Moriah Jovan

Category Archives: Books*authors*pubs

Pre-ordering autographed copies

I finished this project up long before I thought I would. All that's left is uploading the digital versions to the various sites and pulling the trigger on the print version at Amazon. So it got me thinking. For those of you who like print, how'd you Read more [...]

Lookie what I got!

A professional milestone

It may or may not be common knowledge that, under my real name, I run B10 Mediaworx, an author services / digital formatting company, which I've been doing for the past ... mmm ... four years. I think. Anyway, before that, I was an at-home medical transcriptionist Read more [...]

The making of Dunham

And so begins a post (or series of them) (you know how wishy-washy I am) on Dunham, the privateer-heroine and pirate-hero Revolutionary War swashbuckler, which, for those of you not following the serial, will be available for sale July 4, 2013. To Read more [...]

Veni, vidi, vici.

I had several ideas for this post's title: "I'm not one of you." "Repeating myself" "Tired of the sound of my own voice" "Being silent" "Serial starter" Anyway, all of them are pertinent to my point, but they all mean different things. I'll take Read more [...]

Of artists and assholes

Orson Scott Card doesn't make a hill of beans' worth of difference to me. I never read him until I was an adult (and haven't read Ender's Game), I was underwhelmed with the Alvin Maker series, and aside from his strong views on homosexuality, he has some Read more [...]

Magdalene and Publisher’s Weekly

For an author, a Publisher's Weekly starred review is one of the holy grails of reviews. It's one of those things that, for a writer, is right up there with The Call ("Hi, Mojo. I want to offer you a contract for your book."). I've had pretty close brushes Read more [...]

Dunham 07: Chapter Seven

NSFW EPUB • KINDLE • PDF   March, 1780 In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean From the periphery of her dreams, Celia felt the bed depress beneath her, and though it could not possibly have been Dindi, Celia cast the irregularity of it to Read more [...]

Dunham 06: Chapter Six

EPUB • KINDLE • PDF March, 1780In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean The morning sun shone bright on Celia’s face. Below her, on the main deck, activity was lazy and, for the most part, curtailed, the crew engaged in menial tasks that nevertheless Read more [...]

The Proviso is free at Amazon

The Proviso is FREE on Amazon Kindle today through Tuesday. In case you're wondering... That chick who beheaded her captain, and the dude who came THISCLOSE to getting executed for high treason are the four-greats grandparents of the family in The Read more [...]

Creepy collective consciousness is creepy

It appears I'm not the only writer with her knickers in a twist over The Book That Shall Not Be Named, and not only that, but it appears the writerly collective conscious had gotten its knockers knickers in a twist somewhere between Sunday night and Monday Read more [...]

Dunham: the serial

I lied. I'm not going to post the serial chapters here because I made a brand new site dedicated to the purpose. You can sign up for the newsletter, put it in your feed, or bookmark it. I will post here every week that a new one is up, though. That way, Read more [...]

“A book a year is slacking.”

This sentiment got some traction in writerland a couple of weeks ago, but since the beginning of this digital publishing surge, it's been a (sometimes unspoken) maxim. No, actually, it's been around a long time. Way back in the day when I was a member Read more [...]

Monsters! Mormons! Not necessarily synonymous!

My editor and partner, Theric Jepson, who runs Peculiar Pages alongside my running of B10 Mediaworx, made some sort of joke on Twitter (don't remember the joke), and Wm Morris of A Motley Vision (a MoLit blog) had an idea. And the idea was to skewer the Read more [...]

Journal entry: February 3, 2007

I used to be a writer.  I wrote lots of stuff.  It never got published and I gave up.  I just...stopped...one day.  Sometimes I read what I wrote and I get a charge from it, and I catch myself wondering how the author would have finished it if she Read more [...]