warning: potential indigestion

Kenneth Yu, brave editor of the nascent Digest of Philippine Genre Stories, has decided to gamble on one of my stories.

The Saint of Elsewhere will be published in the second issue of the Digest.

find an excerpt of Saint, along with five others, on the philippinegenrestories blog, here:

http://philippinegenrestories.blogspot.com/2007/02/issue-number-2.html

the excerpt is a bit spoilerish, but if you're going to choose a passage to excerpt from Saint, i suppose you couldn't have chosen better.

Issue 2 will be out in March, and Kenneth tells me it will be more 'experimental' than the first.

i can't wait. i'll be hearing from you when it comes out, i hope.

i might be wrong, but i believe it was Gabe Chouinard who predicted that the future of SF lies in small press; this may well be true for all 'genre' literature, maybe even literature in general, particularly in the Philippines.

whether you're a believer in 'genre' or not, if you enjoy reading for any reason, or you're in any other way interested in literature and writing, or your friends who are and are trying to make a living out of it, support the Digest. get a copy for yourself. get a copy for a friend, or copies for your friends. give them away at your weddings. or your company outings. or, hobbit-like, on your birthday. i promise not everyone will hate you for it.

at the very least, you'll be making your friendly neighborhood hack very happy.