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Not Quite Unreal – A series of books by Carlos Malvar

Enter the world of the young, the rich, and the screwed-up.

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First Look! Crash: The Not Quite Unreal Sequel

It’s your first look at my new book!!! “Roles: A Not Quite Unreal Novel” is still available in bookstores everywhere for Php150.oo. “Crash: The Not Quite Unreal Sequel” will be available in bookstores everywhere starting next week for php200.00. (Just in case you’re wondering, as you can see, Crash is a much bigger, more massive, narrative! It’s [...]

17 October 2009 at 08:47 - Comments
maian
hi sir! our instructor in Lit125A (Philippine literature in English) required us to buy a novel in English by a ...
12 March 10 at 00:11
sir, our prof in LIT125A (Philippine literature in English) required us to buy an English novel by a Filipino writer. ...
12 March 10 at 00:16

Crash: The Not Quite Unreal Sequel – Deleted Scene 2 – The Catfight

Previously, I shared with you a deleted scene from my upcoming book. I deleted the “The Kiss” from the final manuscript because I felt it was discordant with the 2nd book as a whole. Now, I want to share with you another scene I deleted from the final draft. This one’s called “The Catfight”. I deleted [...]

13 October 2009 at 12:03 - Comments

Crash – Backcover Blurb

Here’s the blurb for “Crash: The Not Quite Unreal Sequel”: Life’s too short to slow down, and no one knows this better than the young, the rich, and the screwed-up. In “The Faster They Go…”, the kids of the M and the A and P face the biggest, most dramatic situation their pretty heads and shiny [...]

13 October 2009 at 11:35 - Comments

Crash: The Not Quite Unreal Sequel – Deleted Scene – The Kiss

I deleted several scenes from “Beta Draft” of Crash before I submitted the final manuscript to my publisher. Here’s one. In this deleted scene, the girls are up to no good. Please note that THIS SCENE DOES NOT AND WILL NOT APPEAR IN “Crash: The Not Quite Unreal Sequel” and should not be considered as [...]

22 September 2009 at 17:11 - Comments

Crash Fan-made Covers

Thanks to reader Jepz for sending these fan-made covers. Note: These are not the official cover for “Crash”, but they’re so amazing, I thought I’d share how much creativity Jepz has. Thanks, Jepz!!!

What do you guys think?

31 May 2009 at 19:51 - Comments
jepz
thank you! :))
10 September 09 at 04:12
Ralf
:3 ok pareho. Official na ba sa 20 yung release ng book :3, Can't wait...
15 October 09 at 11:49

This Time I Mean It

No shit. “CRASH” is finally done! Finished writing the Beta Draft of ‘Crash’ today. The Beta Draft’s basically 1st Draft + Additional Materials.  I’ll still be editing it in the next few days for grammar, coherence, and the response of my advance readers. The first draft has a word count of 26, 672. To give you an [...]

31 May 2009 at 19:43 - Comments

Sorry. I’m sooo sorry.

My previous announcement re: the completion of my next novel may have been premature. In my excitement to bring the story to the audience, I have rushed several aspects of the telling, and now, looking over the manuscript I have written, I realize how sorely lacking it is in terms of development, and in other [...]

2 April 2009 at 22:18 - Comments
klark
wow... i just got hooked to crash, i'm wonderin' if where I can buy Roles uhm... you also wrote Bloody Mary ...
15 December 09 at 13:32
sir, our prof in LIT125A (Philippine literature in English) required us to buy an English novel by a Filipino writer. ...
12 March 10 at 00:28

Crash – It’s a wrap!!!

Around 4 in the morning today, March 05, 2009, I have finished writing the next Not Quite Unreal novel, “Crash”. As I’ve discussed before, I actually wrote an ending the other night, but because I was subconsciously unhappy about it, I couldn’t sleep until I’ve written a new one. Upon analysis, I think my problem with [...]

5 March 2009 at 15:27 - Comments
Ady001
I've been following your blog around, though I can't find the book. Want to read it. Where to buy though? Also, ...
5 June 09 at 13:30

Discarding a Night’s Work

Even with barely 2 hours of sleep for the past 24 hours, I woke mid-morning today and couldn’t go back to sleep. I was restless. Something was troubling me in bed, something I couldn’t quite put my finger on. So, having accepted the futility of trying to go back to sleep, I slid my pink [...]

4 March 2009 at 13:31 - Comments
Joshia
*AHEM!* Pink blinders?
10 March 09 at 19:39
john vergel d. briones
ganda naman nung ending . ; )
24 January 10 at 03:27

One Eye Half Blind

I am currently writing with one eye half blind, much thanks to a freak contact lens related tragedy caused by an onset of blinking and aridity of the room I’m writing in. I now type this with a wink frozen on the right side of my face, semi-permanently distorting my otherwise pretty face. Hopefully, today’s the [...]

1 March 2009 at 14:22 - Comments
i have read already the Not Quite Unreal sequel of yoiur novel Crush and it was realy fascinating thax I ...
4 February 10 at 14:20
sir, our prof in LIT125A (Philippine literature in English) required us to buy an English novel by a Filipino writer. ...
12 March 10 at 00:26