[a website for the Editor and Narrator of the Circo del Herrero series]
You can learn all about the latest novel in the CIRCO DEL HERRERO SERIES (The Blacksmith’s Circus Series, for you who don’t know Spanglish) here.
We asked the Internet why J.K. Rowling didn’t self-publish her Robert Galbraith novel if she really wanted her pen name to stay a secret.
Gabbler wrote an essay over post-apocalyptic stories.
We shared some thoughts on Lev Grossman’s The Magicians series and Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series.
Gabbler recommended a bunch of crap. Like Halloween Songs and this comedian.
We gave you a look at B.L.A.’s original manuscript for THE AUTOMATION preface.
Here is a reminder of some of our social media accounts.
Read the rest here.
+1 for Japan for treating the Other equally.
“A comparison to Tolkien is inevitable for any fantasy writer—as is a comparison to C. S. Lewis, J. K. Rowling, and just about every other fantasist who ever was (T. H. White, Le Guin, Feist, Pratchett, Pullman, Alan Moore, and so on, as well as some notable non-fantasists, like the great Evelyn Waugh). But with Grossman, the comparison is even more unavoidable than usual. If the references to a school for magic and a mystical land didn’t already tip you off, Grossman’s trilogy plays as an epic riff on the entire genre. And just in case you still don’t get it, he drops allusions to these works throughout, from specific (Rowling’s “muggles,” for instance) to structural (boy-wizard trope, Lewis’s Narnia). The goal, it seems, is to be so derivative, so plagiaristic in its parts, that their sum somehow circles back in an Ouroboros of meta-magic and achieves a kind of renewed originality. The entirety of protagonist Quentin Coldwater’s journey is supposed to transcend the familiarity of its particulars. ”
