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Aren't the covers pretty? There, I've been wanting to put these covers side by side and post them online for the past few weeks. These are the covers for the ebook editions of Philippine Speculative Fiction (PSF), Vols. 1-4. And yes, we published them. The ebook editions, I mean, as the print ones were independently published by Dean Alfar and company since 2005. The covers were made by our production editor, Adam David , and our artist, Lester Banzuelo (better known to others as the drummer of Fuseboxx . Yeah, we cool like that. Or, at least, he is.). I remember passing by Adam and Lester's workstations as I was walking to our office pantry when I had to stop because I saw the covers on their screens. I think they were working on the Vol. 4 cover by then. When I saw the sinister Christmas-y cover, I believe I felt what can only be described as "kilig" (rough English translation: "to be tickled pink"). I would've giggled, but I was trying ha...

Gillian Anderson as Lily Bart. I did not know about this. ( img src ) So I'm cramming my reading of The House of Mirth. In time for my book club 's discussion this Saturday. I'm at 10% so far in my ebook. And so far, I'm thinking this girl Lily Bart is sassy and perhaps an early version of the gals in Sex and the City. With the City but minus the sex. Unless I'm proven wrong, that is. On the work front, I'm pretty proud of the two webinars we held a couple of weeks ago. The first one was on the basics of ebook publishing . That was me. But the second one was more of the technical stuff in making ebooks . Our three production experts did that. Proud of the webinars because, well, I used to be a teacher. So I'm into educating and stuff. And because I think we had fun. So, hooray, am no longer a webinar virgin! Speaking of which, if any of you guys want to try webinars (both holding and attending them), I highly recommend the guys from Mayer Virtual C...