11 | July | 2012 | elizavictoria.com

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It’s common in most fields of entertainment to have, on the one hand, critics awards – think the Oscars – where winners are decided by a panel of judges or committee of experts, and on the other hand, popular awards – think the MTV Movie Awards (once nominees are decided) – where the winners are determined by fan vote. In the Philippines, published literature has always been the province of the National Book Awards, but there has never really been an equivalent popular awards for literature.

Until now!

As part of the upcoming 2nd Filipino Reader Con, the Filipino Book Bloggers will be holding the 1st ever Filipino Readers’ Choice Awards:

The Filipino Readers’ Choice Awards seeks to engage the Filipino reading public in honoring their favorite Philippine-published titles. An initiative of the Filipino Book Bloggers Group, the Filipino RCA was established to develop awareness and appreciation of Philippine literature; recognize the reader’s role in creating the meaning and experience of a literary work; and give the readers a voice in the Philippine book industry.

Nominations are open from July 9 to 22. To nominate a book, just fill out the online nomination form. The nomination form gets sent to the Filipino RCA committee.

Nominations will be posted on the Filipino ReaderCon website on a weekly basis. Links to reviews of nominated titles will also be posted on the site.

The awards are open to titles published in the Philippines from January 2010 to December 2011, in the following categories:

Children’s picture book

Chick lit

Novel in English

Novel in Filipino

Comics / Graphic novels

Short story anthology

Essay anthology

Poetry

Get to it! :D

The Viewless Dark is now on Amazon.

Do check it out and share the link. I’m quite proud of this novella and I hope you enjoy reading it.

Book Description

Publication Date: July 9, 2012

When Anthony found Flo dead, locked overnight in one of the reading rooms of the university library, he knew it must have something to do with Mary. Mary Prestosa, fourth year graduating Philosophy student, whom they had been investigating. Mary, who surprised her roommate one night by suddenly standing up from her bed, throwing the windows open, and jumping down, headfirst, to the dormitory grounds below. Mary, whose memory marked the trail of mysterious deaths and bizarre occurrences that followed her own fateful fall: the fifth-year Computer Engineering student who prowled the campus on all fours, thirsty for blood, believing he was a wolf; the revelation of an all-girls’ satanic cult; the demonic possession of a fourth-year student from the Department of Psychology; and now—Flo, dead.

The students traced it all to Mary. They believed Mary didn’t commit suicide. They believed Mary tapped into something dark, and released it, and was consumed.

And Anthony was determined to pry out the truth.

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