http://moriahjovan.com/mojo Religion. Money. Politics. Sex. Not necessarily in that order. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:05:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en THIS IS A STICKY POST. SCROLL DOWN FOR MY LATEST LAME ATTEMPT AT BEING INTERESTING. Of the many things on our to-do list with regard to getting The Proviso out there was to offer a good-sized excerpt as a free download. Well, we finally got around to it today (and ... http://moriahjovan.com/mojo/the-proviso-excerpt-download I want to make something very clear. What I'm doing is giving you the tools to create e-books from scratch with very little money and not a lot of automation. There's a reason for this: When you learn it this way, you learn principles you can carry ... http://moriahjovan.com/mojo/creating-ebooks-gather-your-materials The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom & Their Lover: An Erotic Novel by Victoria Janssen Published by Spice Please note the title and study the cover a bit. Does that say "romance novel" to you? Me, neither. And yet, despite the absence of the word "Harlequin" anywhere on the cover, on the ... http://moriahjovan.com/mojo/book-review-the-duchess-et-al I'm a permablogger over at Publishing Renaissance (for those of you who don't know). I'm alternating Thursdays, starting January 1 (yeah, I know, it was 2 days ago). And it's so cool to be kicking off Publishing Renaissance's year. Lately, I've been around some blogs that are extraordinarily kinda ... http://moriahjovan.com/mojo/faith-and-hope-and-elbow-grease My stats say that consistently the most viewed spot on this site is the Kansas City picture gallery. I don't know why, but I'm glad because you know what? We have some nice stuff here. It's the cozy kind of romantic where you snuggle up with your honey ... http://moriahjovan.com/mojo/kansas-city-randomidity-1 Okay, so I'm a schmuck who makes New Year's resolutions. Kinda sorta. Maybe. It depends. This is how it goes. On New Year's Day, I take down the Christmas tree, throw a sheet over it and stick it in the coat closet. In my world (and it took ... http://moriahjovan.com/mojo/happy-new-year-pass-the-bleach I AM AGAINST DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT (DRM). ANY VENDOR I RECOMMEND WILL SHARE THIS STANCE AND ANY INSTRUCTIONS I GIVE WILL IGNORE ANY POSSIBILITY FOR ENCRYPTION. IF YOU WANT TO LOCK UP YOUR WORK, FIGURE IT OUT YOURSELF. In my last episode, I instructed you to go learn (X)HTML/CSS. I ... http://moriahjovan.com/mojo/creating-ebooks-the-easy-way There's been a lot of discussion lately about the definition of a "book," or more specifically, the proper formatting of an e-book, and the definition of a "page" and its importance in the New eWorld Order. I'm here to tell you: Unless it's on paper or in PDF, they ain't ... http://moriahjovan.com/mojo/a-rose-by-any-other-name Waiting for Spring by RJ Keller It's been a long time since I threw common sense to the wind and stayed up to finish a book knowing how much I had to do the next day, but not resenting it the next day because it was totally worth it. This book has no ... http://moriahjovan.com/mojo/book-review-waiting-for-spring I have a boatload of work to do on the damned day job (filthy lucre!!!) and I have 23 people coming for Christmas Eve (which wouldn't actually mean much unless you saw my house) and Tax Deduction #1 is home on Christmas break (yay) and I want to spend some ... http://moriahjovan.com/mojo/officially-on-holiday