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I have an interview with Rocket Kapre about Lower Myths over here. The cover looks pretty cool with the colors inverted, no?

“Lower Myths” can currently be purchased at Amazon or Flipreads.

Photo credit: Karen Lucero of the National Book Development Board.

‘lower myths’ now available on flipreads

Adobe DRM/EPUB format. Come on over.

‘lower myths’ launched

We interrupt this program for a quick announcement.

My book, Lower Myths, is now available for purchase on Amazon.com.

Below are the details, which can also be found on this page. Feel free to share the link or re-post! And do buy and read the book, if you are so inclined. Excerpts are over here.

Thank you!

Lower Myths features two compelling novelettes of contemporary fantasy from Eliza Victoria, one of the most talented young writers in Asian speculative fiction today.

In “Trust Fund Babies”, children of two warring witch and fairy families face off in the final round to a centuries-old vendetta.

In “The Very Last Case of Messrs. Aristotel and Arkimedes Magtanggol”, an aristocrat and his daughter consult a famous lawyer-sibling pair about a mysterious crime. But in the lawyers’ hilltop mansion by the sea, they uncover sinister hints that their reality may not be what it seems.

Eliza Victoria’s fiction and poetry have appeared in various publications including High Chair, The Pedestal Magazine, Expanded Horizons, Usok, and the Philippine Speculative Fiction series.

Publisher: Flipside Publishing

Release Date: March 27, 2012

Now available for online purchase

Amazon.com (MOBI)

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Back from Ilocos! And drowning in work emails!

But first, some quick links:

“Needle Rain” Part 2 can now be read on PGS Online

“When words are enough”, an article about the poetry reading at the Ayala Triangle Gardens

And a preview of the Ilocos blog posts I will be drafting (once I get through all the work emails):

My poem, “Elegy for the corridors“, can now be read online on the Philippines Free Press website.

Also, Paolo Chikiamco links us to this review of Alternative Alamat by Jaymee Goh:

ALTERNATIVE ALAMAT
OK, if you only read one anthology all year, please let this one be it. I’d like to have this one in hardcopy, actually. Anyway. There’re a few appendices talking about mythology and researching / recording mythology in the Philippines. I wish there also had been a glossary of the deities featured in the stories, but they’re major deities, and it really is a “For Flipinos” sort of anthology in this way.

“Ana’s Little Pawnshop On Makiling St.”
This story is about Anagolay, now called Ana, told from the perspective of Eric, who finds himself employed by Ana in her little pawnshop, which she now runs, and sells the unclaimed things that appear in her closet. It’s a delightful magical realist sort of story, where the gods mingle with mortals, and Ana’s pawnshop is in the middle of a block owned by Mariang Makiling, another local goddess, who is now a stockholder. Ana doesn’t really need Eric around, but she gets a bit lonely, as gods probably would do, and so through Eric we get a glimpse into how the extraordinary meets the ordinary in different ways. Things come to a head when development happens. The story doesn’t really resolve itself, but there’s a bittersweet farewell, a gift that was foreshadowed. I just find this story utterly charming (“I’ve poured the nebulae here. They’ve been busy. Look how many stars they’ve made!”) and a wonderful start to the anthology in general. Re-reading it makes me smile.

Thank you for the kind words, Jaymee. :) Read more.

sneak peek: lower myths by eliza victoria

I am proud and happy to announce that my two-novelette collection, Lower Myths, which won in the 2009 Pinoy Story Writing Contest for the Horror & Crime/Suspense category, will (very) soon be published as an ebook by Flipreads under Flipside Publishing Services.

Many thanks to Flipside VP and General Manager Honey de Peralta for approaching me about the possibility of partnering with them, Acquisitions Editor Kristine Reynaldo and Online Marketing Specialist Charles Tan for their invaluable comments on the manuscript, and Production Editor Adam David and his team for their work on the beautiful cover and interior art.