Call for Submissions: PGS Special Halloween Issue
After the PGS holiday-themed issue, let's try, at the suggestion of award-winning writer and PGS contributor Yvette Tan, a Halloween-themed one. In fact, seeing as the workload for PGS is piling up, and it's becoming harder to manage things as both publisher and editor, I've accepted Yvette's offer to let her be the guest editor for this special issue due out near Halloween 2008. Since stories of the supernatural are what grabs Yvette's attention (and what flows from her pen most of the time), editing the Halloween issue seems like a perfect fit.Read the guidelines here.
New Stories by Nikki Alfar and Chiles Samaniego
Peeking Back In
A Transcript of Philippine Genre Stories Interview on Mellow 94.7
Charles Tan (Bibliophile Stalker) has finished transcribing the Mellow 94.7 appearance of Vin Simbulan, Dean Francis Alfar and Kenneth Yu of Philippine Genre Stories. You can read the full transcript here.
I especially liked how Dean defined an "inventory" of stories in this passage. I wonder how many spec fic writers out there can say this goes for them as well -
Dean: Well an inventory is just a collection of stories that a writer has written over a brief period of time, let's say several months. Some writers like to have things when they're struck by inspiration of because they have discipline, write a story or two. And then when there are calls or obvious venues or calls for submission, we send it out. Some times though, we write specifically to submit or if there is a competition or contest, then we write. It's good discipline to have an inventory, to have some stories up your sleeve. You never know if four publishers suddenly come knocking down your door saying we want your story, each! And you say no problem, no problem.
Again, the full transcript is here.