{"id":168,"date":"2008-11-13T10:39:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T15:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=168"},"modified":"2025-07-31T10:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:08:07","slug":"misckellaneous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/misckellaneous\/","title":{"rendered":"Misckellaneous"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cartoonI\u2019ve had a lot on my mind lately that I haven\u2019t been able to untangle, much less unpack on an issue-by-issue basis. What are they?<\/p>\n

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  1. The election<\/li>\n
  2. Prop 8 in California<\/li>\n
  3. “Black October” in publishing<\/li>\n
  4. Independent publishing<\/li>\n
  5. Agents and editors (the “Gatekeepers”)<\/li>\n
  6. Mormon writers\/Mormon literature<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    But a couple<\/a> of posts<\/a> on Nathan Bransford\u2019s blog yesterday sorted at least one issue out for me, which is my firm belief that whether or not independent publishing becomes as accepted independent filmmaking and independent music making, it was the right choice for me. And I\u2019m going to come back to that Espresso Book Machine thing because it\u2019s tres<\/em> important.<\/p>\n

    Which leads me to a post Mike Cane made recently<\/a> about self-pubbing and an author\u2019s inability to do it all, yet tries because he wants to save money. He\u2019s right overall, but I learned long ago that creative types in one discipline are drawn to other disciplines and have the ability to do those well, too. What they are, though \u2026 that I can\u2019t say. So that\u2019s going to be my jumping off point for today\u2019s Jack Handey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I\u2019ve had a lot on my mind lately that I haven\u2019t been able to untangle, much less unpack on an issue-by-issue basis. What are they? The election Prop 8 in California “Black October” in publishing Independent publishing Agents and editors (the “Gatekeepers”) Mormon writers\/Mormon literature But a couple of posts on Nathan Bransford\u2019s blog yesterday […]<\/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":[543,108,537,525,530,559],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-molit","category-politics","category-print-on-demand","category-publishing","category-self-publishing","category-traditional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"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=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16819,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/16819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}