Grey Matter Launches Three Books to Break the Rules

From desktop to book shelf, from fancy fonts to plain old Times New Roman, Grey Matter Publishing launches three blog-originated titles: The Chronicles of E, The Wet Book: Stories from the Bathhouse, and Dear Migs: Letters to Manila Gay Guy.

Finding their way from online pages to ink and paper, Grey Matter Publishing aims to bring to a wider reading public these tales of the alternative lifestyle, with stories that intend to take you through certain points of the rainbow colored spectrum of the gay life.

Chronicle of E is a tale of hope and redemption; told through the unblinking details of the titular E’s memoir of substance addiction, brief foray into prostitution, acceptance of his HIV status and hopeful recrimination.

The Wet Book: Stories from the Bathhouse is an insider’s documentation of bathhouse shenanigans that are sometimes sexy, silly and always funny as narrated by Ad-executive by day, hygiene establishment patron and comic by night McVie. The book was edited by celebrated film maker Raymond Lee.

Edited by theater critic Gibbs Cadiz, Dear Migs: Letters to Manila Gay Guy is culled from Manila Gay Guy Migs’ well-kept community of the brokenhearted, the confused and the Margarita Holmes-hopefuls. Migs’ blog has been generating, on average, more than 40,000 daily views from all over the world, making it one of the most-read and most-accessed blogs in the Philippines.

First time publisher Grey Matter hopes that by bringing these people’s stories to actual bookshelves, that the gray matter of society can be viewed as something to be read, talked about and shared. That through story-telling, universal matters of hope, love and fun, can be seen as matters of an accepting and appreciative community.

The launch was held on July 10, 2010. It was in collaboration with Rock Ed’s The Safety Series that aims to promote safe sex awareness.

These books are now available online at mybookstore.ph. They will be available in major bookstores soon.