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Tales and Tea Blog


AI or Not to AI
Hola Merfolk! As I get ready to republish The MerSea Series, I have decided to create my own book covers using Photoshop. I had my last book cover, The Denizen’s Stone, made by a professional who did not use AI. However, she did make ads for me using AI as you can see above. My formatter added an AI photo to the title page. In the last ten years, stock photos have become dull. There are AI photos now that are colorful and show romantic couples. Having AI pictures for a parano
Melissa Ceseña
May 154 min read


Three Things
Hola Merfolk! What should you expect from my books? There are three things you will find in my stories. 1. A Happily Ever After 2. Compassion 3. Well-researched A Happily Ever After is also known as an HEA. Most of my books will be romances. With the romance genre, readers expect some kind of commitment between the main couple by the end of the book. It’s 2026, they don’t have to get married. Ways to show they are committed to each other are through an “I love you,” or saying
Melissa Ceseña
Apr 32 min read


What To Expect
Hola Merfolk! I’m Melissa Ceseña, and I am a paranormal romance author. Here’s what to expect from my Tales and Tea blog . Most blogs are supposed to be about one topic, but mine will be about more than one. A well-rounded point of view is necessary to finding correlations through diverse topics. I do a lot of research through reading, videos, and events. Connecting the dots to me means not just researching mermaids and the ocean for my books. As I researched mermaids, too ma
Melissa Ceseña
Mar 242 min read
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