September titles released!

Project 17
Eliza Victoria
Filipiniana, Sci-fi novel
ISBN: 971-0545-25-6
162 pages
SRP: P175.00

Lillian is merely looking for a babysitting job for the summer, but a desperate man named Paul Dolores hires her to look after his 28-year-old brother, Caleb. Caleb is suffering from schizoaffective disorder, and Paul, who is about to start on his first office job in a long while, wants to make sure his brother takes his medication on time. Lillian, at first hesitant, accepts the job for the pay and the perks, but soon starts to wonder about the brothers she is working for. How come she can’t find any information online about the drugs Caleb is taking? And how come the national central database lists them as dead?

Cover design and illustrations by: Jap Mikel

WAKASANG WASAK
Carlos " Siege " Malvar
Filipiniana, A trilogy of urban adventure short stories
ISBN: 971-0545-26-4
132 pages
SRP: P175.00

What is the hiwaga that is in the dako paroon? Created by the balintataw or of, like, OA na imagination? I mean,what the fuck is a balintataw, anyway?

Here are the three tales of wild,wonderful women in wicked situations. Why are men dying to be on The Kama Ni Stella? Why does Dindin have a bad feeling about Ang Mutya ng San Isidro? And who’sthe DJ in the place Where Angels Fear to Dance?

What are you waiting for? Yes, you, holding this book at the bookstore? Buy this now.
Ang magsoli nito sa shelf…MAMAMATAY.

Cover design and illustrations by: Kitt Lapena

Trese: Stories From The Diabolical volume 1
Budjette Tan & KaJo Baldisimo
A collection of black and white illustrated short stories
ISBN: 971-0545-27-2
94 pages
SRP: P140.00

Welcome to The Diabolical! My name is Hank. I’ll be your bartender for tonight. What will it be? Don’t tell me. I know exactly what you want to drink.

So what’s on your mind? You have a story to tell? You’ve come to the right place. I’ve got some interesting stories as well.

Have you heard the one about the ghost who walked in the bar? The one who kept coming back, waiting for the arrival of that certain someone?

What about the guy who had coffee with his dead girlfriend? Or the story of the spectral Christmas carolers?

And then there’s that strange tale of all those senior citizens who watched the last full show and never came out.

No? Haven’t heard those? Well, have another drink and I’ll tell you all about it.

*FYI, this is not Trese 6 :)

Carlos "Siege" Malvar in Sunday Inquirer Magazine!

The New Radical

By Ruel S. De Vera
Philippine Daily Inquirer 

IT WAS bound to happen. Taking the next step in literary evolution, the iPod-toting, zeitgeist-conscious, latte-sipping, Facebook-wielding generation would develop a writer designed for maximum effect.

Meet Exhibit A: Carlos “Siege” Malvar, the 26-year-old novelist whose work, such as his Not Quite Unreal series, springs from and celebrates the high jinks of being young and Filipino. “Roles” and its sequel “Crash” depict growing up with a cerebral authenticity, shedding light on the claustrophobic mythology that is Pinoy adolescence.

Read the rest here.

Advanced Order Promo! - Manila International Book Fair

Pre-order any of the upcoming Visprint books:
- CRASH, a Not Quite Unreal sequel, by Carlos Malvar
- TRESE 3: Mass Murders, by Budjette Tan & Kajo Baldisimo
- 12, by Manix Abrera

Enjoy your very own SIGNED copy, delivered to you free of charge*, 1 week before the book's commercial release!

MECHANICS:
1. Promo applies to Metro Manila addresses only*.
2. Advanced order and payments should be made during the MIBF.
3. Promo forms available at the Visprint booth.

Kudos to Carlos "Siege" Malvar!

SPEECHLESS is a unique international performance poetry project, and starting in October, Apples & Snakes and the British Council Literature Department will take Speechless around the UK. The project will tour eight venues in the UK and aims to foster the interaction between the poets and young people in Britain - specifically the Diaspora - through community and university workshops.
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Speechless brings together new poetry by five writers from across South East Asia and four brilliant UK-based poets on the theme of freedom of expression in a unique new multi-lingual spoken word show.
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Funded in part by Arts Council England, each performance features a 10 minute selection from: Priya K (Malaysia), Siege Malvar (Philippines), Pooja Nansi (Singapore), Liu Liang Yen (Taiwan), Da Thao Phuong (Vietnam) and UK artists Francesca Beard, Malika Booker, Aoife Mannix and Jacob Sam-La Rose, based around the theme of freedom of expression.


*Carlos Malvar is the author of visprint's "ROLES" a not quite unreal novel.