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Hello! I'm Mayumi Cruz. You're receiving this email because you signed up to CruiZings, my monthly curated newsletter about creativity, productivity and positivity, as well as author and artist news. Thank you for being here. 
Before anything else, I just want to say, Thank You to all of you who'd stick it out with me up to now. I've had a minor operation, of which result was, thankfully, benign, aside from other health concerns. It's a struggle to even write nowadays, but I'm trying. I hope you can bear with me and my shortcomings.  
August 2022

Positivity

I made this infographic about 6 simple self-care tips for older ADHD writers out of my newest blog post. Feel free to download and print. Just click the image.

 

Creativity

The Snowflake Method of outlining a novel basically starts from a one-sentence summary. In concise, simple terms, the 5 basic steps of this method popularized by Randy Ingermanson is explained HERE.

 

Productivity

Notion is a popular app used by writers to write their novel. Author Brittany Wang teaches YouTube tutorials and gives away Free Notion templates for members of her website.

Author News


I've gone back to Wattpad to help rekindle the muse faster.


HIS KIND OF DIFFERENT is my YA romance/coming of age story written in English. For the sake of my Filipino readers, I will be translating it to Filipino-English as well.


BLURB: HIS KIND OF DIFFERENT 

“Beauty pageants are overrated, frivolous, and a total waste of time and money."
 
Sophia Montano's careless, cynical remark earns her teacher/former beauty queen's ire and becomes the catalyst which sparked a new, unique concept of beauty contest in their school.

Of course, Sophia is a contestant herself. She has to, or she will not graduate in high school.

The school pageant requires the anti-social, introvert senior to work side by side with Mike Rubio, the most popular guy in school. Along with several students, they have to participate in a community service project involving cancer-stricken children.

Slowly, unexpectedly, she rediscovers herself and learns some valuable lessons on people, friendship, life, and love.

But Sophia has a well-kept, terrible secret which was in danger of being exposed to the whole school by the one person who knew about it---unless she backs out of the pageant.

Torn between the need to save herself and the welfare of the children she has grown fond of, she has to make a stand: Will she be brave enough to right the wrong she committed, at the risk of losing the crown, and worse, the boy she loves?

Artist News

When words failed me, I turned to colors. Here are my latest paintings created with acrylic and mixed media. They're also available for purchase. I ship internationally. For inquiries, you may send me a message. Browse GALERIE MAYUMI for more artworks.

Free Books!

FREE BOOKS - August 11, 2022 ONLY


Once again, I've joined a bunch of your favourite Instalove authors to bring you FREE ebooks for ONE day only.

On August 11, 2022 we will be giving away FREE books - no strings attached. No Lists to sign up for. Just lists of free books, organised into links to your preferred retailer.
 
I have 3 books to be given away on that day: Finding Kismet, It's Not Just Semantics, and The Billionaire's Widow. Grab them before August 11 ends!

Get Free Books here: www.urbookbubble.com/instalove.
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Mayumi Cruz is an author who writes mixed and multiple genres of romance, suspense, fantasy, sci fi, and more. Her books include Aquosvegna: The Trident of PowerChroma Hearts, The Billionaire's Widow, and other books.
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