Eliza Victoria

mibf ’14 + visprint book signing at precious pages

I’m happy to be back at the Manila International Book Fair this year!

It coincided with SM Mall of Asia’s three-day sale, so we decided to head there early — really early — and have breakfast before joining the crowd.

J had to head elsewhere first, so I walked to SMX from the restaurant. Good thing I chanced upon table-mate Ferdinand Pisigan Jarin (Anim na Sabado ng Beyblade, Visprint, 2013). We walked to the venue together.

Happy for the nameplate, but I still got asked where the registration table was. Haha!

I was happy to meet the readers. One of them, Mira, brought us some sweets!

Mira took this lovely photo of me and J at the Visprint table.

Tricia and her friend came armed with an Instax camera, which was very cool, and made me very jealous.

Ivy took a nice photo of me.

We stayed at the table until half-past 11.

Look at the crowd.

Got these beauties from the Visprint rack at Precious Pages. Till next year!

visprint books at the 2014 mibf

These photos are from the Visprint Facebook page. Visprint books are sold at 10 % off at the Precious Pages booth (in front of the main stage) at the 2014 Manila International Book Fair. Come visit!

I’ll be there Saturday, 11-12 nn, for a book signing. See you.

upcoming stories

My story “Fortitude” will be included in the upcoming anthology Science Fiction: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults, edited by Dean Francis Alfar and Kenneth Yu.

Trivia: this is the first story I’ve ever written on a tablet. Sci-fi! (It was pretty difficult, though — I missed the feel of a keyboard. It was like I was sending a very long, hateful text to an enemy.)

Another story of mine, the short short “Stories from the City”, will appear in the second installment of Fast Food Fiction, a collection of stories each with a maximum word count of 500 words, and edited by Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta and Noelle de Jesus.

My thanks to the editors.

Story Review: Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff

Drop by the Station.

The Short Story Station

Eliza Victoria stops by the station to contribute a short story review. She is a Filipino author who authored the following books: Dwellers (2014), Project 17 (2013), Unseen Moon (2013), and A Bottle of Storm Clouds (2012). You may also have read her fiction and poetry in various publications, some of which are Daily Science Fiction, Stone Telling, Room Magazine, Story Quarterly, The Pedestal Magazine, High Chair, and the Philippine Speculative Fiction anthologies.

This review is also published in her blog. The station is happy to receive a contribution from a multi-awarded author. Thank you, Eliza.

The bullet is already in the brain; it won’t be outrun forever, or charmed to a halt. In the end it will do its work and leave the troubled skull behind, dragging its comet’s tail of memory and hope and talent and love into the marble hall of commerce. That can’t be helped.

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new poems + mibf 2014

I have five new poems in Issue 23 of Kritika Kultura. You can read them here.
Visprint Inc. won’t have its own booth at the upcoming Manila International Book Fair (Sept. 17-21, SMX Convention Center, 10-8pm), but our books can be found at the Precious Pages booth! I will also be there for a book signing session on Sept. 20 (Saturday) from 11-12nn. See you!
From Visprint:

All Visprint titles will be sold at 10% off at the Manila International Book Fair, by our selling partner Precious Pages

Meet and greet your favorite Visprint authors at the Precious Pages booth at the following schedule:

Sept 19:
1PM – Paolo Chikiamco and Mervin Malonzo
2PM – Eros Atalia

Sept 20:
11AM – Eliza Victoria, Joselito D. Delos Reyes and Ferdinand Pisigan Jarin;
1PM – Jose Carlos Malvar and Karl R. De Mesa
2PM – Alan Navarra, David Hontiveros and Karen Francisco;
5PM – Beverly Wico Siy

Sept 21:
2PM – G.M. Bart Coronel

Adarna House has uploaded this printable ticket so you can gain free entrance. Black and white printouts are accepted at the gate.

Chasing Tales, Volume 1: Fantasy Night

The Typewriter Dailies

To commemorate our first night of Chasing Tales and to promote the work of our speakers from last August 23^rd’s magical night, we’re proud to announce that we are going to be releasing an awesome chapbook featuring work form Eliza Victoria, Erika Carreon and Carlo Flordeliza. This is set to come out on September 20^th at BGC’s Art Mart where we’ll be setting up shop that weekend. As per usual, the pre-order price is always cheaper: the pre-order price goes for P265, and the regular price will be announced once the book is available at our bookstore. The volume contains both short stories and excerpts from the upcoming novels of our speakers. You can pre-order by sending us an e-mail at info@moarbooks.net.

More updates soon!