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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Eyes from Above!<br />
by Howard R Milsted Jr.<br />
“Eyes from Above” the sequel to “A Real Love Story,” is a romantic<br />
novel about a man who experiences great loneliness and deep<br />
depression after the death of his beloved wife of forty-eight years.<br />
His loss of will to live consumes him until his wife comes to him in<br />
visions and urges him to enjoy his life on earth until they are united<br />
again for eternity. He meets a much younger woman and the three<br />
of them become entwined in a journey of found, lost and then found<br />
again happiness. His story will lift the hearts of readers who have<br />
suffered great loss.<br />
Hot and Cold<br />
Running War<br />
by Captain Eugene Ray Martin<br />
AUTHORS PRESS<br />
This book is a collection of adventures that defined the cold war. The<br />
theme of some of these adventures is about how close we came to<br />
World War III with nuclear exchanges between China, Russia, and<br />
America. The results of some of those stories might have resulted in a<br />
non-nuclear war with Russia and America shooting at each other.<br />
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Our NSA protagonist and his KGB girlfriend tie many of the stories<br />
together. All the adventures are fictional although they were based on<br />
actual events. This was a time when the world’s greatest powers, Russia,<br />
America, and China were at conflicting ends politically and militarily.
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