{"id":119,"date":"2008-09-04T10:14:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T15:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=119"},"modified":"2025-07-25T20:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T01:19:14","slug":"a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"A week!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot believe a week has gone by and I haven\u2019t posted.  Tax Deduction #1 just went into kindergarten and I find myself being forced by the school district to keep a schedule.  (Blech.)  Being a WAHM is its own precious kind of insanity and my chaos is getting beaten into submission. Thank heavens I still have Tax Deduction #2 to keep my days a little off balance. I just don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going to do when he goes to school, too, and we\u2019re all perfectly regulated and scheduled by default.<\/p>\n<p>FYI, I thought y\u2019all might like to know what editing a book (for me) looks like:<\/p>\n<div class=\"center\">ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/div>\n<p>That stack of papers is one manuscript.  Take about 100 pages off the top and that\u2019s about how much of a dent I\u2019ve made, which isn\u2019t, admittedly, that much. Once I got through crying over all the bloodletting, though, I\u2019ve started to have a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll admit that when I\u2019m under the gun like this (or otherwise preoccupied with Fun Stuff*), my blog reading goes way down (oh noes! missing <em>drahmah<\/em>!) and obviously, so does my posting.  Hopefully I\u2019ll be back on track in a couple of weeks and with any luck, I\u2019ll get to start really cranking out the pages for book #2 in the Dunham series.<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">*&#160;&#160;So in the last week, Fun Stuff has consisted of reading.  A lot. I finished a couple of erotic historical romance author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pamrosenthal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pam Rosenthal<\/a>\u2019s books, which I enjoyed for their voice and odd cadences, but didn\u2019t find terribly erotic. Both books were remarkable for how they took people from different classes and had them work to reconcile their thought processes and worldviews.  To me, the sex wasn\u2019t terribly descriptive anyway, so I don\u2019t know why they\u2019re billed as erotic. They\u2019re fairly cerebral books.  I liked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Slightest-Provocation-Signet-Eclipse-ebook\/dp\/B003L784O8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Slightest Provocation<\/em><\/a> better than I liked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Booksellers-Daughter-Pam-Rosenthal\/dp\/0758204450\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Bookseller\u2019s Daughter<\/em><\/a>.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Almost-Gentleman-Brava-Historical-Romance-ebook\/dp\/B00VEG4SDE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Almost a Gentleman<\/em><\/a> was <a href=\"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/getting-the-job-done-take-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the one I couldn\u2019t finish<\/a> because I figured out the whodunnit a quarter of the way in and, again, the sex wasn\u2019t enough to sustain the story if you already had it figured out.<\/div>\n<div class=\"indent\">I\u2019m reading a (published) book by my crit partner.  I\u2019m reading a book by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ranunes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rachel Ann Nunes<\/a> (because really, how can I pound LDS lit into the ground if I don\u2019t read it?), but I have to admit it\u2019s just not holding my attention. I made an order to <a href=\"http:\/\/deseretbook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deseret Book<\/a> because I figured out that two of the books I bought in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beautifulnauvoo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nauvoo<\/a> 2 weeks ago (yeah, I\u2019ll post about that) are sequels (WHY don\u2019t they put this on the cover?).<\/div>\n<p>I was, uh, <em>gifted<\/em> with boxes and boxes of old LDS books, some of which are old-timey LDS romances and some others of which I think might be valuable, so I\u2019m looking into that.<\/p>\n<p>Hey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellerbookworks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sam Weller\u2019s<\/a>.  Call me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot believe a week has gone by and I haven\u2019t posted. Tax Deduction #1 just went into kindergarten and I find myself being forced by the school district to keep a schedule. (Blech.) Being a WAHM is its own precious kind of insanity and my chaos is getting beaten into submission. Thank heavens I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[535,543,540],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-molit","category-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15109,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/15109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}