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There are times I don’t appreciate the written word.

19 Friday Sep 2014

Posted by Ermilia in Eliabeth

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Tags

facebook, writing

Shocking, I know. But sometimes, writing is not the best method of communication. When I see a post on Facebook announcing a pregnancy or engagement along with the random strangers that person has added to play Farmville, it hurts. I realize those are major life events that have nothing to do with me, but if we’re close friends, I want to celebrate with you privately. I want to hear the joy in your voice, I want to squeal with you and jump up and down. I want to ask questions that you might not want to post on Facebook.

Sometimes, words feels like a sword.

-Eliabeth

Disclaimer: This is not a reflection of any life event. Any similarity to people living or dead is circumstantial. However, please feel free to share your own experiences, especially if said offender doesn’t also read our blog 😉

__graphic design giveaway

18 Friday Jul 2014

Posted by Ermilia in Ermisenda

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authors on a budget, blog banner, ermisenda design, facebook, feebies, free book cover, free book covers, free books, giveaway, graphic design, stories, writing

Previous winner's book cover

Second winner’s book cover

I’m launching another graphic design giveaway! All you need to do is be part of the ErmisendaDESIGN’s Facebook page.

So, what’s up for grabs?
You can win a free graphic design service (valued over $200) of one of the following:

  • Book Cover
  • Blog Banner
  • Facebook Cover

While I have a page full of free book covers, having a uniquely tailored quality book cover for your novel is the ultimate for any author. The winner could be you! The blog banner and Facebook cover do not have to be book related. I can design your banner for a cooking blog or a cover for your landscaping business page on Facebook. I can fulfill virtually any graphic design request!

Click here to enter!

groupbookcovers4 copyThe giveaway will end on the 1st of August, 2013. The winner will be revealed by the 4th! Continue reading →

__graphic design giveaway

20 Wednesday Nov 2013

Posted by Ermilia in Ermisenda

≈ 7 Comments

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authors on a budget, blog banners, ermisenda design, facebook, free book cover, free books, freebies, giveaway, graphic design, stories, writing

Previous winner's book cover

Previous winner’s book cover

I’m launching another graphic design giveaway! All you need to do is be part of the ErmisendaDESIGN’s Facebook page.

So, what’s up for grabs?
You can win a free graphic design service (valued over $200) of one of the following:

  • Book Cover
  • Blog Banner
  • Facebook Cover

While I have a page full of free book covers, having a uniquely tailored quality book cover for your novel is the ultimate for any author. The winner could be you! The blog banner and Facebook cover do not have to be book related. I can design your banner for a cooking blog, or a cover for your landscaping business page on Facebook. I can fulfill virtually any graphic design request!

Click here to enter!

groupbookcovers4 copy

Giveaway prize created for the first winner

Giveaway prize created for the first winner

The giveaway will end on the 4th of December, 2013. The winner will be revealed by the 6th!

Let me know if you come across any issues with Rafflecopter. Leave any questions you may have below! My normal services continue to run (including the free book covers). Never hesitate to email me for a quote!

– Ermisenda Alvarez

__WINNER of the graphic design giveaway

12 Friday Apr 2013

Posted by Ermilia in Announcements, Ermisenda, Free Book Covers

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art, design, facebook, free book cover, freebies, giveaway, graphic design, life, writing

Thank you to everyone who entered the graphic design giveaway!

groupbookcovers4 copyWe have a winner:
Congratulations, Christine Rice! 😀

You have the lovely opportunity to choose between having your very own book cover, blog banner, or Facebook cover designed uniquely for you from scratch. Without costing you a cent (while it’s valued over $200)!

I hope to host another giveaway not so far in the future on behalf of ErmisendaDesign. So keep an eye on my Facebook page and here on Ermilia Blog for future posts. 🙂 Remember, I always have my free book covers and paid services on offer.

Have a great day everyone!

– Ermisenda Alvarez

__graphic design giveaway reminder

09 Tuesday Apr 2013

Posted by Ermilia in Ermisenda

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Tags

art, facebook, free blog banner, free book cover, freebies, giveaway, graphic design, writing

The graphic design giveaway ends in two days. For anyone who has missed out and hasn’t entered, here is another friendly reminder how to. I wouldn’t miss the chance!

So, what’s up for grabs?
You could win a free graphic design service (valued over $200) of one of the following:

  • Book Cover
  • Blog Banner
  • Facebook Cover

While I have a page full of free book covers, having a uniquely tailored quality book cover for your novel is the ultimate for any author. The winner could be you! The blog banner and Facebook cover do not have to be book-related. I can design your banner for a cooking blog, or a cover for your landscaping business page on Facebook. I can fulfill virtually any graphic design request!

Click here to enter!

groupbookcovers4 copy
The giveaway will end on the 12th of April, 2013
. The winner will be revealed the 13th!

This is my first time using Rafflecopter for the giveaway, let me know if you come across any issues. Leave any questions you may have below! My normal services continue to run (including the free book covers). Never hesitate to email me for a quote!

– Ermisenda Alvarez

Picture it & Write Special

03 Sunday Mar 2013

Posted by Ermilia in Eliabeth, Ermisenda, Picture it & Write!

