Litera by Dr. Lester N. Linsangan
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I am an introvert, and I have a fear of public speaking. I am a hesitant writer. I am terrified of this pandemic. But these things did not stop me from trying this industry (an industry that demands the opposite of these "things') because I believe that every person has powerful stories that can uplift, motivate, influence, and inspire others to become the best versions of themselves. For this simple reason, I cultivated my passion. I caught the shiniest star amidst darkness during this global health crisis through this book, titled Litera.
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Layers of Beauty by Duilio Papi
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I’m 54 years old and live a single life in Milano (Italy), where I was born. My main feature is to be eclectic. I feel the need to share my thinking differently: Poetry, Theatre, Photography, History, Politics, and Technological items of this complex age. My job has nothing to do with my art. I’m a project manager that addresses IT activities. My life is a challenge against the time to complete the job, remain within the budget, and grant the sustainability of results. It is of compromise drowned in a lot of cups of coffee. Some years ago, I found a way to survive to my specific and try to investigate the reality around me in poetry. I discovered a way to communicate and tell my wave on this sea of humanity that crosses me daily. This book speaks of the beauty that comes from the everyday aspects of life. It does not tell extraordinary events or situations at the limit but the tiredness and grace of normality. I think the ideal readers of this poetry compilation could be the people that lost the ability to find the extraordinary in their everyday life. It isn’t an optimistic compilation of poetry but a positive one that teaches the readers to have a different perspective of everyday situations. This book is not a complaint or a rant against someone or something but simply the sharing of my experience. Therefore, a particular point of view is unique and singular but equally aligned with experiences that can live in many and review the reflex of their lives. I spent about one year writing this book. It is the result of different versions. What inspired this book are easily the persons, the street, and the actions of my usual way. Friend, job, places, and travel in the time are found in the eyes of the persons and their activities. You can taste a miracle in the normality or a suggestion looking differently at what is around you. The ability to smile and enjoy the normal without extending into high-sounding dreams is already a miracle. Writing this book has helped me find myself in difficult moments, and this was a grace that has given me a tremendous existential density. Considering that I am an eclectic, I hope to give other reasons to reflect, see themselves again in their purity and under their masks. At this moment, after I had written eight books speaking of my life experience, I would like to write something dedicated to my country, as if I was a historical witness. There is so much to do to improve in this homeland of mine. We need to understand our past to avoid the defects and become a better community. People of this world are stressing out. May this collection help you to accept your time, live your moment in an intense way, and taste life anew. Miracle exists and stays. Forward your eyes; it is enough to train to see. Absorb the energy and contemplate on a different sound in our human travel.
Tales and Poems: Spotlight on Italian Authors Antonello Di Carlo, Project Leader
Antonello Di Carlo
Writer, poet, translator, and researcher City Reggio nell'Emila (Italy) Tales and Poems Hi, my name is Antonello Di Carlo. I am an Italian poet, writer, and translator. For the last two years, I have been fighting to spread and share Italian literature worldwide. In 2020 I met Ayo Gutierrez and her excellent work of promoting authors and books with whom I shared the dream of internationalizing Italian manuscripts. I have recently created an anthology project, Tales and Poems, that collects 28 Italian talents to export these beautiful writings and allows all those who write and read in English to benefit from our literary contribution. This anthology is different from other books because after so many years of Italian publishing, stopping to translate essential texts, Tales and Poems is the first and new experiment. In the anthology, there are nine portions of novels of the most varied genres (from diary to fantasy and thriller) and 110 poems by 19 different poets that are of excellent workmanship and will undoubtedly enrich the global book market. I hope that the authors of this book, through the superb work of GMGA Publishing, understand that the important thing for an author is to be read, no matter what language it is in. Promotion is a critical moment for a book that has the pretension of being distributed worldwide. I believe that if authors of Tales and Poems understand the value of investing in promotion as an essential and determining factor in the success of a book, then it means that I have succeeded in making them understand the importance of translating into English and promoting their text. Two new anthologies are coming out soon: That Word Called Love and Pages in the World, with more substantial ambitions from the first. In addition, I have translated several authors into English and will continue to do so to the best of my ability by recommending promotion with GMGA Publishing.
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Name of Author: Conrado S. Perreras
Title of the Book: Bamboo: The Timber of the 21st Century
Would you please introduce yourself?
I am an economist by training, a marketer by profession, and an entrepreneur by choice. An advocate for life in protecting and preserving the environment, overall wellness, and good governance
Tell us about your book. Who are your target readers?
