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Hello Ms. Raissa! I am a Fine Arts student from UST and for my thesis, I have chosen your book Woman in a Frame as my thesis topic to turn into an animation. A friend of mine got me a copy of your book during the MIBF 2019, and it has turned into one of my favorite books. I was wondering what inspired you to create the story and plot for it?
Raissa Rivera Falgui Thanks for your kind words. I wrote my thesis on women artists of the 19th century inspired by an article by Santiago Pilar. I interviewed him later and he told me about his fascinating search for old portraits. The stories he told inspired the book!
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Hi! Hope you're doing well. :) I am an aspiring author and would like to ask you some questions because of your amazing background in writing. Is there another way I can talk to you or do you prefer it through here? I want to make stories like the Virtual Center so I'm also writing but after that, I don't know what to do! Also, you can always say no to my questions for no reason, I always respect boundaries. Ty!
Raissa Rivera Falgui Love your name, Dakila! Sorry I only saw this now. You can let me know if you have a particular question or link me to your work if you want me to comment on it. Good luck on your writing.
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Good day! May I please ask where I can read Virtual Center?
Raissa Rivera Falgui The anthology published by Penguin SEA. Try Fully Booked for paperback editions in the Philippines. For ebooks:
https://penguin.sg/book/virtual-cente...
https://www.amazon.com/Virtual-Center...

A shorter earlier version is found in REX Books' 21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World [ e-Book: PDF ]
₱290.00. Thanks for the interest!
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You're currently writing good romances (saying "good" as opposed to the tawdry types) and blending other fields or disciplines into them such as art history and anthropology, although I am curious, have you ever considered writing horror or have you written some before? Thanks!
Raissa Rivera Falgui Not really a horror person though I do the occasional ghost story. I can do spooky but not gory stuff. Not yet, anyway.
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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?
Raissa Rivera Falgui My husband and I were the main inspiration for Love Among the Geeks! We are terribly analytical about love, yet very romantic all the same. I thought that a biologist would be even more analytical but less romantic, and despite his feelings be determined to reduce love to a hormonal reaction.

I've had the idea for this book for a while, really. It was originally supposed to be YA and start with the weird hotel room scene, but I didn't know where to take it from there. Then I got an idea for another story from an account in the Reader's Digest about a woman who got married just so her mother, who had terminal cancer, "could see her in a wedding dress." She immediately annulled the marriage. I thought a lot about that, because in my country, getting married and annulled are a lot more difficult than in the US, where that woman was from. Somehow the two story ideas ended up together. Clearly they--like the characters inspired by them--were meant for each other!
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