January Monthly Roundup: Review Requests, New Releases, Filipino Special

I really don’t want to say time flies… yet it does, alas. 🕚 So here we are again at the end of the month, which also means it’s back to the monthly grind at work for me. Before that, though, here’s a recap of bookish news and whatnot for January! 📚

Blog News

I’m still not entirely caught up with my TBR pile (c’mon, let’s be real, who doesn’t have a mountain for their TBR 🤣) but as I’ve mentioned a while back, I’m now open to taking book review requests, both directly and through Scripts and Reviews.

I meant to showcase my first review within January, but offline matters have prevented me from being online for as much as I wanted to. Stay tuned for February, though! 🥳

Book Releases

If you’re on Twitter (and if you are, let’s be moots? 🥂) and you’re following an indie author, you probably know about (and have had enough of 😅) these #writerslift things that are going up on a fairly regular basis. I find them a neat way to meet and connect with other authors, though, as well as help promote their work. However, to keep from spamming everyone’s feeds, I’ve decided to keep my own #writerslift tweets on a monthly basis beginning… well, last Sunday, when I put up my official January #writerslift.

Hey, #writingcommunity! It's time for our monthly #writerslift 🥂 Share your #books and #blogs and let's celebrate each other's work! Don't just drop and leave though; comments and RTs will go a long way. 💖#shamelessselfpromosunday #booktwt #bookrecommendations pic.twitter.com/aMeQiDhW97

— Marie Sinadjan (@notanybunny) January 30, 2022

That said, here are some of the books I learned had been released in January. It’s not a long list because I hadn’t really been actively looking — again, due to offline circumstances — but feel free to let me know if you have any and I’ll be happy to add it to this list. Or to add you to February’s, which is a post that’ll be coming up next! 😇

• Ang Huling Sagrada by Daniel de Guzman, 22 January
• Crystalloids Keepers: Aferna and the Revenge of Wickostadia by Jonathan Oliver Alarilla, 23 January
• Greek Heir to Claim Her Heart by Jennifer Faye, 25 January
• Pour It On (Keystone Couples 2) by Staci Troilo, 28 January
• After Io (Far Light Series 1) by Elliott Wink, 31 January
• Einstein in the Attic by Dana Dargos and Said Al Bizri, 31 January

The Filipino Special

I hadn’t planned on doing one of these at all, but I came to know about a bunch of upcoming releases and meet more authors from my home country, so I thought I’d give them a boost too 🥳 Strangely enough, I don’t have much of a connection with the local writing community at the moment — probably because my book isn’t related to the Philippines yet — but I hope to rectify that with these linkages as well as some projects I’m currently involved in. (Which I’ll talk more about in February 🤫)

And how could I not, when these writers are really nice and cool? Plus pogi points, as we say here 😉

• Of Myths and Men by Catherine Dellosa (release announcement and cover reveal)
• Ang Huling Sagrada and Crystalloids Keepers by Daniel de Guzman and Jonathan Oliver Alarilla (book launches and release announcement)
• Saviors of the Sun by J. L. Estilo (release announcement)
• Tablay the Graphic Novel by Katrina F. Olan and Paul Medalla (release announcement)
• Renato Tranquilino (author spotlight)

That’s it for me this month, friends! 😘 How about you, what have you been to up lately?

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