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Irvin Embalsado

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Born

in Antipolo City, Philippines

December 31, 1995

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https://www.irvinembalsado.com

Genre

Fantasy

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Irvin Embalsado is a Filipino chemist, engineer, and theater enthusiast whose fascination with science and storytelling eventually converged in A Particular Boy Among Air Particles, his debut fantasy novel.

He began writing stories and poetry in 2005, winning a school poetry competition the following year, before spending much of his later life between laboratories, stages, and corporate spaces. Long before this novel existed in its current form, the name Xhasenthor had already appeared in unfinished stories and earlier attempts at building worlds.

While pursuing his MBA in Rotterdam, reading dozens of fantasy novels and thrillers finally inspired him to return to a dream he had carried for nearly twenty years.

His work is shaped by a lifelong ...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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