visprint launches dwellers + three more books

My heartfelt gratitude to Powerbooks, Ms. Nida Ramirez, Kyra Ballesteros, and the rest of Visprint; artist Aldy Aguirre for creating great art for my book, fellow authors Paolo Chikiamco, Karl De Mesa, and Dean Francis Alfar; fellow Alternative Alamat contributors, and the people who took the time to drop by the launch, listen, chat, buy books and have their copies of Dwellers signed. Thank you very much!

Dwellers is available now in all Metro Manila, Bulacan, Rizal and Cavite branches of National Book Store and Powerbooks Store, as well as Uno Morato in Quezon City.

For those outside Luzon, copies are also making their way to your book stores.

Photos! I wasn’t able to take a lot of photos, but I thoroughly enjoyed Paolo’s short talk about the rationale behind Alternative Alamat (How come we know more about Greek myths than our own myths?) and the contributors’ individual stories behind their stories, Dean’s advice to new writers (summary: the mechanism is all there, all you have to do is actually sit down and write!), and Karl’s showbiz tsismis. (Talagang yung tsismis yung nag-stand out sa akin ano.)

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After the event, celebrating with Jaykie and some ciders.

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I also got copies of the books launched that day. Grateful for the heartfelt messages.

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Beautiful covers!

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Here’s a closer look at Dwellers. I’m loving the size — it’s small enough to fit in your back pocket.

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Early reviews from readers are positive and encouraging. :)

For more information about the book, please click here. For questions about availability, kindly contact the publisher.

Thanks, and happy reading!!!

EXCERPT: Dwellers by Eliza Victoria | The Galvanizers

http://www.thegalvanizers.com/excerpt-dwellers-eliza-victoria/

Can’t wait for Friday? Read an excerpt from Dwellers in the maiden issue of online magazine The Galvanizers. My thanks to Bea and Isa for inviting me to be a part of this.

Happy reading, and see you at the launch on July 25!

 

Note: Early announcements pegged the launch date on July 19 — Visprint had to move it because of the storm. Stay safe and dry!

UPDATE: visprint to launch four books on july 25

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See you on July 25 (moved from July 19 due to Typhoon Glenda) at Powerbooks Greenbelt, 4 PM onwards, for the launch of Dwellers and three other Visprint titles.

Come for the books, stay for the excerpt reading, Q & A, and signing.

How To Traverse Terra Incognita, a collection of short stories by Dean Francis Alfar is now available in Uno Morato and Metro Manila book stores.

Dwellers by Eliza Victoria (fantasy, mystery)

Radiant Void by Karl de Mesa (non-fiction)

Alternative Alamat edited by Paolo Chikiamco (anthology)

dwellers by eliza victoria — coming soon from visprint

Dwellers by Eliza Victoria (Cover)

Dwellers by Eliza Victoria

Novel in English
Horror/Fantasy/Crime/Suspense

Rule No. 1: You don’t kill the body you inhabit.
Rule No. 2: You should never again mention your previous name.
Rule No. 3: You don’t ever talk about your previous life. Ever.

Two young men with the power to take over another body inhabit the bodies and lives of brothers Jonah and Louis. The takeover leads to a car crash, injuring Jonah’s legs and forcing them to stay in the brothers’ house for the time being.

The street is quiet. The neighbors aren’t nosy. Everything is okay.

They are safe, for now.

Until they find a dead body in the basement.

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Cover art and design by Aldy Aguirre
Coming soon from Visprint Inc.

kritika kultura reading series: fiction

Payment for reading fiction = books. Love it!

I spent Monday afternoon in Ateneo de Manila University reading from my novel and talking about writing stories and my crazy what-ifs.  Thank you thank you Mark Cayanan and Vincenz Serrano for the invite, and thank you to the students who dropped by.

From KK’s Twitter account: https://twitter.com/KulturaKritika

The high point for me was when students approached me after the reading and said they CANNOT WAIT to read the book and find out what happens next. I think it generated some excitement, and I’m thinking of doing the reading again when the book launches, hopefully next year.

Oh, and the working title of the novel is Dwellers.

Are you ready, ready, ready?