Authorial Magazine - Manila Edition
The Manila International Book Fair is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. The book fair, one of the biggest, most prestigious, and longest running events in the Philippines, is a great avenue amongst professionals in the publishing and academic world to collaborate and exchange ideas. It’s our first time to participate in this event and rally with literary giants and emerging voices from the world of books. In this issue, we start off with Virginia Paulette C. Hammack, author of the books The Hiding Place and Whisperings in the Wings. Hammack talks about her life, her two books, and her struggles as a writer. We also talked to Raju Ramanathan, world renowned enlightenment guru and author of Souls from Mercury. Ramanathan shares what inspired him to write and offers advice to aspiring authors. We still receive and get tons of contributions from talented and renowned writers, and in this issue, we’re featuring the works of Adriana Pernetz, Ted Torgersen, Donald Ray Schwartz, Gary Alan Rothhaar, Ivor Kovac, Diane Davies, and Elizabeth Len Wai. Lastly, beautiful spots and fascinating experiences await beyond the bright lights of the city when you read “The Charming City of Manila,” in our lifestyle section. We all love stories that resonate with our own, especially those that bring us to greater heights in mood and in thought. We hope you’ll enjoy reading this issue as much as we enjoyed piecing it together.
The Manila International Book Fair is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. The book fair, one of the biggest, most prestigious, and longest running events in the Philippines, is a great avenue amongst professionals in the publishing and academic world to collaborate and exchange ideas.
It’s our first time to participate in this event and rally with literary giants and emerging voices from the world of books. In this issue, we start off with Virginia Paulette C. Hammack, author of the books The Hiding Place and Whisperings in the Wings. Hammack talks about her life, her two books, and her struggles as a writer.
We also talked to Raju Ramanathan, world renowned enlightenment guru and author of Souls from Mercury. Ramanathan shares what inspired him to write and offers advice to aspiring authors.
We still receive and get tons of contributions from talented and renowned writers, and in this issue, we’re featuring the works of Adriana Pernetz, Ted Torgersen, Donald Ray Schwartz, Gary Alan Rothhaar, Ivor Kovac, Diane Davies, and Elizabeth Len Wai.
Lastly, beautiful spots and fascinating experiences await beyond the bright lights of the city when you read “The Charming City of Manila,” in our lifestyle section.
We all love stories that resonate with our own, especially those that bring us to greater heights in mood and in thought. We hope you’ll enjoy reading this issue as much as we enjoyed piecing it together.
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2:30 P.M. Arrive in studio offices after having<br />
run through rain monsoon and water<br />
up to our ankles. We were soaked, hair,<br />
clothes, shoes and all. Dr. Larry D.<br />
Carnes, Books of the Month program<br />
host, met with us for a few minutes<br />
of get acquainted chit chat. He felt<br />
that Jeannie Ann’s Grandma Has<br />
Breast Cancer was both powerful and<br />
impactful. “Are you ready?” he asked. I<br />
responded with, “Well I think I need to<br />
use a bathroom to try and save what’s<br />
left of me and my hairdo!”<br />
After trying to dry my hair with paper<br />
towels, adding a little “product” as they<br />
say, and applying make-up once again to<br />
replace what washed off in the Georgia<br />
deluge, we were invited in to the studio.<br />
Being a Saturday, they had a pretty bare<br />
bones staff on hand to do the taping.<br />
Two tall chairs where set on a green<br />
background cloth – the cover of the<br />
Jeannie Ann Book will be added to the<br />
background later. Two technicians were<br />
set up with the cameras and computers<br />
and such and away we went with the<br />
interview with Dr. Larry on his stool<br />
and I on mine. The main thrust of the<br />
interview was on the impact the book<br />
was having on its readers.<br />
We visited a bit longer after the<br />
interview finished. The Bishop, Dr.<br />
Larry, was astonished that we had<br />
traveled all that way for just one day and<br />
were heading home again that evening.<br />
He really seemed in no hurry to visit<br />
Minnesota any time soon. Our winter<br />
weather legends and chronicles have the<br />
south pretty much afraid to travel north.<br />
“What do you do when it’s so cold and<br />
snowy?” he asked. “Carry on with our<br />
lives,” we replied. “Just like you do down<br />
here in the heat.”<br />
4:00 P.M. Or there about, we’re back in the car,<br />
headed toward Atlanta and the airport<br />
once again. We arrive around an hour<br />
later to return the car to the rental<br />
company and back track our way into<br />
the terminal. This time following the<br />
steps backwards from about 3 hours ago.<br />
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1. Lots of walking and an<br />
escalator or two.<br />
2. Sky Train back to the terminal.<br />
3. Tram out to the concourses.<br />
4. Check-in - TSA Pre-Check<br />
Found Gate D23 and that our flight to<br />
Charlotte was delayed until 7:45 P.M.<br />
We checked in with the gate agent as we<br />
did not want to miss our flight at 10:44<br />
P.M. out of Charlotte to Minneapolis.
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