The Cabinet’s newest issue is out, and my poem is here. Feel free to share the link.
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Hi all! How’s your 2015 so far? I’ll have to start with a teeny tiny bad news. Bad news for me personally, but good for devout Catholics in the country: the Pope will be arriving in Manila later today, but due to his arrival and activities here, several roads will be closed. Including our road. Yep. Due to this, I will be missing out on BLTX6 (January 17-18) at Uno Morato in QC. Click here for event details. Do check it out if you are in the area.
The books that will go on sale include Chasing Tales from MoarBooks, which contains a story of mine called “Fairy Tales”, appearing in print for the first time; and the Cabinet’s Revival Issue, which contains a new poem of mine that has not appeared anywhere else, offline or online.
Update: The Revival Issue’s launch has been moved to Jan. 24, 5:30 PM, Uno Morato.
But before January ends, I will be at the launch of Fast Food Fiction Delivery, a flash fiction anthology edited by Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta and Noelle Q. de Jesus. See you on January 31, 3 PM at Powerbooks Greenbelt!
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!
I will have a chapbook of four stories (three previously published, one original) out by December, thanks to Et Al.
This December, Et Al Books releases “Encounters”, a series of chapbooks by Filipino writers. The first wave of Encounters features Gilda Cordero-Fernando, Jose Dalisay, Eliza Victoria, Luis Joaquin M. Katigbak, Dean Francis Alfar, Angelo R. Lacuesta, and Ian Rosales Casocot. The line of covers is designed by acclaimed artist Annie Cabigting.
My story lineup: “The Missing”, “Maybe Another Song at Dusk”, “Voyage to Bathala”, and “A Handmade House”.
Since the TOC is out, I can now announce the good news that my little story, “Dan’s Dreams“, is included in The Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction 2013 edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Julia Rios. I am very excited about this, because my story will appear alongside stories by writers I admire, among them Sofia Samatar, Lavie Tidhar, Ken Liu, and Neil Gaiman.
My thanks to Alisa and Julia, and my gratitude as well to Dean Francis Alfar, Kenneth Yu, and the University of the Philippines Press, who first gave the story a home in the local anthology Horror: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults.
Coming late 2014
Our goal is to uncover the best young adult short fiction of the year published in the anthologies dedicated to the form, the occasional special edition of a magazine, and individual pieces appearing in otherwise “adult” anthologies and magazines, and bring them together in one accessible collection.
Fans of Kaleidoscope will find more tales of wonder, adventure, diversity, and variety in this collection devoted to stories with teen protagonists.
Table of Contents
Selkie Stories Are For Losers – Sofia Samatar
By Bone-Light – Juliet Marillier
The Myriad Dangers – Lavie Tidhar
Carpet – Nnedi Okorafor
I Gave You My Love by the Light of the Moon – Sarah Rees Brennan
57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides – Sam J. Miller
The Minotaur Girls – Tansy Rayner Roberts
Not With You, But With You – Miri Kim
Ghost Town – Malinda Lo
December – Neil Gaiman
An Echo in the Shell – Beth Cato
Dan’s Dreams – Eliza Victoria
As Large As Alone – Alena McNamara
Random Play All and the League of Awesome – Shane Halbach
Mah Song – Joanne Anderton
What We Ourselves Are Not – Leah Cypess
The City of Chrysanthemum – Ken Liu
Megumi’s Quest – Joyce Chng
Persimmon, Teeth, and Boys – Steve Berman
Flight – Angela Slatter
We Have Always Lived on Mars – Cecil Castellucci– See more at: http://www.twelfthplanetpress.com/products/ebooks/years-best-ya-speculative-fiction#sthash.hXsVC0aJ.dpuf
– Re-read Stephen King’s Pet Sematary
– Read a bunch of stories from Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year series. (I was in a very horror kind of mood.)
– Watched all 13 episodes of Hataraku Maou-Sama (The Devil Is A Part-Timer). The Dark Lord of Ente Isla and his demon general Alsiel flee an attack by using a portal between worlds. They end up in modern Japan, where there is no magic and everything is expensive. The Dark Lord is forced to work part-time at a fast-food restaurant, while Alsiel stays in their rented apartment, figuring out how to get them back to Ente Isla, do housework, and make sure they’re living within budget.
It’s as crazy, charming, and funny as that summary. I loved it to bits.
– Did an interview with Philippine Star SUPREME about creepypasta, NoSleep, and online storytelling. [Read: “The new weird” by Don Jaucian]
– Ate a bowl of Ramen and sea salt caramel chocolate mousse.
– Received cake, a black balloon, and a bag of treats from my lovely colleagues.
– Received cake from my siblings.
– Ate a lot of cake.
Flashback:
– Attended the second Usapang May-Akda, featuring Emiliana Kampilan of Dead Balagtas.
– Bought a new copy of elsewhere held and lingered and had it signed by the author. Happiness.
– Jaykie and his drawings.
The ninth volume of the Philippine Speculative Fiction series is now available! Look at that gorgeous cover. This anthology includes my story, “Deliver Us”. Please grab a copy!
Philippine Speculative Fiction Volume 9 edited by Andrew Drilon and Charles Tan
Amazon: www.amazon.com/Philippine-Speculative-Fiction-Andrew-Drilon-ebook/dp/B00O8G3W5W/
Kobo: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/philippine-speculative-fiction-volume-9
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/philippine-speculative-fiction/id926647930
Flipreads: http://flipreads.com/psf-9
A young tikbalang auditions at the country’s largest TV station; a priest travels the universe to officiate sacraments in outer space; a murdered girl returns unscathed to the home of her perpetrators. The Philippine Speculative Fiction series showcases the rich variety of Philippine literature. Between these covers you will find magic realism next to science fiction, traditional fantasy beside slipstream, and imaginary worlds rubbing shoulders with alternate Philippine history—demonstrating that the literature of the fantastic is alive and well in the Philippines.
Stories from this series have been included in the Honorable Mentions list from The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin Grant.
Eliza Victoria 