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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Harmony’s Song<br />
and Other Stories<br />
by Carl Wooton<br />
Twelve stories explore the stresses and strains inherent in youth coming<br />
of age, family dynamics, misplaced and unrequited love, the reserved<br />
strength in a marriage, a confrontation with death, and the constant<br />
awareness that there is never enough money.<br />
Ernest Ramblers family lives with the knowledge that Ernest senses<br />
that he must always be looking for or moving to a better job, which<br />
means they will be moving again soon. The stories place the characters<br />
in Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. None of the<br />
characters seems to find a sense of permanence in any one place. In<br />
Ramblers and Spinners, coming of age can mean a counting of losses. In<br />
A Wide Day, the death of a chicken reveals a mystery about time and<br />
life and death. Arrangements and Harmonys Song display how little one<br />
might know about another. There is a general sense that everything in<br />
life involves unending pursuits of security and love and that coming of<br />
age may well be a never-ending process.<br />
From Homeless<br />
to Heaven<br />
by Jeanne Ann Off<br />
Usually Cody Cambres had to do ranch work alone in the winter.<br />
However, he had a standing order with an employment agency for<br />
an employee. One winter he was surprised to get a call saying a man<br />
would be on the bus that evening. Alan told Cody that he wanted a<br />
job and a warm place to sleep instead of living outdoors as a homeless<br />
man. Alan had refused to stay in any mission shelter because of life<br />
experiences involving religion. He does enjoy ranch work. In the<br />
spring Cody and Alan are checking cows and the calves born that<br />
spring when a bullet hits Alan. Later a bullet from the same rifle kills<br />
Cody’s best horse. Fire begins on Cody’s ranch and spreads. Aimi’s<br />
house burns down and Aimi’s husband is murdered by a bullet from<br />
the same rifle. Alan helps both Cody and Aimi with ranch work.<br />
Friendship develops.<br />
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