Day: August 13, 2012

‘a bottle of storm clouds’ now available in fully booked, bibliarch, pandayan

A BOTTLE OF STORM CLOUDS

ISBN: 971-0545-15-5
Filipiniana, Fiction
SRP: Php220.00
Cover design and illustrations by Karen Francisco

Award-winning author Eliza Victoria mixes magic with the mundane in this special concoction of 16 short stories. A girl meets a young man with the legs of a chicken. A boy is employed by a goddess running a pawnshop. A group of teenagers are trapped in an enchanted forest for 900 days. A man finds himself in an MRT station beyond Taft, a station that was not supposed to exist. A student claims to have seen the last few digits of pi. Someone’s sister gets abducted by mermaids.

Includes stories that have appeared in the critically acclaimed anthologies Philippine Speculative Fiction and Alternative Alamat, and stories that have won prizes in the Philippines Free Press Literary Awards and the Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio Literary Contest.

Take this bottle of storm clouds and explore the worlds within.

NOW available in the following outlets, for P220.00 only:

Fully Booked – The Fort, Greenhills Promenade, Gateway Mall, SM Mall of Asia, The Block North EDSA, Rockwell, Shangri-la, Greenbelt 5, Trinoma

Bibliarch – Glorietta 3 and Waltermart Pasong Tamo

Pandayan Bookshop – Metro Manila branches

VERY SOON in National Book Store, Powerbooks Store and all other provincial branches. The books are already in transit :)

(Via Visprint)

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flipside y.a. authors in the manila bulletin

Here’s an article (“Why YA?”) by Ronald S. Lim in the Manila Bulletin, featuring Kwentillion and the YA titles by Flipside Publishing.

If sales, movie adaptations, and growing fanbases are anything to go by, then one can definitely say that the genre of young adult (YA) literature has come into its own.

This popularity isn’t confined Stateside either. Aside from the variety of YA titles crowding the country’s bookstores, authors like Lauren Kate, Lauren Oliver, Alyson Noel, and Andy Mulligan have held successful signing events here in the country.

With such an obvious audience in the country for this particular genre, why aren’t there more YA works, written by Filipino creators, published in the country? This is the question two different groups are seeking to address.

Kwentillion, the country’s first and only magazine that caters specifically to young adult, science fiction, and fantasy penned by Filipino writers and artists, recently held the Young Adult Readers Carnival (YARC), which aims to become a tentpole event for the local YA community.

For its part, ebook publisher Flipside Publishing is releasing three new YA novels entitled “Woman in a Frame” by Raissa Falgui, “The Viewless Dark” by Eliza Victoria, and “Voices in the Theater” by Aileen Santos. All titles are available in Adobe DRM and ePUB formats on flipreads.com.

Read more.