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[BLA and GB GABBLER are two halves of the pen name behind the CIRCO DEL HERRERO series. Vol. 2, THE PRE-PROGRAMMING out now!]

GABBLER RECOMMENDS: PG on The Shatzkin Files’ “No, the Big Five are not a cartel and it really ignores reality to label them as one.”

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Passive Guy on Shatzkin’s article:

“Everybody who believes that 80% of the authors publishing with Big Publishing are not expected to earn out their advances, please raise your hands.

And the price-fixing that the Price-fix Six engaged in with Amazon is the very definition of cartel behavior.”

Read the post on The Passive Voice.

[“BLA and GB Gabbler” (really just a pen name – singular) are the Editor and Narrator behind THE AUTOMATION, vol. 1 of the Circo del Herrero series. They are on facebook, twitter, tumblr, goodreads, and Vulcan’s shit list.]

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Today’s Featured Authors: B.L.A. and G.B. Gabbler

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Today’s Featured Authors: B.L.A. and G.B. Gabbler.

An excerpt from THE AUTOMATION can be found on Susan Leigh Noble’s Blog today. Click the link to read!

The Acrobat’s Family, The Injured Child — Gustave Dore

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Biblioklept's avatarBiblioklept

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“Topsy Curvy” Automaton by Thomas Kuntz

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[“BLA and GB Gabbler” (really just a pen name – singular) are the Editor and Narrator behind THE AUTOMATION, vol. 1 of the Circo del Herrero series. They are on facebook, twitter, tumblr, goodreads, and Vulcan’s shit list.]

all yellow B&N | Amazon | Etc.

“The first 100 pages were build up” or “The Fantasy Writer’s Dilemma”

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Some wise words from V.E. Schwab.

veschwab's avatarVictoria (V.E.) Schwab

So I’m sitting here, working on my 10th book—how did that happen?—and thinking about pacing. As someone who writes fantasy, I’m always faced with a dilemma, a push-pull problem: the need to introduce the world and its rules, without dragging down the plot. I like to think I do this—I certainly do my best—but the simple fact is that those first 100 pages can’t JUST be plot, not in fantasy.

They have to lay foundations.

They have to set up the rest of the book, so that it all makes sense and pays off and the clues add up and the twists work and the punches land and you’re left with a feeling of YES. Because here’s what I think: it’s worth it. Those opening pages, which lay that foundation—I’m not talking about info-dumping, that is nightmarish and just bad writing—and establish your world, they are worth it. They…

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