Philippine Speculative Fiction volume 9 is finally here! Check out Kevin Roque's beautiful cover for the book:


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COMICS IN PROSE. I am deliriously happy today because my story, "The Secret Origin of Spin-Man" (which previously appeared in Philippine Speculative Fiction IV) is now up online at Anna Tambour's site as the July feature of her Virtuous Medlar Circle. Anna Tambour's one of my favorite short story authors (she wrote such beautiful and memorable ( Read more... )

IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR! Reposting this from HERE. Calling all Pinoy writers! Please read:

Editors Nikki Alfar and Vin Simbulan are now accepting submissions of short fiction pieces for consideration for the anthology "PHILIPPINE SPECULATIVE FICTION V"Speculative fiction is the literature of wonder that spans the genres of fantasy, science fiction ( Read more... )

PHILIPPINE SPECULATIVE FICTION IV launched last Saturday at Fully Booked, and I had a really awesome time there. I got to meet a lot of interesting authors--Paolo Jose Cruz, Isabel Yap, sir Carljoe Javier--and more, plus I got to hang out with a whole bunch of fellow Litcritters.

It was great to finally see Crystal Koo in person (I'd been ( Read more... )

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WRITING PAINS: For the past few months, I've been banging my head against the wall to come up with a decent entry for the latest Litcritters writing challenge. It goes: Science Fiction, minimum 4k words, and must be plotty. "Plotty" meaning chock-full of plot: lots of things happen; much more than just a sequence or two of character action--it's a ( Read more... )

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