It is a comprehensive assessment of the state of the bamboo industry and how it can transform itself to be the timber of the 21st century. It concerns itself with providing a roadmap for the government and the private sector in revolutionizing the bamboo sector of the country. It is therefore directed first and foremost to policymakers responsible for the future of the industry. It also serves as a briefing paper for everyone else interested in the logic of the bamboo industry. 3. What makes it different from the existing books in the market? Existing books on bamboo are too technical and challenging to read. They were mostly written by scientists and meant as textbooks or technical references on bamboo. My book is a layman's presentation on the supply and demand for bamboo, describing the industry's value chain. I wrote it for business people and entrepreneurs wanting to get into the business of bamboo: establishing nurseries, developing plantations, harvesting, and processing of bamboo into handicrafts, furniture, and most especially engineered bamboo products where the future of the industry belongs. It is a roadmap that describes where we are and where we are going, how we will get there, how much it will cost, and who is responsible for making things happen.
Please share your journey writing this book. Who has been your inspiration? How long did it take you to finish it?
My journey started way back during my childhood when my father instilled discipline with me by using a bamboo stick and extended to my experience in building a bamboo table as part of my industrial art in elementary school. It came to a life and death situation when I almost drowned during the great floods of the late sixties, and my father saved me using a bamboo pole as a floater. When I was active in Rotary, I was at the forefront of a project called Bamboo for Life which advocated the planting and use of bamboo for livelihood generation. Harnessing the best of science and technology for people and the environment led to the formation of the Bamboo Network of the Philippines with scientists, entrepreneurs, and advocates. Our network helps craft the Executive Order that led to the establishment of the Philippine Bamboo Industry Development Council, where I sat in the Board of Trustees and Cabinet Secretaries of the DTI, DENR, DA, DOST, DOLE, DEPED, LMP, and industry associations and non-government organizations.
I traveled around the country to promote our bamboo advocacy and partnered with private donors and LGUs to plant bamboo in marginal lands to put up integrated bamboo operations as a source of income and employment for our people. Bamboo has become an instrument in pursuing the triple bottom lines: people, planet, and profit. Then I wanted to teach in the graduate school of an establishment but did not have the degree to qualify me. So I enrolled in its MBA Program and obtained a master's degree in business administration even though I already took my master's in industrial economics immediately after college. My master thesis was on strengthening the supply of bamboo for furniture, handicrafts, and engineered bamboo products as the basis for crafting a roadmap for the industry. I was engaged earlier by the Department of Trade and Industry to write a paper for this purpose. In a more concise and easy-to-read manner, I put together what I have been doing all along in the bamboo advocacy, which started in Rotary and ended up in a master's degree. I adopted my master thesis into a book and published it during my 70th birthday to pay back to society for the many blessings I received. It is my gift to the Filipino People and the rest of humanity.
What do you hope your readers or your target community will get from reading your book?
It is my fervent hope that the readers of my book will realize that the lowly bamboo can be an instrument to a better life by transforming it into a progressive, dynamic, competitive industry with a sustainable resource base. I wanted to provide a roadmap to minimize trial and error in setting up large-scale integrated bamboo operations throughout the country for those in business and industry. I wanted to open their eyes to bamboo's possibilities for the rest of my readers, hoping that they will patronize bamboo products in their everyday lives.
What is your vision for this book?
This book is on the supply side of the bamboo industry; the sequel to this book is about the demand side of the bamboo industry. My next book on bamboo focuses on the feasibility studies on setting up micro, small and medium scale enterprises. It will explore what else can be done with bamboo as a raw material for sophisticated products in the future. It will also explore a thorough investigation on how to effectively compete in the world market and have our rightful market share.
What are your future projects and endeavors?
I am in the process of crafting my roadmap for personal governance. I plan to write my autobiography with the end in mind of describing what I will be doing for the rest of my professional life. My future books will focus on my journey to wellness, good governance, and the environment. I may also write about my Toastmasters journey by compiling all my speeches in the 12 paths in Pathways.
Would you please invite them to buy your book?
Instead of just buying a book for yourself, please pledge your support to the bamboo advocacy by getting more books to share with your family, friends, and associates. Please help us create the multiplier effect across the country and help the bamboo revolution that we are waging to transform bamboo into the timber of the 21st century.
Title of the Book: Bamboo: The Timber of the 21st Century
Would you please introduce yourself?
