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FROM THE AUTHOR

The seed for Pelicula was innocuous enough: very casual talk about some Internet rumour or other. Somehow, that spark collided with my long-abiding interest in live-action superheroics, and a novel was born.

Having completed the trio of Penumbra novellas (Takod, Craving, and Parman), I felt ready to tackle a longer story, and Pelicula appeared to have enough meat to warrant a novel-length treatment.

What ultimately emerged was not only something I hadn’t exactly anticipated, it was also a lot of things I’d never really attempted before in my fiction: it was a parody, a satire, a romance, and had gobbets of words and dialogue in Filipino and Taglish.

I’m proud of Pelicula, and extremely thankful to three individuals who helped in its genesis and in getting it where it is today: Nida, who saw it first in its entirety and gave it a thumbs up; and Carl and Budj, for all the support and help over the years (including this website).

And now that it’s toddled off onto the World Wide Web, I can only hope it amused, entertained, and enlightened you, just as much as it amused, entertained, and enlightened me, in the process of putting it all together.

Thanx for reading, and if you think a friend of yours would enjoy Pelicula too, feel free to email the link, and if you’d like to leave any words for me, please do, either here or at the Five-Legged Iguana.

Peace.

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