{"id":166,"date":"2008-11-04T14:33:34","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T19:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=166"},"modified":"2025-08-01T11:38:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:38:21","slug":"im-a-series-whore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/im-a-series-whore\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m a series whore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, let me clarify: I\u2019m not so crazy about the ones where you have to read them in order, especially if they\u2019re not marked on the cover as being part of a series<\/a> (Covenant, are you listening to me?) and which book it is. I like the ones you can read out of order. Yeah, you might get spoilers for the ones that came before it, if they happen in chronological order.<\/p>\n

But what I really really really really super-duper like are books that are interconnected by characters, say, like a family series. Like, say, ahem, the Dunham family. With these people, I go back in time, forward in time, some of them aren\u2019t even related by blood but by friendship. It doesn\u2019t resemble a straight line so much as a wagon wheel, with a hub (The Proviso<\/em><\/a>) and spokes, each spoke being a separate, standalone story but with characters you can keep up with in other books.<\/p>\n

My current project is Stay<\/em>, set in both Mansfield, Missouri<\/a> and my beloved \u201cChouteau\u201d County. It\u2019s the romance between two minor characters in The Proviso<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As you can see from the word-count meter at the right, I\u2019ve written a good portion of it. That doesn\u2019t mean anything. It\u2019ll be rewritten several times before it gets published some time in (I\u2019m hoping) the winter of 2009\/2010. As you can also see, it\u2019s a little more manageable (for me and<\/em> you) at 100,000 words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, let me clarify: I\u2019m not so crazy about the ones where you have to read them in order, especially if they\u2019re not marked on the cover as being part of a series (Covenant, are you listening to me?) and which book it is. I like the ones you can read out of order. Yeah, […]<\/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":[148,318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kansas-city","category-tales-of-dunham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"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=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15092,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/15092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}