
Reviews of “Alternative Alamat” are starting to trickle in (we were in the Philippines Graphic last week), and I’m happy to say that so far they’ve been of the positive variety. The latest comes from Tina Matanguihan (One More...
By Rocket Kapre on Jan 1, 2012 in:
News, alternative alamat, GMA News Online, Meann Ortiz, Notable Books, Notable Books from 2011, Notable Books of 2011, Philippine Speculative Fiction, PSF, PSF6, PSFVI, trese, Trese 4
We’d like to thank GMA News Online, particularly writer Meann Ortiz (who just last week gave her positive early impressions of “Alternative Alamat”), for including “Alternative Alamat” on their list of Notable Books from...
By Rocket Kapre on Dec 19, 2011 in:
News, Slider, charity, charity ebook, Flipreads, Flipreads.com, free book, free ebook, how to donate, how to help, Ondoy, PDF, Philippine poetry, Philippine Speculative Fiction, Philippines, Red Cross, relief, Ruin and Resolve, Sendong, Sendong relief, smashwords

I’ve already mentioned the devastation wrought by Typhoon Sendong over the weekend. As of this writing, at least 652 people have been confirmed dead as a result of flash floods that affected 135,000 people, nearly 47,000 of whom have been force...
By Rocket Kapre on Dec 13, 2011 in:
News, Slider, alternative alamat, Alternative Alamat ebook, Alternative Alamat preview, amazon, Andrei Tupaz, Balitok, Barnes and Noble, budjette tan, buy Alternative Alamat, celestine trinidad, David Hontiveros, Dean Alfar, download Alternative Alamat, drawings of Philippine gods, Eliza Victoria, Fernando N. Zialcita, Filipino Kindle books, Flipreads.com, Flipside, iTunes, kindle, Mervin Malonzo, Mo Francisco, mythic stories, myths reimagined, Nook, On Researching Philippine Mythology, Paolo Chikiamco, Philippine deities, Philippine digital books, Philippine ebook, Philippine ebooks, Philippine gods, Philippine Kindle books, Philippine mythology, Philippine myths, Philippine Speculative Fiction, purchase Alternative Alamat, Raissa Rivera Falgui, reimagined myths, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Rocket Kapre, stories inspired by Philippine Mythology, Timothy James Dimacali, trese, Trese prose story, trese short story

The day has come! “Alternative Alamat“, our digital anthology of stories inspired by Philippine mythology, is now available for US$4.99 at the following fine establishments: Amazon.com - US$4.99 Flipreads.com (epub file) - PHP...
By Rocket Kapre on Oct 12, 2011 in:
News, Slider, 2011, A Door Opens, alternative alamat, Andrei Tupaz, announcement, anthology of Filipino stories, Balat, Balat Buwan Ngalan, Beneath The Acacia, budjette tan, Buwan, celestine trinidad, Conquering Makiling, David Hontiveros, Dean Alfar, digital anthology, digital book, ebook, Eliza Victoria, Fernando N. Zialcita, Fernando Zialcita, Flipside, Flipside Digital, Flipside Digital Content, Hinirang, Keeper of My Sky, kindle, kindle anthology, kindle book, Mervin Malonzo, Mo Francisco, mythic stories, myths reimagined, Ngalan, Offerings to Aman Sinaya, On Researching Philippine Mythology, Philippine epics, Philippine fantasy stories, Philippine legends, Philippine mythology, Philippine myths, Philippine Speculative Fiction, Philippine stories, Philippines, Raissa Rivera Falgui, Raymond G. Falgui, reimagined myths, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Rocket Kapre, Rocket Kapre anthology, Rocket Kapre Books, stories inspired by Philippine Mythology, table of contents, The Last Full Show, The Sorceress Queen, Timothy James Dimacali, TOC

It gives me great pleasure to finally be able to announce the table of contents of our first commercial anthology “Alternative Alamat: Stories Inspired by Philippine Mythology”. It’s been a long road, but I’ve enjoyed every st...
By Rocket Kapre on Oct 4, 2011 in:
News, 2011, A Night on Antioch Lane, Alex Osias, Alexander Osias, Dean Alfar, Escape by Dean Alfar, Kenneth Yu, PGS, PGS Online, Philippine fantasy stories, Philippine Genre Stories, Philippine Genre Stories Online, Philippine Speculative Fiction, Philippine zombie stories, Triskaidekaturions, Vin Simbulan, Vincent Simbulan, zombies

All of the pieces for the third set of stories at PGS Online, co-edited by Kenneth Yu and Dean Alfar, have been uploaded to the site. If you haven’t read them yet, here they are (click on the image to go to the story):...
By Rocket Kapre on Aug 31, 2011 in:
News, 2011, Philippine Speculative Fiction, Philippine Speculative Fiction 6, Philippine Speculative Fiction VI, PSF, PSF6, PSF6 review, PSFVI, PSFVI review, Review, reviews

Over on his blog, “KyusiReader“, Peter Sandico has a review up of Philippine Speculative Fiction volume 6. In the review, Peter mentions how he discovered the book when fellow blogger Honey picked it for the August Book of the Month of th...