≈ 54 Comments

Tags

community, computer, contribution, digital life, facebook, life, online dating, photography, poetry, story, writing, writing prompt

Today is the anniversary of our first novel, Blind Sight, becoming a publication, so once again, all of the Picture it & Write prompts in March are going to be a little different than usual. This week, we wanted to highlight the writing style we use throughout the series. As some of you may know, each volume is written split into two books, written so you see two sides of a story told through a different character’s point of view.

So without further ado…

We urge people to join in, comment with your paragraph of fiction to accompany the image. It doesn’t have to follow our story or reflect the same themes. It can be a poem or in a different language (please provide a translation). Anyone who wants to join in, is welcome. This photograph will be reblogged under Ermisenda on tumblr and added to the Picture it & Write gallery on Facebook and Pinterest.

Please continue to write however you’re inspired, but add a tag to the beginning of your post if there’s mature content in order to keep Picture it & Write an engaging event for all of our followers.

hand at a computer

“Happy Birthday, Baby. I had a great time last night at the steakhouse. I can’t believe they made you wear a cowboy hat and yell ‘yee haw.’ That’s an image that I’ll never get out of my head. Let’s go to the same place for my birthday.”

Send. Sign out. Sign in.

“Wow Mark. You were amazing last night. Forget my complaint about you not wanting to spend time with my friends. You more than made up for it, ;)”

Send. Sign out. Sign in.

Katherine repeated this process three more times, earning more in an hour at the computer than some people did in a week. She looked nothing like the models she used to post on Facebook. Before taking this job, she would never have thought men would pay to have a woman post “steamy” status updates on their pages, but this generation was quickly becoming socially retarded, if it wasn’t a lost cause already.

– Eliabeth Hawthorne

“When are we going to get to meet her, Mark?”

“Did you do it all night long?”

The second voice parroted one of the group’s favorite movie quotes.

“Shut up,” Mark snapped, defensive. This girl was special. She wasn’t just to keep his bed warm…not that they had even met yet. He had paid for a Facebook girlfriend; he couldn’t help how they met, he knew this wasn’t just work for her. The things she said…she clearly liked him as much as he liked her.

Whenever they conversed, she was so down to earth and real. He’d stared at her Facebook profile photo for hours. She was beautiful, he would caress her face with his cursor for minutes on end.  A model. She was everything he needed a girlfriend to be. A fire had been sparked inside his heart. Maybe she was the one?

– Ermisenda Alvarez

Learn more about Blind Sight or purchase the books. Right now each volume is just 99 cents!

  • Leocardo’s volume by Ermisenda on (Amazon | Barnes&Noble)
  • Aniela’s volume by Eliabeth on (Amazon | Barnes&Noble)

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That Moment

21 Thursday Jun 2012

Posted by Ermilia in Eliabeth

≈ 26 Comments

Tags

book, books, emotion, facebook, Harry Potter, reading

I certainly felt it multiple times through the Harry Potter series.  Most of the books I read, I wouldn’t consider “emotional trauma” but “emotionally overwhelming,” well… there are too many books to list them all.

Have you every felt this?  Which books made you feel this way?

-Eliabeth

Image from The Reader’s Nook Facebook page.

Sincerely, Everyone Who Actually Read It

19 Thursday Apr 2012

Posted by Ermilia in Eliabeth

≈ 12 Comments

Tags

books, facebook, fiction, Frankenstein, funny, John Donne, literature, Mary Shelley, movies, Nathaniel Hawthorne, quotes, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, The Scarlet Letter

I found this image on Facebook, which sparked this:

I realize the play by Peggy Webling used “Frankenstein” to refer to the monster before the movie, but I’m choosing to overlook that minor detail.  😉

-Eliabeth Hawthorne

What other movie adaptations have gotten unsuspecting students in trouble?  Were you caught by any?  Our English teacher actually let us get away with watching original The Scarlet Letter.

Storybook cupcakes

17 Saturday Mar 2012

Posted by Ermilia in Eliabeth

≈ 12 Comments

Tags

books, cupcakes, facebook, funny

Now that’s a treat worthy of a book release party!

-Eliabeth

Source: Penguin Books Australia on Facebook

How much money have we wasted on virtual goods?

04 Saturday Feb 2012

Posted by Ermilia in Eliabeth

≈ 14 Comments

Tags

Castleville, facebook, Farmville, Gary Vanderchuck, social media, Sorority Life, The Thank You Economy

As part of my job for CardLab, I’m reading The Thank You Economy which talks about the right way to promote yourself and your brand across social media platforms.  If you’re an author or budding author and you haven’t read this book you need to.  You’re going to need to jump on the social media bandwagon just like the bigger businesses, but I’ll save that discussion for a review of the book.

At one point, the author Gary Vanderchuck talks about people spending money to tend a virtual farm and I scoffed until I realized that I’ve done the same thing, just not on Farmville.  I’ve had to have the latest gown on Sorority Life and though I don’t tend a virtual farm, I’m playing the medieval spin-off CastleVille.  I guess you could budget it under entertainment.  Instead of going to see a movie, you spend money on a game just like any other game (Maple Story being one of the ones I was VERY into for a while).

Have you paid for virtual goods?  Did you feel it was justified as entertainment or did you regret it later?  Have you tended a virtual farm?

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