I am an economist by training, a marketer by profession, and an entrepreneur by choice. An advocate for life in protecting and preserving the environment, overall wellness, and good governance
Tell us about your book. Who are your target readers?
It is a comprehensive assessment of the state of the bamboo industry and how it can transform itself to be the timber of the 21st century. It concerns itself with providing a roadmap for the government and the private sector in revolutionizing the bamboo sector of the country. It is therefore directed first and foremost to policymakers responsible for the future of the industry. It also serves as a briefing paper for everyone else interested in the logic of the bamboo industry. 3. What makes it different from the existing books in the market? Existing books on bamboo are too technical and challenging to read. They were mostly written by scientists and meant as textbooks or technical references on bamboo. My book is a layman's presentation on the supply and demand for bamboo, describing the industry's value chain. I wrote it for business people and entrepreneurs wanting to get into the business of bamboo: establishing nurseries, developing plantations, harvesting, and processing of bamboo into handicrafts, furniture, and most especially engineered bamboo products where the future of the industry belongs. It is a roadmap that describes where we are and where we are going, how we will get there, how much it will cost, and who is responsible for making things happen.
Please share your journey writing this book. Who has been your inspiration? How long did it take you to finish it?
My journey started way back during my childhood when my father instilled discipline with me by using a bamboo stick and extended to my experience in building a bamboo table as part of my industrial art in elementary school. It came to a life and death situation when I almost drowned during the great floods of the late sixties, and my father saved me using a bamboo pole as a floater. When I was active in Rotary, I was at the forefront of a project called Bamboo for Life which advocated the planting and use of bamboo for livelihood generation. Harnessing the best of science and technology for people and the environment led to the formation of the Bamboo Network of the Philippines with scientists, entrepreneurs, and advocates. Our network helps craft the Executive Order that led to the establishment of the Philippine Bamboo Industry Development Council, where I sat in the Board of Trustees and Cabinet Secretaries of the DTI, DENR, DA, DOST, DOLE, DEPED, LMP, and industry associations and non-government organizations.
I traveled around the country to promote our bamboo advocacy and partnered with private donors and LGUs to plant bamboo in marginal lands to put up integrated bamboo operations as a source of income and employment for our people. Bamboo has become an instrument in pursuing the triple bottom lines: people, planet, and profit. Then I wanted to teach in the graduate school of an establishment but did not have the degree to qualify me. So I enrolled in its MBA Program and obtained a master's degree in business administration even though I already took my master's in industrial economics immediately after college. My master thesis was on strengthening the supply of bamboo for furniture, handicrafts, and engineered bamboo products as the basis for crafting a roadmap for the industry. I was engaged earlier by the Department of Trade and Industry to write a paper for this purpose. In a more concise and easy-to-read manner, I put together what I have been doing all along in the bamboo advocacy, which started in Rotary and ended up in a master's degree. I adopted my master thesis into a book and published it during my 70th birthday to pay back to society for the many blessings I received. It is my gift to the Filipino People and the rest of humanity.
What do you hope your readers or your target community will get from reading your book?
It is my fervent hope that the readers of my book will realize that the lowly bamboo can be an instrument to a better life by transforming it into a progressive, dynamic, competitive industry with a sustainable resource base. I wanted to provide a roadmap to minimize trial and error in setting up large-scale integrated bamboo operations throughout the country for those in business and industry. I wanted to open their eyes to bamboo's possibilities for the rest of my readers, hoping that they will patronize bamboo products in their everyday lives.
What is your vision for this book?
This book is on the supply side of the bamboo industry; the sequel to this book is about the demand side of the bamboo industry. My next book on bamboo focuses on the feasibility studies on setting up micro, small and medium scale enterprises. It will explore what else can be done with bamboo as a raw material for sophisticated products in the future. It will also explore a thorough investigation on how to effectively compete in the world market and have our rightful market share.
What are your future projects and endeavors?
I am in the process of crafting my roadmap for personal governance. I plan to write my autobiography with the end in mind of describing what I will be doing for the rest of my professional life. My future books will focus on my journey to wellness, good governance, and the environment. I may also write about my Toastmasters journey by compiling all my speeches in the 12 paths in Pathways.
Would you please invite them to buy your book?
Instead of just buying a book for yourself, please pledge your support to the bamboo advocacy by getting more books to share with your family, friends, and associates. Please help us create the multiplier effect across the country and help the bamboo revolution that we are waging to transform bamboo into the timber of the 21st century.
Bamboo: The Timber of the 21st Century
