{"id":27,"date":"2008-06-23T13:26:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T18:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=27"},"modified":"2025-07-27T16:23:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T21:23:04","slug":"bettie-sharpes-ember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/bettie-sharpes-ember\/","title":{"rendered":"Bettie Sharpe&#8217;s &#8220;Ember&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11007\" title=\"emberbookcover\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/20080623_embercover-300x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\">In my opinion, this is not so much a twisted fairy tale as an example of how to write. I won\u2019t get into all the gush-deconstruction with various adjectives and superlatives because it\u2019s been done ad nauseam (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20151130054347\/https:\/\/litsoup.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/erotica-i-like.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">by an agent, even!<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111215181610\/http:\/\/www.bettiesharpe.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/22\/if-you-havent-heard-from-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bettie<\/a>, if you see, this, please email me your Paypal account and I\u2019ll PAY you for the privilege of having read it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Go. Now. <strike>Download <em>Ember<\/em>, read <em>Ember<\/em>, love <em>Ember<\/em><\/strike> [2025-07-24: No longer available for purchase or download anywhere. I found it on Barnes &#038; Noble and I bought it, but B&#038;N canceled my transaction immediately]. Then go to Samhain Publishing and reward Ms. Sharpe by buying her novella, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100102234237\/http:\/\/samhainpublishing.com\/authors\/bettie-sharpe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Like a Thief in the Night<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Side note: If you like this as much as I did, I recommend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Beauty-Novel-Spectra-Special-Editions-ebook\/dp\/B00317G7JM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sheri S. Tepper\u2019s <em>Beauty<\/em><\/a>. Philosophically, Ms. Tepper and I couldn\u2019t be farther apart, yet I love her work. In fact, I love it so much that I mention her anti-violence, anti-alpha male treatise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Womens-Country-Sheri-Tepper-1993-02-01\/dp\/B01N3UN7VT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Gate to Women\u2019s Country<\/em><\/a> in my certainly-not-anti-violent and pro-alpha male and alpha female doorstopper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my opinion, this is not so much a twisted fairy tale as an example of how to write. I won\u2019t get into all the gush-deconstruction with various adjectives and superlatives because it\u2019s been done ad nauseam (by an agent, even!) Bettie, if you see, this, please email me your Paypal account and I\u2019ll PAY [&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":[535,521,532,424],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-book-reviews","category-reading","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"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=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14939,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/14939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}