#fab fables

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Where's Leah?

Leah has emerged from a pile of e-manuscripts on her electronic desktop (is this possible? ed.) to scope out the challenge gloves thrown down before her.

'It's important for writers to get the best out of Caladria that they understand not only how the world works, but also the production requirements needed to get a story finished on time and to brief.'

Leah sees the need for new authors who want to try their hand at creating history on Caladria through their tales. 'The volume requirements we have on our year planner means we'll need plenty of pens, so please spread the word to your friends.'

'OK, and, following on from there, we need to generate a stream of new and exciting stories. Remember that Caladrian stories are not just fantasy, but many different genres - romance, mystery, thriller, even detective - which happen in a fantasy setting.'

Leah's happy to look at story ideas, but they have to bubble up from a character or place (region or settlement) that exists within the Compendium. 'That's part of the training that I'm putting into place for the editing team. Think 'Caladria' first.'

Lastly, Leah admits that one of her biggest challenges is to prevent herself from getting hot and sweaty (I think you mean 'glowing', ed.) about not only the next issue of Fab Fables but the first steps into franchise development.

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Upcoming challenges for Cal

Cal tells us about the Development Challenges he sees on the Heads Up Display.

'Number 1, I'm on the way to converting the publishing system so that we can produce single-story issues. At the moment it's built to produce Fab Fables which is a collection of different stories. With the single story capability, we can publish in novella and even novel formats.

'Numero Due we'll improve the store system to allow us to offer products for free (for example, Guide Books). This is an important piece in helping potential fans (or even collaborators) to try before they buy. The first one is in preparation and its first issue is called "Experience Caladria!".'

'Then, thirdly, the team is finishing a second issue of the Guide Book. This one is called "How To Build A World Together".

'We'll add some missing Compendium templates so that team members and fans can search for Species, Continental Areas and so on. While also introducing some new dataTypes into the mix including Political States, Technologies, Winds, Ocean Currents & Tectonic Plates.

We're also going to tweak the search results page for team members so that we prioritise worldData results before things such as Discussions or Projects.'

[caladria-official]

Oyez! Oyez! OSR!

It's emerging as a salient feature

We've talked about OSR (On-Site Reading) before but we wanted to give it a bit of air time here. Because we would like you to do the same. What do we mean? Well, if somebody asks you 'What's different about Caladria?' OSR is a good answer to give. But, what is it really? It's a multi-dimensional way to experience Caladria. A book can only give you a single dimension. Nothing wrong with eBooks, we hope that people will download future issues of Fab Fables to read on their hardware, but OSR can take you further. Literally further, because, as you may have discovered, as you read the tales, the system presents you with an opportunity to look at relevant places on the WorldMap AND relevant entries in the Compendium. Just by clicking. If you haven't tried it yet, go to My Library, open up your copy of Fab Fables #1 and click on the 'Read Book' button. If you've not got a copy yet why not buy one and support your colleagues.

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The very first Indie Fiction Syndicate on the web. Come join us to stake your place in the world of Caladria.

I DID A THING! I wrote a story for a magazine that's available for download. Every story is set at a different place and point in time from the same world and written by different writers. If you like fantasy (especially things like LOTR or Narnia where there is a big eclectic world) then give it a try :)

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Where Your Money Goes! If you purchase a copy of Fab Fables Issue #1 later this month, you can rest assured that the money you're parting with doesn't just disappear into an anonymous pot.

The fantastic TeriYeri engine, automatically calculates which team members were involved in the production of an issue, and how much work they put in, and distributes revenue based on that algorithm. 

You can see from the screenshot that our first issue is quite a small team, mainly with 5 writers, a publisher and one extremely over-worked editor!

Is there space for more people? Definitely. Based on an issue which includes 5 stories, there is the potential for 17 different people to be earning some kind of revenue from a sale.

When you join the team at Caladria, you don't write for us, you write amongst us. :)