Sep

26

Halloween 2008

September 26, 2008 | 2 Comments

The Proviso release date: October 31.
Just wrapped up final edits, moving on to typesetting, then final proof.
Yeah. I’m skeert.
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Aug

28

The DDJ

August 28, 2008 | 3 Comments

Damned Day Job
Yes, I have one of those, albeit from home and entrepreneurial in nature. Actually, I have 2 money-making gigs. I also have 2 non money-making gigs: the Tax Deductions’ mother and this here book thing I hope will start paying for itself in a little while.
I have a DDJ for [...]

Aug

24

“Little Lion Face”

August 24, 2008 | 5 Comments

Thmazing posted this poem by May Swenson (1919-1989), Mormon poet, in April. I don’t usually “get” poetry, but I sure as heck got this and it is…beautiful. I’m going to have to invest some time in her work.

Little lion face
I stopped to pick
among the mass of thick
succulent blooms, the twice
streaked flanges of your [...]

Aug

21

Spiritual erotica

August 21, 2008 | 11 Comments

My book doesn’t have a genre. It’s too many things, but two things it is are spiritual and erotic. Okay, so in my mind, I think, “spiritual erotica.” I like it.
Anyhoo, I would like to direct your attention to today’s Thmazing’s Thmusings post by Eric Jepson on “The Erotic in LDS Lit, [...]

Aug

14

The 37-year-old virgin heroine

August 14, 2008 | 1 Comment

The Virgin Heroine has always been (and remains, IMO) a staple of genre romance. It’s getting not so much that way anymore, but as time goes on and society gets freer with its sexcapades, it’s harder for a writer to justify the Virgin Heroine, especially beyond, say, college age. On the other hand, [...]

Aug

8

The price of nice

August 8, 2008 | 8 Comments

I was over on Dear Author talking about Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer, which I have not read. One commenter expressed disapproval of Meyer on the basis that she’s a Mormon mother and shouldn’t be writing stuff like that anyway. I will go so far as to guess this commenter was not Mormon [...]

Jul

5

Reading against type

July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This morning I’m listening to Simply Red (flashbacks from freshman year at BYU) and the song “Money’s Too Tight to Mention” is a good song. If it weren’t, I wouldn’t have it in my library.
It also trashes things I believe in. Does it bother me? On some visceral level, yes, but that [...]

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