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Frank A Hilario, Your Digital FAH – Friend And Helper

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Frank A Hilario is a 9-in-1 digital information specialist, from A to I: Author, Blogger, Communicator, Desktop Publisher, Editor in Chief, Forest-Conservation Advocate, Ghostwriter, Home-Based Information Editor, and In-House Editor-Publisher. All work-from-home (WFH). Friend, how may I help you?! Author – Since 2000, I have authored at least 13 books: 8 books for the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), 2 for UPLB Vanguards, 1 on Jose Rizal, 1 on UP Los Baños alumni, and 1 coffee-table book for Agricultural Credit Policy Council (ACPC). Blogger – Since 2000, I have blogged about 8,000 essays (about 8 million words), mostly on agriculture and related fields.   Communicator – In 1980, I invented the art & system of Communication for Development ( ComDev); 40 years later, I transformed it into Communication for Village Development in the 21st Century (CoViD21). Today, Agriculture motivates me to do CoViD21. Desktop Publisher (DTP) –...

Looking For An Editor? You Have A Manuscript That Needs Editing. My Advice: “Choose One Who Is Client-Friendly, Digital – And Has Many Years Of Experience!”

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What type of manuscript/s do you have that need editing to be good, better, best – book, dissertation, journal-candidate, lecture, manuscript for publication, technical paper, or thesis? As an Editor in Agriculture and related fields, I can help you produce an A-1 manuscript very fast – given my 47 years of experience, and in the last 21 years all-digital. (I can also desktop-publish a whole journal issue, or a whole magazine, or a whole book, for you! I have excellent experiences with those.) (Image sources: “Freelance Editor” from well-storied, well-storied.com ; “Client Friendly” from client-friendly.co, client-friendly.co ) Your Editor must be one who is “client-friendly,” as according to client-friendly.co. Yes, hyphen is necessary; and co , not . com – 2 examples of good proofreading, which calls for wide knowledge of the subject matter, which you should look for in an Editor. “I AM ADAM" – Here is a complete list of editorial services offered by Frank A Hilario as a o...

“Writer’s Champ Vs Writer’s Cramp” – You Are One Of Our Modern Indios Bravos If You Can Start – And Then Finish Writing Your Book!

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In these unpredictable times, long after the Spanish conquerors called us Filipinos “Indios,” you have to be an Indian Brave if you want to write your autobiography or memoirs. Actually, your first problem is not these challenging times but the time you spend writing your book! Do you know how to spend it wisely? I doubt it. This is an author of 20+ books – all of them written in drafts and finalized digitally – thank God , and Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak for the personal computer or PC! The image you see above is the cover of my Dec 2005 book titled “ indios bravos! Jose Rizal as Messiah of the Redemption.” Singly, I believe Rizal was not after Revolution but after Redemption of the Filipinos from mental slavery. Today, I am your Redeemer. I will redeem you from your writer’s cramp, your inability to write your book. I am your Writer’s Champ who guarantees you no Writer’s Cramp! What is a Writer-Editor with 50+ years experience and who published his own 20+ books good for? (No...

The Dilemma Of My Friend Nestor Maniebo Pestelos, (Not) Coming Out With His Personal-Social Memoirs At 81!

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Nestor Maniebo Pestelos from Tiaong, Quezon, married & living in Tagbilaran City, Bohol, is a good friend of mine, mind, dating back 60+ years when we were students at UPCA, now UP Los Baños – we both took the competitive writing exam for the Editor In Chief of the UPCA Student Body Organization ’s newspaper called Aggie Green & Gold , and he won. He already had content and style, from voracious reading, including Jean-Paul Sarte – existentialist. Me, never heard of him! And you know what Nestor Mn Pestelos did as Editor In Chief? He appointed Frank A Hilario, a stranger, full-blooded Ilocano, Tagalog Editor ! A historical first. Ah, but in high school, I had been devouring Liwayway and Bulaklak ! The other day or so, I saw Nestor’s Lament on Facebook, this: Nestor Maniebo Pestelos NOTES TO MYSELF AT 70 (… First time to be posted)… Surprised I found this in my digital file. This was written 9 years ago, when I reached 70. Must find time to finish it now that I feel my b...

Frank A Hilario, Out-Of-Eden ADAM – All-Around Advanced Digital Assistant For Manuscript Management

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"I AM ADAM" means "I am an All-Around Advanced Digital Assistant For Modern Manuscript Management” at your service! My one-man-band work for the issues of 2001-2008 as Editor In Chief of the Philippine Journal of Crop Science (PJCS) published by the Crop Science Society of the Philippines (CSSP) based at UP Los Baños in Laguna, is an excellent example of what I can do for anybody, or any group, with my skills as ADAM – “All-Around Advanced Digital Assistant For Modern Manuscript Management” – that is an original coinage. With the PJCS, I did everything except write the papers published – I did write the editorial, though; and I designed the covers of all the 22 issues of PJCS that I worked on until it became “ISI” – meaning, it was listed in the internationally prestigious list called ISI (now Web of Science ). This is from the 03 June 2013 essay that I uploaded to my blog named after me: Frank A Hilario ( frankahilario.blogspot.com ), where I said pertinently about th...