Blank-Paper & Me

New blog post! Talking about my #Campnanowrimo experience.

Hello friends! I hope you are all doing well and I really hope you had a lovely week. If not, hey, at least the work week is over now! For today’s blog, I thought I’d talk a little bit about my Camp NaNo experience this past month of April. I decided to re-edit my science fiction novel, titled Project Angelus, because there were some big picture items that weren’t really working in this novel,…

New blog post! Here is the final compilation of poems from the Ethereal Dreams poem reading series on my channel. 💚✨ #poetry #indiepoet

Hello everyone! Finally, it’s here! My new poetry book, Ethereal Dreams has been published! I have also completed my series of poem readings, where I read 10 poems from Ethereal Dreams for you on my author channel, Blank Paper & Me, in preparation for the book release. Here is the final compilation of poems! You can also find all the poems from this series on my channel in their own…

New blog post! Here's the compilation of all the poems I shared last week.

Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing well. As we enter into the release week of my new poetry book, Ethereal Dreams, I will be sharing a poem reading every night on my author channel Blank Paper & Me, from today Monday until Thursday April 20th, the day of the release. In today’s blog, I’m sharing a compilation of all the poems I shared last week, so you can have them all in a single place…

New Blog Post 💜✨

Hello everyone! I hope you had a lovely week, coming out of spring break. Many of you celebrated a Christian holiday, as well, I hope you had some time to reflect and get connected to your faith. 💜 This past week I started sharing some poetry with you on my author channel, Blank Paper & Me, and in this blog I want to compile the poems I’ve shared so far. In the weeks leading up to the release of…

Hello, everyone! It’s been a minute! I hope you are all doing well. ❤ 2022 was a strange year for me, putting it mildly. I have to say, I faced a lot of challenges. Some of them unexpected, other… more expected, and yet entirely disappointing. I will not bore you with the details, but I will summarize it by saying that it was a challenging and VERY transformative year. In the end, I emerged our…

Do people feel angry at the success of others? Why? My thoughts

Hello, everyone! It’s been a long time! How are you? I’m happy to share this post with you today. 💜 This week, one of my university professors told the class that people usually feel angry at the success of others; that no one wants to see other people succeed, which is why we need to keep our plans and our achievements to ourselves. Because no one wants to see that. Do you think that’s true?…

Reading my poem: Things that thrive in Winter

Hi, loves! In this blog post, I am reading for you another one of my poems: Things that thrive in Winter. This poem is included in my collection, EPHEMERAL, out now! EPHEMERAL will be available for free in Kindle Unlimited until March 5, 2022, so take advantage of that deal and read it now. 💙 I recently made a series reading five of fifty poems included in EPHEMERAL, leading up to the release…

Reading my poem: Stardust light

Hi loves! I hope you have been well ✨ In this blog I am reading for you my poem: Stardust Light. Stardust Light is one of the first poems you will find inside my poetry collection, EPHEMERAL, which is now available for sale. EPHEMERAL will be available to read for free for those who have Kindle Unlimited, until March 5, 2022. Stardust light is a poem about the spark inside us that makes us…

Aww 💜💜💜 I’m so happy to hear that 💜💜💜I’ve had a very difficult day today, after I found out there is a huge formatting error in my paperback version of The Crystal Conjurer, and I already paid for this formatting LAST year, so I can’t do anything about it anymore. 

I just didn’t notice there was an entire chapter repeated (chapter 18). I’ve been trying to edit the paperback PDF myself with Affinity publisher all afternoon, but I’m new to the program and haven’t been able to fix anything because I still don’t know how to use it... This is so upsetting to me because if I would have noticed sooner--if I would have gone through the entire book when I was still working with the formatter and cover designer back in 2020--this would not have happened... I’m just thinking about how there’s people out there owning a version of my paperback book with a repeated chapter in it and it breaks my heart because this book means so much to me...

Reading my poem: A song to the night 

This poem is included in my collection EPHEMERAL, out tomorrow! 

Tomorrow is also my birthday, so we share birthdays. This book child of mine and me.

I hope you like it, and please, if you do, subscribe to my channel and share my video/interact with my video. It helps a lot! 

Thank you for watching, and I will see you soon,

María

Ps. I will soon be selling signed paperbacks of this book on my website, and I’ll give away a beautiful keychain along with your purchase, so if you would rather get a signed paperback, stay tuned to any of my social media (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook) to see when they become available on my website. 

Reading my poetry: Moonlight Walk

Hello! Here is poem #2 in this little series I’m doing in the days leading up to the release of my poetry collection, Ephemeral (out December 6, 2021). This point is the first poem in the book! And it’s also one of my favorites. Moonlight Walk is actually inspired by a dream I had during a Harvest Moon night. It was such a magical, spiritual dream, and it felt real and powerful. So naturally I…

Reading my poem: Moonlight Walk

I hope you like it! ✨

This poem is included in my poetry collection, Ephemeral (out December 6). Ephemeral is still available for pre-order as an ebook. Click here to pre-order.

Thanks a lot for watching, and please watch the video on YouTube or at least hit the like button on YouTube as it helps people discover the video (the algorithm hides videos when there is no interaction) so please share this video if you like it! See you soon and blessed be,

María

Reading my poem: New Moon’s Night

Hi everyone! This week leading up to the release day of my poetry collection (6th of December), Ephemeral, I will be reading 5 poems included in the book! I started off yesterday with a poem titled “New Moon’s Night”. This poem forms part of the third interval in the collection, which is the final division of the book. The third interval looks at themes of healing and light, and also some more…

This poem is included in my poetry collection, Ephemeral, releasing December 6, 2021. This book is currently available for pre-order in ebook format, here.

Book announcement! My first poetry collection

Hello everyone! Haven’t posted in a while. I hope you are all doing well! I come here with an exciting announcement: I have a new book coming out! This time it’s a poetry collection–my first poetry collection. If you’ve been following me, then you know I am also a poet (you can read some of my poems on my website here) and I have been thinking, for over a year now, whether or not I should…

Writing as a non-negotiable habit, and how it can help you succeed

Hello everyone, I hope you’ve had a wonderful week, and if it’s been rough, like mine, then you have my sympathy! We’re definitely in this together. In this blog I’m going to be talking about non-negotiable habits, and how they can make you a better writer. Specifically, setting writing and/or editing goals to meet every day in order to make steady progress. If you’ve been reading my blog, then…