Category: Philippine History

• Give Mom a Book She’ll Enjoy on Mother’s Day

  Give Mom a Book She’ll Enjoy for Mother’s Day– The Iron Butterfly by Rosalinda R Morgan Mother’s Day is May 8 this year. What a great idea to present her with a book about a young mother unconditional love for her nine young children and the great sacrifice she made to keep them all together…

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  28 Apr 2016

  #amblogging, #Books, #Love, Blogging, Historical Fiction, Mother’s Day, Philippine Culture, Single Parenthood

• Would You Still Write A Story – Even If You Knew It Would Never Be Read by A Single Person?

  I saw this question at LinkedIn. First of all, that is the most negative thing I have heard a writer say. If you are a good writer and you have an interesting thing to say, someone out there will read your writings. If you are a writer which you claim to be, you write. That…

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  13 Apr 2016

  #amblogging, #amwriting, #Author’s Life, #Inspirational, #PositiveThinking, Blogging, Good Writing, Writer’s Goal

• Today is International Women’s Day

  Salute to all the women on International Women’s Day! Today, I want to honor my grandmother for her courage and daring ambition to be the best she could be given the circumstance she was in at that time.  She was the inspiration for my latest book, “The Iron Butterfly”. She was a feminist before the word came…

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  8 Mar 2016

  #amwriting, #Books, #Feminism, #PositiveThinking, Biography, Blogging, Historical Fiction, Philippine Culture, Single Parenthood

• Book Giveaways – “The Iron Butterfly”

  Enter for a chance to win 1 of 3 signed First Edition copies of “The Iron Butterfly” by Rosalinda R Morgan. Here is the link: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/170929-the-iron-butterfly, Giveaways end March 15, 2016. The Iron Butterfly is a gripping tale about the intense devotion and ordeal of Regina Buendia, a young mother who suddenly finds herself all…

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  1 Mar 2016

  #amwriting, #Author’s Life, #Books, #Feminism, Blogging, Book Promotion, Goodreads, Historical Fiction, Memoirs, Single Parenthood

• 2016 New Year’s Resolutions

  It’s that time of year again when we have to think of our goals for 2016. Below are my resolutions for 2016. It can apply to all writers who want to improve their craft and make 2016 a successful year. Edit my manuscript. After finishing the NANOWRIMO challenge for 2015, I put the manuscript aside…

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  1 Jan 2016

  #Author’s Life, #Books, Blogging, Book Promotion, Good Writing, New Year, Positive Thinking, Reading Challenge, Writer’s Goal

• CHAMPAGNE ANYONE?

    Another year has gone by. Out with the old and in with the new. Tonight we are celebrating the New Year and what a better time to pop the cork and drink champagne or sparkling wine for that matter. Before we run to the store, you might want to know the label lingo to…

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  31 Dec 2015

  Author’s Life, Blogging, HOLIDAYS, New Year

• Special Offer of BAHALA NA (Come What May) to end Dec. 31, 2015

  Kindle copy of “Bahala Na (Come What May)” at a discount price of $.99 will end soon. Special Offer ends in 4 days on Dec. 31, 2015. Get your copy today at www.amazon.com/author/rosalindarmorgan before the price goes up again. A great winter read for history buffs! “BAHALA NA (COME WHAT MAY)” – a novel about…

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  28 Dec 2015

  #Books, BAHALA NA (Come What May), Blogging, Book Promotion, Historical Novels, Philippine History, War in the Philipines, WWII

• MY LILLIPUT LANE COLLECTION

  Some people have Dept. 56 collection. I have a Lilliput Lane Collection. It all started when I saw that little house in a Carroll Reed catalogue years ago. Usually, the catalogue only advertised fine quality clothes but in one of their catalogues, I noticed a Lilliput Lane house. I fell in love with the English…

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  25 Dec 2015

  Author’s Life, Blogging, Christmas, Decorating for the Holidays, HOLIDAYS

• Lo, How A Rose E’er Blooming

  Lo, how a rose e’er blooming, From tender stem hath sprung! Of Jesse’s lineage coming, As men of old have sung; It came, a flow’ret bright, Amid the cold of winter, When half spent was the night.   Isaiah ‘twas foretold it, The Rose I have in mind, With Mary we behold it, The Virgin…

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  23 Dec 2015

  Blogging, Christmas, HOLIDAYS, Motivational Verse

  Christmas, Christmas Legends, Holidays, Inspirational

• The story of The Iron Butterfly begins

  Eighty-seven years ago today, on Dec. 22, 1928, the story of The Iron Butterfly begins. Regina Buendia’s husband suffers a stomachache and the next day, two days before Christmas, he dies. The Iron Butterfly is a gripping tale about the intense devotion and ordeal of Regina Buendia, a young mother who suddenly finds herself all…

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  22 Dec 2015

  Blogging, Books, Christmas, Goodreads, Historical Novels, HOLIDAYS, Philippine Culture, Positive Thinking, Single Parenthood