BookTalk (Ep. 2): Making a Living from Writing
For this weekend’s #BookTalk, Cindy, Cris and Kate will talk about ways on how to earn from writing. If you want to make a living from your passion, this episode is for you!
For this weekend’s #BookTalk, Cindy, Cris and Kate will talk about ways on how to earn from writing. If you want to make a living from your passion, this episode is for you!
Where do I begin? Perhaps I should start with my goal ten years ago. I always enjoyed writing and reading my own stories when I was younger. For me, it seemed I was recording my thoughts and my imaginations, and these fictitious characters in my head. I hoped people would…


Recently, we launched books by two writers from Leyte: Doctor Jervy Plimaco Garcia of a memoir, The Doctor is Finally In and Jeian Nirza Putol of Agianan, a poetry collection. While different in genre, both are easy to read, reflective and relatable. The back-to-back launch of Waray writers only proves…


Have you ever stop at a red light, stolen a quick kiss with someone beside you, then watched as the light turns green and you’re off to the next place—rarely looking back, but never quite forgetting that split second? That’s the feeling at the heart of Stoplight Kisses, a poetry…


Kate Blackquill, millennial, chameleon, and avid reader, has spent more time writing for fun than with the view to publishing. But she started taking writing and sharing her work more widely when she read an interview by Matthew Reilly, who said, “There’s no such thing as an aspiring writer. You…


Are we searching for love in the wrong places? Joanna Villamor’s Home Is Here takes the readers on a journey of realization where love truly resides. Anchored on themes of family, friendship, and belonging, Joanna deconstructs long-established grand notions of love. Through lines and verses, the collection reveals that love…


LIPA, BATANGAS–8letters Bookstore and Publishing, along with other participating publishers from Indie Pub Collab PH, joins the Book Development Association of the Philippines (BDAP) and the National Book Development Board (NBDB) in a celebration of local literature from August 5 to 7, 11 AM to 7 PM, at The Outlets,…