GABBLER RECOMMENDS: the film “Hogfather” for your Holiday viewing

May it become a tradition in your household as it is in ours.

Want more atypical Christmas-y stories? Check out this Litreactor list by Christopher Shultz.

Aphrodite’s gears are a little rusty…

Work them gears, gurl.
Work them gears, gurl.

There is a Goodreads giveaway going on right now for the print edition of THE AUTOMATION – Vol. 1 of The Blacksmith’s Circus series.

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

On authors stalking and reviewers being afraid to speak #HaleNo

 

Japanese science fiction award opens entries to aliens and computers:

 “It’s sort of a joke, but for real,” she said. “I wanted the award/competition itself to be science fiction. After all, if it can’t expand the imagination of the general public, what’s the point of having a sci-fi competition?”

Read the rest here.

+1 for Japan for treating the Other equally.

 

 

How book packaging hurts readers:

You can read more about this issue here:

http://www.snugglyoranges.com/2014/01/full-fathom-five-boycott-books/

http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/69474/index2.html

http://bibliodaze.com/2014/04/say-no-to-james-frey-why-im-boycotting-full-fathom-five/

http://www.stackedbooks.org/2013/10/on-book-packagers-and-literary.html

https://circodelherreroseries.com/2014/07/19/why-literature-is-no-longer-art/