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Jun 28, 2024

UST Publishing House unprofessional conduct

 Sarayan email inpawit kora nen 2022 ta aalagaren koy resulta na libron labay kon ipalapag na UST Publishing House. Natan sayan libro nipaakar ed Don Juan Alvear ipalapag na UP Press et onpaway ed ontumbok a taon.

Dear Sir: 

 

We are sorry if we offended you. Our team has been operating on a limited capacity due to the pandemic safety guidelines in place, and because different members of our team are assigned to monitor different email accounts and report to work on different days, there have been lapses on our part in keeping track of all the messages and handling the submitted documents. We apologize for that.

 

To this end, we have taken corrective measures in our internal office communication protocol, particularly in improving our monitoring system for logging submitted documents, to make sure that this does not happen again.

 

Again, please accept our sincere apologies.

 

Respectfully,

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University of Santo Tomas Publishing House
G/F Beato Angelico Bldg., University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines 1015
(+632) 3406-1611 loc. 8252
Please consider the environment before printing

On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 2:21 PM es fernandez <win1tree@yahoo.com> wrote:

Dear UST Publishing House

You know that this assertion is not true (a blatant lie) since it is required to submit a cover letter for manuscript submission. How can I as an author forget to send the contact details through the cover letter? If I did forget to include the cover letter (which is highly impossible), I emailed you on 7 February 2021 at publishing@ust.edu, the transcript is still available in my email and I quote from it: "Dear Sir: This is to acknowledge receipt of your manuscript, 2 hard copies and a CD, for evaluation. Thank you. UST Publishing House.” On that date, you already knew my email address as well as my telephone number as you can see below. So you cannot argue that you don't know my email address and telephone number. I followed up the following day on 8 February 2021 and on 14 July 2021 but did not get any reply. I even called your office on 18 November 2021 and after that date you should have exerted effort to contact me, to inform me about the status of the manuscript instead of waiting for me to follow up again two days ago or ten months after.

The honest thing that you can do is to admit your mistake and incompetence instead of blaming all this mess to me. In any case, I have submitted a letter to the rector detailing all this.

I am a published author abroad and this is NOT how they treat authors. They respond on time knowing that authors value time as they would want their works published as soon as possible. You are still far from becoming a "professional" publishing company that you aim for in your vision!

Keep the manuscripts and the cd because I would have someone pick them up in the coming days.

Sincerely
Erwin S. Fernandez
4 Mitura St. San Vicente West,
Urdaneta City, Pangasinan
2428 Philippines

Mobile: 639166608628
Skype: erwin.s.fernandez




On Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at 05:35:01 PM GMT+8, UST Publishing House <publishing.zoom@ust.edu.ph> wrote:


Dear Sir:

 

As we found no accompanying contact information in the manuscript sent to our office, our staff had to resort to other means to obtain your email address. We succeeded after inquiring from a representative of the National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA).

 

At any rate, we thank you for submitting your manuscript, “Ed maespiritu tan matua”: The Christian spiritist (A biography of Don Juan Alvear). We recognize its value, but we regretfully are unable to include your manuscript in the current editorial production. Should you wish to find a different publisher for your work, please feel free to do so.


Thank you for considering us as your first choice. We wish you success in finding a publisher for your work.


Sincerely,

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University of Santo Tomas Publishing House
G/F Beato Angelico Bldg., University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines 1015
(+632) 3406-1611 loc. 8252

Pinili anthology misrepresents Pangasinan short story

Sayan email agni naebatan daray angipalapag. Masulok lan sakey taon. Bumabangat iray litiratura tan salsalita balet mureng ira ta ag da amta no antoy pandumaan na Pangasinan tan Iloko.

 

29 January 2023

Dear Harold
It is only now that I learned that my short story in Pangasinan with my English translation was published in Pinili in 2019. Did or will you send copies to the authors? Reading the introduction by the editors, which you are one, and the foreword by Villa, I could not help myself but to feel injustice that you did not include Pangasinan as among the languages included in your anthology. Although I don't speak the languages in the south, I know that Cebuano is different from Waray, Waray from Hiligaynon etc. It is clear from the bio-note your editors wrote about me that I am from Pangasinan and I wrote Pangasinan. Or does this mean that you perceived that the language I wrote is Iloko just like what Villa wrote "I read all the works in their original languages except those in Iluko and Inabaknon, which I read in translation"? I don't know how can you remedy this. Your book claim to represent "marginalized literatures" but in the process you misrepresented and even silenced another "marginalized literature".

Sincerely
Erwin S. Fernandez
4 Mitura St. San Vicente West,
Urdaneta City, Pangasinan
2428 Philippines

Mobile: 639166608628
Skype: erwin.s.fernandez

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