Adel Gabot

Adel Gabot is a forty-something freelance writer/editor based in the Philippines. He contributes to the Philippine Daily inquirer and other publications, and was Copy Chief for ABS-CBN Publishing. He was Editor-in-Chief of Manual, Images, Pinoy Rider Extreme and M/PH, and guest EIC'ed for the Philippine Editions of Golf Digest, PC Magazine and Maxim. Adel also teaches writing, and used to teach a post-graduate course on Magazine Writing & Publishing at the De La Salle-College of St. Benilde’s School of Professional & Continuing Education. In creative writing, Adel’s fiction has won him accolades, including a Carlos Palanca Award for Literature for Short Fiction in 2000. Adel writes fiction when he can. He loves Apple stuff, like Macs, iPods, iPhones and iPads, and he also loves his Kindle. He likes to read and watch movies, specially sci-fi, old Sean Connery 007 films and the occasional horror potboiler. He admires people named Steve, or variants thereof, like Steve Jobs, Steven Spielberg and Stephen King. Adel also loves Ma Mon Luk mami and siopao, green tea ice cream, Aeropressed coffee and a good Merlot.