12 Responses to “The Proviso reviews start coming in…”

1. Zoe Winters
   November 8th, 2008 at 9:39 am
   

   I’m so excited to get my hands on this!

   This sounds exactly like my cuppa. I’m not Mormon, but all the other stuff, plus i love books that are philosophically deep.

   
   
2. Th.
   November 10th, 2008 at 1:56 am
   

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   Just imagine: in six months you’ll be able to post one from me!

   
   
3. MoJo
   November 10th, 2008 at 9:07 am
   

   Thanks, Zoe and Th., but nobody’s going to be reading anything on paper if the shipper doesn’t get on the ball. Harrumph.

   
   
4. Th.
   November 10th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
   

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   How long till your outraged fans are allowed to send inflammatory emails?

   
   
5. MoJo
   November 10th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
   

   Oh! They came in this morning and we’ll be shipping out tomorrow.

   Woo hoooooooooo!!!!!

   
   
6. Zoe Winters
   November 11th, 2008 at 9:23 am
   

   YAY!

   
   
7. Dude
   November 16th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
   

   and ya’ll can post reviews on amazon.com even if you didn’t buy it there. Here, I’ll help. use this link http://www.amazon.com/Proviso-Moriah-Jovan/dp/0981769616/ref=ed_oe_p

   
   
8. haggis
   November 17th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
   

   LMAO@ the Dude (I’m afraid I equate that with Lebowski–THE Dude, which makes for some weird conflicts in my head in this context. . .

   I’ve just received my copy and had to come here and cry about it. It’s so beautiful! I couldn’t be more proud if it were my own baby. Thank you for the vicarious thrills. (LOL–imagine when I actually read it!)

   And yes, I will review at Amazon, but have to advocate buying the sucker direct through the publisher’s site because it’s not only cheaper, but you get free shipping.

   Yes, I’m stereotypically frugal. Sue me.

   
   
9. Dude
   November 18th, 2008 at 8:57 am
   

   Of course, we would prefer everyone buy directly from us. The point is, to get reviews out there for all the world do see the masterpiece my hunnibunni wrote.

   
   
10. Th.
    November 20th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
    

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    Of course, the great fear of reading the book of someone one knows is that it will suck and then what will you say?

    I’m almost a hundred pages in and I have to tell you now (in case my reading slows down as it often does with even the best books) so far so good. I’m very impressed. God job, MoJo.

    
    
11. MoJo
    November 20th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
    

    Thanks, Theric.

    Yeah, that pesky “someone you know” thing. Yikes.

    
    
12. Th.
    November 20th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
    

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    I rarely ask people I know socially to read my work — for many reasons, but, most pragmatically, the fact is very close to 0% of them will actually read what I would give them. It’s a waste of time and becomes an elephant for any room we share.

    So these days I never ask people to read my work — even after it’s published (speaking of nonbooks here) I don’t mention it. If people specifically request something I will happily deliver, but even then, few will read it. And I think it’s generally because of one of these reasons:

    a) They’re afraid they won’t like it.

    b) They genuinely didn’t like it (probably because it’s not the sort of thing they read)

    c) They couldn’t really get around to reading it (because they never really get around to reading anything)

    Ergo, what’s the point?

    But with books, the equation changes. A lot.

    
    

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