Interview with Mariane Reign

 Mariane Reign was only fifteen when her first book got out to the market (probably making her the youngest tagalog romance writer!). Her debut novel, "Grow Old With You" was immediately followed by "Race Me To Your Heart". This talented young writer will be graduating from high school this March.


1.)You're already a writer at age fifteen. How do you feel about that?
-Somehow, I feel delighted and very much thankful. For me it's one of the greatest achievement I've ever had. I consider it a miracle already Though there are times I feel insecure with other writers. Is it normal? Oh yeah. I'm an abnormal
Critics and readers make me flushed and all red whenever they tell me I wrote a nice story. I mean, it's like, writing is not my life but still, my writing touches lives.


2.)When did you start crafting stories?
-If you mean writing stories, I started with fan fictions when I was nine. They were written in script-type though. I posted them in a site. Hindi ko alam kung bakit ako napunta sa pagsusulat ng nobela..hahaha. When I was in third year, I wrote a 172 pages playwright. It was a love story. And someone actually volunteered to print it out and bind it into one for free. Then they told me to try writing novels


3.)Who inspired you to write?
-My friends, primarily. Since most of them are quite fond of reading tagalog novels, they pushed me to write one, two and more. I didn't expect they'd like it though since I had no experience in writing such things. In my first try, I judged it a crap. But my friends liked it so I made two more that were clearer than the first one. And so Grow Old with You and Race Me to Your Heart were born.
4.)What do you do to beat writer's block?
-Writer's block? I thought that existed too. But since myriad of writers had told me it doesn't exist, I erased that from my vocabulary. If I'm not in the mood to write, I read, watch T.V, talk and talk, listen to songs and daydream. Somehow it works.


5.)10 years from now, what do you see for yourself?
-Honestly? It's unpredictable. It's either I'd be a psychologist treating people or I'd be a writer writing for the people. Right now it's 50-50. I think wherever I am at that time would be the place where I'd belong forever.

Interview with Karen Dee

 Karen Dee's debut book got accepted by Precious Pages Corporation last November. Here's a brief interview with her.

1.) Tell me something about your first book.

The title of my first book is "Age is only a Number." Basically, we are very fond of the ideal relationship wherein the boy is older than a girl. So my story here is about a lady bounded by her past love life. Her life was focused on her career when he met a guy, who is a friend of his little brother. She doesn't want to be accompanied by him but the guy didn't want to leave her alone...

2.) How long did it take you to write it?

Three or four days. I forgot.

3.)What was your initial reaction when it got accepted?

I was surprised...I'm speechless. I felt the need to read the acceptance notice again and again. I couldn't absorb the fact that my manuscript was accepted.

4.)Where do you get your inspirations?

First of all, I really wanted to write. It was my passion ever since I'm in Elementary. I was dreaming of becoming a writer someday but never really imagined that I can be at this point of time! My very true friend was the one who lighted the way for me. She told me about her manuscript being accepted and encouraged me to submit mine too. And so, I did. My other inspiration was my sister. She is indeed my number one fan. I am very grateful for her - for not being tired on reading my manuscripts and giving me more encouragements to pursue my writing.

5.)Any future plans for your writing career?

I have so many plans!! I wanted to write a book of my own. I wanted to write a true-to-life story book and something inspirational. But I guess, it takes a lot of hard work and dedication.