Roger B Rueda
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Editor/Author/Journalist |
| Location | Iloilo City, Philippines |
| Introduction | is the author of the books, 'A Plain and Practically Lucid English Grammar' (CentralBooks, 2009) and 'Paolo: A Novel' (AntBooks, 2011) . He's currently working on another novel titled, 'The Professors' (AntBooks, 2012) and a grammar 'Understanding & Using Hiligaynon Grammar' (Centralbooks, 2012). A book, 'Vocabulary Workshop' (AntBooks) and a book 'Solitude:Poems' (CentralBooks)are going to be out early in 2012. (The characters in his novels and short stories are strictly fictional, but all reflect the multitude of interesting people he has met over the years. When not teaching, writing fiction, both novels and short stories, has become the most fulfilling of pastimes. Also, he takes pleasure in drinking tea or coffee, playing duckpins, and eating ice cream.) His poems, short stories, and essays have appeared in publications that include The Sunday Times Magazine, Philippine Panorama, Home Life, Hiligaynon, NCCA Mantala, Files, The Antithesis Collective, and Philippines Graphic. He received writer's fellowships from the U. P. Institute of Creative Writing (in 2002, poetry) and Mindanao State University (in 2005, fiction). He's editor for the magazines Ripe and 8finity. |
| Interests | Writing short stories, poems, and essays Teaching ESL and prose writing Drawing grimalkins Enriching my word-hoard Burying myself in The New Yorker and TIME magazines Travelling Boning up Chinese, Spanish, and French Shopping Facebooking |
| Favorite movies | Mano Po films Bourne films Pierre Morel's Taken Yu Ha's A Frozen Flower Ridley Scott's Gladiator |
| Favorite music | Parokya ni Edgar (jolly good music) Spice Girls (metroactive music) British Sea Power Madonna Janet Jackson Josh Groban Jose Mari Chan Stevie Wonder Patti Page Wonder Girls Lady Gaga |
| Favorite books | BARBARA KINGSOLVER A Prodigal Summer Poisonwood Bible Bean Trees JEFFREY ARCHER A Prisoner of Birth ROBERT LUDLUM The Scarlatti Inheritance The Chancellor Manuscript ERICA JONG Fear of Flying Seducing the Demon Love Comes First EDITH L TIEMPO The Builder Alien Corn ROALD DAHL Charlie and the Chocolate Factory My Uncle Oswald, and Sometime Never: A Fable for Supermen DORIS LESSING The Cleft The Sweetest Dream Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice Ravelstein by Saul Bellow Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut Road to Mawab and Other Stories by Leoncio P Deriada Oldtimer and Other Stories by Jose Y Dalisay Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian The Lost Books of the Odysseyby Zachary Mason Saving CeeCee Honeycuttby Beth Hoffman Gator A-Go-Goby Tim Dorsey Dear John by Nicholas Sparks Worst Case (Michael Bennett Series #3) by James Patterson The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Flirt (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series #18) by Laurell K. Hamilton The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger |