News Updates on PALHBOOKS
PALH is proud to announce that some of its titles will be showcased at the 2024 Frankfurt Book Fair including:A River, One-Woman Deep: Stories by Linda Ty-Casper (also published by UST Ph)Will You Happen, Past the Silence, Through the Dark: Remembering Leonard Ralph Casper by Linda Ty-Casper (also published by the Ateneo de Manila)Benedicta Takes Wing and Other Stories by Veronica Montes (also published by UST Ph)Magdalena by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard (also published by UST Ph)The Newspaper Widow by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard (also published by UST Ph)Selected Short Stories by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard (also published by UST Ph)
When the Rainbow Goddess Wept by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard will also be at the 2024 Frankfurt Book Fair (published by UST PH and University of Michigan Press)
Anthologies edited by Cecilia Brainard:Asian and Philippine FolktalesContemporary Fiction by Filipinos in AmericaFiction by Filipinos in AmericaGrowing Up Filipino 1,2, and 3Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, who will be a Philippine delegate at the the Frankfurt Book Fair will will be on hand to discuss the books she authored and edited; and she will also discuss titles published by PALH. For the PALH catalogue- scan QR code above.Further, PALH announces the forthcoming publications:Fundamentals of Creative Writing, Revised and Expanded Edition by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard. This was published by Anvil in 2012 but is now out of print. The author has revised and expanded the book which is used by many teachers of creative writing.Magnificat: Mama Mary's Pilgrim Sites, collected and edited by Cecilia Brainard - this religious book includes personal testimonies of individuals and the book has an Imprimatur by Archbishop of Manila Luis Tagle.PALH is also proud to announce that Linda Ty-Casper's Will You Happen, Past the Silence, Through the Dark: Remembering Leonard Ralph Casper (PALH 2022) has a Philippine edition by the Ateneo de Manila Press (2023). Linda Ty-Casper's novel, Tri-Cornered Sun was reissued in 2024 by Exploding Galaxies in Manila.Veronica Montes' Benedicta Takes Wing and Other Stories, published by PALH in 2017 has a Philippine edition by the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House (2024).Please visit PALHBOOKS.com for more information.
Fundamentals of Creative Writing, Revised and Expanded Edition is a practical how-to-write book that can be used as a text book or it can be read by those interested in learning how to write. The author Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, an award-winning fiction writer, who taught for over 25 years at UCLA Extension’s Writers Program and other universities, shares all the tools needed to write fiction and creative non-fiction. She breaks down the basic elements of creative writing such as setting, scene, character, conflict, dialogue, plot, and so on into sections. Each section starts with a concept, followed by related exercises, and a story or two to illustrate the creative writing component just discussed.
This book includes the author’s advice to beginning writers, and a lengthy interview of the author, in which the author discusses her background, what got her started in writing, the struggles she faced, her development as a writer. She also discusses the genesis of some of her stories including her three novels.
The author’s no-nonsense approach makes this book useful to many instructors of Creative Writing who will appreciate the straightforward guidance, writing activities, and complementary stories in the book. This book, Fundamentals of Creative Writing, Revised and Expanded Edition offers more information to demystify and explain the writing process thus enhancing the learning experience of the beginning writer.
A slimmer first edition of Fundamentals of Creative Writing was published by Anvil in 2009 and used by many teachers of Creative Writing.
Press Release - https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2024/08/fundamentals-of-creative-writing.html
Cecilia Brainard here, writer editor and publisher of PALH or Philippine American Literary House.
We've taken the time during this pandemic to publish the hardcover edition of Growing Up Filipino: Stories for Young Adults. Through the years, the book has been pirated and sold illegally in hardcover form. We finally took the time to publish a hardcover for this book. Look for it and please recommend it to your librarian.
PALH has also published softcover US paperback Editions of two fine anthologies that were originally published in the Philippines: Fiction by Filipinos in America and Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America. These are available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other online bookshops. Ingram and other distributors carry these titles. These books are excellent collections of short stories by Filipino and Filipino American authors and deserve to be in American libraries.
Here are additional information of interest about our other books:
PALH’s titles include:
Linda Ty-Casper’s A River, One-Woman Deep, Stories, of which World Literature Today’s Nota Bene section reviewed: “In this collection of stories, Filipina American Linda Ty-Casper runs her finger along the scars left behind in the wake of historical events in the Philippines parsing out what it means to live through and after the trauma of dictatorships and war.
Ty-Casper’s A River, One-Woman Deep: Stories is also published by the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House in the Philippines.
PALH’s author of Benedicta Takes Wing and Other Stories, Veronica Montes, recently won the Black Lawrence Price for their Black River Chapbook Competition. Her debut collection of 14 stories, Benedicta Takes Wing and other Stories, has been praised as stories that explore the intricate workings of Filipino families as they struggle to define their place in the world.
Further PALH published a Special International Edition, titled Please, San Antonio! and Melisande in Paris, 2 novellas set in Italy and in France. Authored by Eve La Salle Caram and Cecilia Brainard, the stories are about women who find healing in relationships. The book also has delightedly illustrations by Nina Lim-Yuson.
Thanks for your time, and I’m hoping you will support the work of Philippine American Literary House so it can continue fine Filipino and Filipino American books. Look for palhbooks.com or in Facebook, search Philippine American Literary House.
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Salamat 2/21/21
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