Gloss Girl Is Scary
She's very scary. She's threatened to wear eyeliner and show herself to me!
Guest-editor for the PGS Special Halloween Issue, Yvette Tan, expounds on the horror genre, how she sees it, what she looks for when she reads it, why she writes it. Here's a quote:
"It's easy to stick a vampire or a serial killer (or in our case, a kapre or a manananggal – both of which I'm guilty of doing) in the middle of a story and call it horror. And it may be very good horror. But it takes a genius to use a shy motel owner or an entire farming village to wreak havoc on the reader's psyche."
Check out her blog entry: January Blues Or The Horror, The Horror! Get a clue as to what she's looking for in your submissions for the PGS Special Halloween Issue. (She also lists those on this year's preliminary ballot for The Stokers).
Gloss Girl is scary. But she's also looking to be scared. Send your submissions in (pdohs(at)yahoo(dot)com) and scare her eyeliner off.
Guest-editor for the PGS Special Halloween Issue, Yvette Tan, expounds on the horror genre, how she sees it, what she looks for when she reads it, why she writes it. Here's a quote:
"It's easy to stick a vampire or a serial killer (or in our case, a kapre or a manananggal – both of which I'm guilty of doing) in the middle of a story and call it horror. And it may be very good horror. But it takes a genius to use a shy motel owner or an entire farming village to wreak havoc on the reader's psyche."
Check out her blog entry: January Blues Or The Horror, The Horror! Get a clue as to what she's looking for in your submissions for the PGS Special Halloween Issue. (She also lists those on this year's preliminary ballot for The Stokers).
Gloss Girl is scary. But she's also looking to be scared. Send your submissions in (pdohs(at)yahoo(dot)com) and scare her eyeliner off.
posted by pgenrestories at 4:27 PM
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about the comment deleted: another one of your stalker fans, heckling you :) Actually, that was me, because you didn't post about your and Charles' article on Phil Star.
Haha! No, I don't think that comment I deleted was you...the commenter went by some other name. As for the Phil Star article, The Bibliophile Stalker already announced it. Good enough for me. :)
Yeah, where I get good announcements actually. About the Yvette Tan special issue, what I wouldn't give to be able to come up with a shy motel owner archetype. Just once, and I can wither away.
Give it a try. No harm in doing so. Then send it in to Yvette.
HI Kenneth,
I've been buying the PGS digests since I discovered the first one some time last year. All of the digests have had at least one story that I liked (Middle Prince, Tuko, Beneath the Acacia). The Christmas theme issue was the best so far with the one, two, three punch of The Magic Christmas Box, Noche Buena and The Off Season. Can you do more of these? By sticking to one theme, the reader at least has an inkling on what to expect although the genres could still vary. I'm already looking forward to the Horror and Crime Fiction issues. How about an all Sci-fi issue? Fantasy issue? Romance? Pinoy Mythology? Western? The possibilities are endless.
Hi Ved. Thanks for your kind words, and I'm glad you're enjoying PGS (or at least, there are tales within each issue that catches your fancy). You're suggestion is a good one, and yes, I'm leaning toward trying such out. The next one or two PGS issues will be more of the regular fare of mixed tales, but starting with Halloween (which is Yvette Tan's all horror issue), followed by F.H. Batacan's all crime/mystery/suspense issue, there may be a string of other themed issues coming. Thanks very much for all your support! Much appreciated!
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