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How have you been? We’ve had storms making landfall in the country, one after the other, as if we’re an important bus stop for their tour or something, and the news has been pretty strange, Chris Brown sitting next to Iglesia ni Cristo expelling members sitting next to the discovery of a possible second Earth. Sometimes my stories can’t keep up with reality.

On to the updates:

I have received my complimentary copy of the Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction 2013. Thank you to editors Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein.

You can buy the book straight from the publisher.

Mervin Malonzo is making headway with our comic book collaboration, After Lambana. It was also featured on Bookwatch. See the gorgeousness.

A story of mine, “The Seventh”, is accepted for publication in the 9th issue of LIKHAAN: The Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature. From the referee’s notes: “A disturbing narrative pursuing the uncanny as both atmosphere and lingering effect. The story is relatively short but it builds up to a palpable sense of horror…”
Tangent Online reviews Lontar #4.

“Rebecca’s life is falling to pieces one memory at a time in ‘Fade’ by Eliza Victoria. Her dreams are a fractured mix of reality and portent, while her waking life seems to be fading into an ever more nebulous fantasy of false memories and disquieting omissions. What is real and what isn’t splits further when the people in her dreams come to life during the course of one oddly deja-vu-like day. Unexpected visitors promise to bring clarity to the whole mess, but already suspecting she can’t trust her own mind and memory, how can she be expected to trust the words of two seemingly random strangers?”

Dwellers got featured on Will Read for Feels. Thanks!

“Dwellers has paranormal and suspense elements that got me right at the edge of my seat. Victoria’s work is something you shouldn’t miss—her prose is fluid and engaging, not to mention that you’ll get so immersed in the books’ universe, you’re going to want to dive in to more of her stories.”

Now: Line-edited around 40K words of a new short novel, for publication (hopefully!) before the year ends. Title and teasers to follow. Thanks again to Visprint, Nida and Kyra for the love. Also working on a collection of interconnected short stories.

Will Read for Feels’ ‘5 Filipino Speculative Fiction Authors to Watch’

Hands-down, one of our most prolific authors in the field is Eliza Victoria. Whether you crave science fiction, fantasy, or horror, Victoria has a story for you. She’s also written in a variety of formats, whether it’s short stories, novelettes, novella, poetry, and soon, comics. The only format that currently eludes her is the novel, but she has a large body of work to tide you over. It’s not just the sheer volume that makes Victoria stand out, but how consistent she delivers interesting and compelling stories.

Selected Bibliography:

A Bottle of Storm Clouds (Visprint/Flipside Publishing)
Project 17 (Visprint/Flipside Publishing)
Unseen Moon (Eliza Victoria)

From “Guest Post: 5 Filipino Speculative Fiction Authors to Watch” on Will Read for Feels. Thank you Charles Tan, Anne, Liana, and Marian! Please click through for more links and recommendations.

scenes from visprint writers in talks (wit) 2015

Thank you to my publisher Visprint, the UST Literary Society, and to everyone who attended the Writers in Talks (WIT) 2015 event on March 21. I had so much fun, and I do hope the aspiring young writers in attendance learned a thing or two. There are photos floating around in the ether, but here are some of mine:

This is at the beginning of Writer’s Lifestyle panel, which I thought was pretty fun. The host asks a question (“How often do you release new work?”) and the writers line up behind the choices (“A: Prolific, every month; B: Happy Birthday, once a year; C: Century egg” — you can guess what this option means.)

Big crowd.

This is from the Lost Covers exhibit — an exhibit of rejected covers. I wasn’t able to take a photo of the alternate Dwellers cover. (It was white instead of black.)

Manix Abrera’s line of fans.

Boo!

The Komiks panel was facilitated by Paolo Fabregas.

Mervin Malonzo showed old sketches from his childhood. Very interesting to see how his style evolved.

Tepai Pascual talking about her manga influences.

I facilitated the Publishing 101 panel with Paolo Chikiamco, Bebang Siy, Nida Ramirez, and Bart Coronel. We discussed: “red flags” in publication contracts, publication horror stories, services writers can expect from a traditional publisher, comparisons of digital/self/traditional publishing, and ways we can improve the local publishing industry. It ended on a great note, with Paolo talking about how important it is for writers to empower themselves. “Every time you look out for yourself as a writer, you look out for other writers. Every time you sell yourself short, you make it easier for publishers to sell other writers short. You will see that there are movements to create a situation wherein those who create benefit the least from their creations. You should not let this happen.”

Ferdinand Jarin serenading attendees.

Manix Abrera gave away some cool prizes (I wanted the Alan Moore comics SO BAD — next time I’m going to stop by the registration table!) including a lifetime supply of Kikomachine Komiks. He was serious.

Great cover, Manix!

‘dwellers’ included on spot.ph list of quick reads + fast food fiction delivery reading on march 24

You can read the full list here [10 Quick Reads For When You’re Stuck in Traffic]. Thanks Spot.ph! And thanks as well to Anne Plaza for the tip.

