THE SWEET TASTE OF HORROR. Ghosts, zombies, kapres, elementals, religious manifestations, techno-horrors, drug scares, witches and everything in between--this book has everything you need to get a horror fan excited (and scared.) If you've ever sampled the work of Yvette Tan before (her stories have appeared in numerous anthologies over the past ( Read more... )

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... )

PROSE FERMENTS LIKE WINE. I've been trying to reorganize my computer files for the past few days; my own little rebellion against the chaotic load of work that I've been dealing with lately. This defiance has reaped a few interesting rewards--I've found a couple of old stories and poems that I wrote a while back ( 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... )

QUESTION AND ANSWER: In preparation for the upcoming Fully Booked and Neil Gaiman-sponsored contest, The 3rd Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards, Bibliophile Stalker Charles has put up interviews with last years winners. Joseph Nacino, Andrew Drilon and Ian Casocot. We share our thoughts on our winning entries, cool moments, and advice for upcoming ( Read more... )

SOMETHING I FORGOT TO BLOG ABOUT -- My short story, "Peekli", (a fairy-tale-ish story that was anthologized in Philippine Speculative Fiction III), is now online at Bewildering Stories, and has also made the Editor's Choice list of last year's Quarterly Review . I'm so proud of this little story, not only because it has done so much, but also ( 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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