Announcement from the Author:

To everyone who has read this work, thank you so much.  I really appreciate the effort, the time, and the patience you have given this work.  I’m also grateful for all the comments, good and bad, that I have received for this work.  Your inputs were most valuable.

I have now taken Manila Rave down.  As much as it gives me great satisfaction to have this work of mine read and appreciated, I do not wish for it to remain merely as a weblog.  I’m not sure if this work deserves to exist in another form (or forms), but I for one would want to make it happen.

Manila Rave is the most personal work I have ever done so far.  What started off as a random thought turned into an exercise to keep my creative juices flowing.  And what was once merely an exercise turned into a work that I am unabashedly proud of. 

With that thought, I now come into terms with what I want to do with this work.  They are as follows:

• I want to publish Manila Rave
• Then, I want to turn it into a film

I want to see my work published because I simply want to hold Manila Rave in my hands as a book.  As simple as that.  I will look for a publisher.  If no one wants it, I will publish it myself.  Someday.  Really.  I’m not looking to make millions out of this (A BOOK?  In the Phillipines? FORGET IT!!!).  I just want to see this work published in a paperback format.

And I want to shoot Manila Rave as well.  Ever since, I saw this work unravel in my head.  I know every angle, I know every nuance.  I know what Aaron and Zarah look like, and I see, hear, feel, smell, and taste everythng that happens in this work.  And it’s all in my head, and now it wants to get out.  I have a maddening need to see this work in the physical world.  I need to get this work done.

So, with that, I will bid farewell to everyone reading this.  This blog will now be an update center everytime I come closer to realizing one of these two goals.  Realistically, I have a very, very long way to go.  These are not easy dreams, so I’m sure there will be no action in this blog for quite a while.  But the updates will come.  My goals will be realized.  Manila Rave will come back.

Thank you.

B Canapi