My short story, “Parallel“, is now live, along with the rest of the November issue of Expanded Horizons. “Parallel” originally appeared in print in the fourth Philippine Speculative Fiction volume, edited by Dean Alfar and Nikki Alfar.
Also in the November issue is this fantastic artwork (“The Key Keeper“) by James Ng.
Head on over to the site to read some stories and learn the tale behind the art.
1. It rained on my birthday. No surprise there. I was told, repeatedly, to lose weight. No surprise there, either, but I was surprised by the intensity. I ate cake, but it saddened me.
2. I need to lose 20 pounds. I will have to starve myself.
3. Look, pictures of my siblings play-fighting each other for my benefit.
4. My poem, “Bath Time”, will appear in the November issue of The Houston Literary Review.
5. Usok # 2 is up! My story “Elsewhere” is in it. Congrats to my fellow lady authors, and thank you to the artists, and of course editor Paolo C. for his patience.
6. Thank you to Jaykie and his family for treating me out to dinner last night. :)
7. I am 24. I am 24. I am 24.
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10. How the hell can I lose 20 pounds?
From Paolo Chikiamco of Rocket Kapre:
The wait is over. Be here on November 3, 2010 for the launch of the second issue of Usok, the webzine of Fantastic Filipino Fiction. Three all new stories, each with a custom piece of art by some of the best digital painters in the country, with a cover by CG Pintor founder K. Lapeña. Please spread the word!
Table of Contents:
100% of Me by Kate Aton-Osias
Elsewhere by Eliza Victoria
The Widow and the Princess of the Dwende by Elaine Cuyegkeng
Artwork by K. Lapeña, Mark Bulahao, MJ Pajaron, and VN Benedicto
The artwork, as always, is fantastic.
While waiting for Nov. 3, you can always visit the site. Look around. Paolo’s got interviews, news, articles, stories (check out Usok # 1), everything spec fic. :)
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I’ll be celebrating my 24th birthday on Nov. 1 (woo-hoo!). I’ll be offline for more or less four days, starting tomorrow. Will be spending time with family. Enjoy the weekend! :D
My story, “Incidental Light“, is in the second issue of Basement Stories. The issue also features fiction by Lavie Tidhar and Megan Arkenberg.
My short story for children, “Jeremy’s Magic Well”, now a book published by the Gig and the Amazing Sampaguita Foundation, Inc. (GASFI), is not available in the bookstores. Ms Beaulah writes:
For those who are interested in getting copies, please ask GASFI by emailing gigfoundation@gmail.com.
More info from here:
ABOUT THE BOOKS AND THE PUBLISHER
These books are part of the Gig Seafarer Children’s Stories series. They are published by Gig and the Amazing Sampaguita Foundation, Inc. (GASFI), a nonprofit organization founded and headed by Marissa Oca Robles.
GASFI is driven by Marissa’s three passions: honoring the memory and youthful spirit of her son Gig, promoting the reading habit among children and their parents, and serving the needs of Filipino seamen’s families.
The first has to do with turning the loss of a loved one into life-affirming action. When her son died in an accident, Marissa founded GASFI to celebrate his love for books, his tender affection for sampaguita flowers, and his frequent use of the word “amazing” to describe his life and almost everything in it.
The second is about kindling and sustaining a life-long love for reading among children and their families. “Twenty Minutes At Bedtime” is not only GASFI’s slogan, it is also the minimum amount of time, Marissa believes, that parents should set aside everyday to read with their children.
The third is Marissa’s special contribution to her family’s cause: the welfare of Filipino seamen. Her father Captain Gregorio S. Oca laid the cornerstone when he founded the Associated Marine Officers and Seamen’s Union of the Philippines (Amosup). Marissa builds upon it by running seamen’s villages, hospitals, schools and libraries throughout the country.
When you read and share one of these books, you join an ever-expanding circle that gathers round people and things that warm the cockles of our hearts: our children, books and reading, and the strength and resilience of families – especially where the father is mostly away at sea.
MORE ABOUT THE BOOKS
Each book is based on a prize-winning story, one of ten winners of the Gig Book Storywriting Contest conducted by GASFI in 2009. Close to 150 stories were submitted for the contest. The ten best stories were selected and edited for publication by publisher and children’s author Karina Africa Bolasco, book reviewer and children’s author Neni Sta. Romana Cruz, and Beaulah Pedregosa Taguiwalo. Book design, art direction, and pre-press production by Beaulah Pedregosa Taguiwalo, color separations by iColours, printing by Raintree Trading & Publishing, Inc.
Page size: 18.5 x 11 inches
Number of pages: 24
Binding: Softcover, Saddle-stitched
Cover: Full color, Foldcote Cal. 15 with plastic lamination
Inside: Full color, Matte 120 lbs.CONTACT US
Marissa Oca Robles, President
Gig and the Amazing Sampaguita Foundation, Inc. (GASFI)
Suite 600 The Gregorian, 2178 Taft Avenue
Malate, Manila 1004 Philippines
Tel. Manila (632) 400-4933 or (632)353-1267 local 826,
Cavite (6346)9730370, Mobile (63915) 346 6251
E-mail: gigfoundation@gmail.com
Website: http://www.gasfi.comBeaulah Pedregosa Taguiwalo
Executive Editor & Book Designer
Gig Seafarer Children’s Stories
E-mail: taguiwalo8888@yahoo.com
Mobile: 0917-787-4956
So send them an email, if you are so inclined. :)
I have updated my Publications page as soon as the issue came out, but I must have forgotten to announce it here. Oops.
But Issue 59 of Pedestal Magazine is still up (and will remain live until October), so do visit the site. It includes my poem, “Maps”.
Clarkesworld is an award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in October 2006. The magazine, helmed by publisher Neil Clarke and editor Sean Wallace, releases an issue every month containing at least two pieces of original fiction, as well as non-fiction and podcasts. The magazine’s contents are available online for free, but its fiction offerings can also be found in print – collected by issue in signed chapbooks (limited to a minimum of 100 copies at a price of USD14 each) and annually in the magazine’s print anthology, Realms. Both print outputs are published by Wyrm Publishing.
Here is a review of Clarkesworld’s July issue (Issue # 46).
Read more here.
“Prose. Poetry. Pulp,” reads the tagline of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, and that is exactly what we find in this online magazine committed to publishing the best in heroic fantasy. Swordsmen, adventures, fantastic landscapes – HFQ is filled with stories of action, with a hope to “hearken back to an older age of storytelling –an age when a story well told enthralled audiences.” Adrian Simmons, David Farney, and William Ledbetter sit as editors. HFQ releases new issues on the first of July, October, January, and April.
HFQ’s Issue 5 marks the first-year anniversary of this publication.
Let the battles begin.
Read more here.
Eliza Victoria 