Contemplations

Hi and welcome to my blog; the musings of a Filipino-American writer, martial artist and teacher. Thanks for stopping by. I look forward to hearing what you have to say about what I have to say.

08 August, 2012

A Small World Getting Smaller

Our small world just keeps getting smaller. I spent a few days on holiday at my wife’s friend’s cottage in Montauk, New York this past...

29 July, 2012

The Olympic Games

Well, The Olympic Games 2012 - London 2012 - are in full swing and I’m watching as much as I can. It’s putting a cramp in some of t...

08 July, 2012

Book Review: Running The Rift by Naomi Benaron

Book Review: Running The Rift by Naomi Benaron Naomi Benaron, winner of the Bellwether Prize for fiction, wrote a book tha...

Book Review: The Forever Girl by Rebecca Hamilton

Book Review: The Forever Girl by Rebecca Hamilton With the abundance of paranormal plus supernatural plus ghosts plus goblins...

18 June, 2012

Are pages in an ebook really pages?

I recently had lunch with two fellow Filipino writers - memoirist Carissa Villacorta and boxing journalist Ryan Songalia. Ryan wrote a fea...

11 June, 2012

Get Your Press Out, Know Your Royalty - Tips for Indie Authors

In April, I wrote a post called “Stage 2 - First Feature Article.” (Stage 1, of course, is the finishing, editing and publishing of my boo...

06 June, 2012

By The Prickling Of My Thumbs: Honouring Ray Bradbury

RIP Ray Bradbury. I’ve only read three of your books - Something Wicked This Way Comes , Fahrenheit 451 and The Illustrated Ma...

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About Me

Juan Rader Bas: Mabuhay! I'm an Asian American writer (Back Kicks And Broken Promises, Abbott Press, 2012), martial artist and teacher who was born in The Philippines, raised in Hong Kong and ended up in New Jersey.

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