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Irvin Embalsado

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Born

in Antipolo City, Philippines

December 31, 1995

Website

https://www.irvinembalsado.com

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Fantasy

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Brandon Sanderson, Diana Wynne Jones, Terry Pratchett ...more

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Irvin Embalsado is a queer Filipino fantasy author, a member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA), and a registered author with the Philippines’ National Book Development Board (NBDB).

A board-certified chemist and theater enthusiast, he discovered his love of storytelling through writing short stories and poetry in his youth, earning several school writing awards along the way. He later brought that passion to the stage, performing lead roles in several university theater productions before pursuing a career in laboratory and corporate work.

While pursuing his MBA in the Netherlands, he found time to read more widely and rekindled his passion for writing. His return to fiction began with his debut fantasy novel, A P ...more

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Author Interview with Bibliophile Talks and Asian Book Lover's Club

Photo of me with my book loaded on Kindle... and Kendra posing behind me

Here is my first author interview with Bibliophile Talks!

In this interview, you can see how I started writing short stories when I was ten. My Gyarados, I was SO obsessed with Final Fantasy X and X-2 back then that I’m pretty sure they were my biggest influences. Then life happened. I did theater for several years before eventually becoming a chemist, then a corporate slave (which I kind of still Read more of this blog post »

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