Are you ready for this Saturday? I will be bringing this to give out to readers. (I mean, if they want them.) Thank you to Shani Tan of Aromateria for working on these beauties.

~~I will also be in UST on March 24 to read a short short story of mine:~~

UPDATE 3/24: I won’t be able to attend, unfortunately, but do drop by to listen to the other writers read their work.

In cooperation with the UST Literary Society, and as part of the upcoming AB Literature week, Anvil Publishing will be having a book launch, book reading, and book signing, of its latest collection of short short stories to go, edited by Noelle Q. de Jesus and Mookie Katigbak Lacuesta, the “Fast Food Fiction Delivery”.

Join us on March 24, 2015, Tuesday, from 3 PM to 6 PM, at the Tanghalang Teresita Quirino, G/F, Benavides building, UST, Manila.

Mark your calendars, and see you there!

visprint writers in talks (wit) 2015 set for march 21!

And I will see you there of course!

When: March 21, 2015
Time: 9AM – 6:00PM
Where: Ground Floor St. Raymund’s Bldg., University of Santo Tomas in cooperation with the UST Literary Society
Open to the public!
No entrance fee!

Graphics & Design by Julienne Dadivas
>> http://hulyen.com/

9:30AM-11:00AM: Humor Writing Panel
Humor is more than jokes and slapstick. Truly memorable humor makes us laugh–and think about what’s so funny. Visprint writers and artists come together to discuss how to write and draw funny, where they get their ideas, and the secret to using media to tell good jokes.

11:00AM-12:00NN: Writer’s Lifestyle
Want to see your favorite Visprint writers participate in a game show? We do.

1:00PM-1:30PM: Spoken Word with Karl R. De Mesa
Listen to journalist, critic, and writer Karl R. De Mesa perform and sing poetry.

1:30PM-3:00PM: Reader’s Panel
Let’s talk about YOU. Visprint writers take to the mic to ask you their burning questions: what do YOU want to read; what do YOU look for in stories; what do YOU want more of? Help us out. Let’s talk.

3:00PM-4:30PM: Komik Talk
Listen in to Komikeros talk shop: their dream projects and the comics they want to make, stories in the pipeline, and their plans for 2015.

4:30PM-6:00PM: Publishing 101
One does not simply become an author. Seasoned writers and publishers reveal what they look for in manuscripts, how they pitch their stories, and what kind of readers they write for. We’ll even tell you How Not to Get Published.

6:00PM-6:30PM: Manix Abrera Kikomachine 11 Book Launch
Rakenrol!

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Concurrent exhibits:
Lost Covers
Visprint illustrators and artists exhibit book cover art in their earliest stages of production. Some of them never even made it to print.

Reading Nook
Without the distraction of cover art, would you read this book? We’ll give you the day to read our titles–but you won’t know which.

gratitude for 2014

I’m thankful for this year, despite the storms, the world’s tragedies, the bone-weariness caused by city living.

Let me share some photos I forgot to post here.

On Nov. 22, we attended the Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol. 9 Launch Party and the National Book Awards.

The PSF launch was held at Shangri-La CBTL, hosted by Dean Francis Alfar. Here’s J pretending to be someone else.

Flashback! An hour before that we bumped into fellow writers, beauties Elyss and Tin, and sat down for lunch at Duck & Buvette.

I really loved their food.

So right after the launch we had to run to the Marble Hall of the National Museum for the National Book Awards.

With Ricky de Ungria, Poetry Award Winner for his book, M’Mwry Wire.

My book on display.

While I was in Batanes, J won a Netrunner Tourney!

And here I am with people from work, enjoying our Christmas dinner.

My 2014, in stories —

Dwellers, published by Visprint https://elizavictoria.com/books

“The Missing.” Maximum Volume: Best New Filipino Fiction 2014, Feb. 28, 2014.

“Glass Jar.” Interactive story hosted on Philome.la, July 10, 2014.http://www.philome.la/elizawriteshere/glass-jar/play

“Remembrance.” Alternative Alamat (Print Edition), July 25, 2014.

“When I die, I want you to have all of my stuff.” Interactive story hosted on Philome.la, July 29, 2014. http://philome.la/…/when-i-die-i-want-you-to-have-all-…/play

“1:40 AM.” Daily Science Fiction, Aug. 8, 2014.http://dailysciencefiction.com/…/time…/eliza-victoria/140-am

“Morning (‘She waved but the child’)”
“Morning (‘She folds the sheets’)”
“Note to – (‘The terrifying thing about this is’)”
“Note to – (‘You will reach across the distance’)”
“Certainty”
Kritika Kultura, August 31, 2014. http://kritikakultura.ateneo.net/…/literary-sect…/five-poems

“Deliver Us.” Philippine Speculative Fiction 9, October 9, 2014.

And some acceptances that will see the light of day next year.

Happy Holidays!

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