PGS update, with a request

a lot of people (well, enough to get me to post, anyway; which isn't really much, to be honest) have been asking, so i thought i'd put this up, just in from Kenneth Yu, editor of the Digest of Philippine Genre Stories, who has bravely taken on The Saint of Elsewhere for their second ish:

I have to apologize that the Digest might come out late Mar to mid April instead of earlier. Three reasons, really.

One is that the cover image for the 2nd issue I put up on the blog earlier had a lot of negative comments. It had to be redone. So that delayed production some.

Second is, a couple of sponsors sent in their artwork for their ads late. The spades may be the swords of the soldiers, and the clubs may be weapons of war, but we need diamonds as money for this art. :) This added to the delay.

But don't worry, the 2nd issue will come out, and it will have improvements from the 1st issue.

i took the liberty of editing out the third as it gets a bit personal, and i didn't want Kenneth to feel there might be some invasion of privacy going on here; suffice to say the man has a lot on his plate right now, and is doing what he can to get the issue out as soon as possible.

as for Saint, it occurs to me that that manifestoish thing i just posted may or may not help you appreciate what i've done with it...but really, who bothers with these things anyway? either you like it or you don't or you don't care enough about it to go either way.

be sure to let me know, yeah?

i promise to keep my trap shut, whatever you may have to say.

*

later: just got an email from Kenneth, where he replies:

Nope, don't really mind. If it'll get more people to say a few, anonymous prayers, then I'll be very grateful.

so:

Third is, well, without going into detail, my father's in the hospital and my siblings are out of town, so I and my mother have had to see to so many things by ourselves. My having to delegate the Digest to my staff have forced me to be hands-off, so when I check, things are not up to par and I ask them to redo things.

it doesn't sound all too personal to me now that i read it again, and i suppose i was a bit too cautious about putting it up; but now it comes with a neat little request for all the faithful out there who happen upon this post, so i suppose it works out in the end.

hope it works out for you guys as well, Kenneth.