{"id":5076,"date":"2011-11-02T16:38:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T21:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=4002"},"modified":"2025-08-24T11:42:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T16:42:35","slug":"monsters-mormons-not-necessarily-synonymous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/monsters-mormons-not-necessarily-synonymous\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsters! Mormons! Not necessarily synonymous!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-16106\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/20111102_monsters.jpg\" alt=\"The cover of MONSTERS &amp; MORMONS, in oil painting impressionist style, with two women in skirts\/blouses, with knives, fighting off purple tentacles.\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\">My editor and partner, <a href=\"http:\/\/thmazing.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Theric Jepson<\/a>, who runs <a href=\"http:\/\/b10mediaworx.com\/peculiarpages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Peculiar Pages<\/a> alongside my running of <a href=\"https:\/\/b10mediaworx.com\/b10mwx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">B10 Mediaworx<\/a>, made some sort of joke on Twitter (don\u2019t remember the joke), and <a href=\"http:\/\/williamhenrymorris.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wm Morris<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motleyvision.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Motley Vision<\/a> (a MoLit blog) had an idea. And the idea was to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motleyvision.org\/2010\/preannouncement-monsters-mormons-anthology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">skewer the 19th-century literary tradition of using Mormons as stock villains in pulp fiction<\/a> by turning the Mormons into the protagonists instead of the antagonists.<\/p>\n<p>Plans were being made. I felt no compunction to submit a story to this anthology of pulp fiction because a) I don\u2019t read pulp fiction; I read trashy romance novels aka porn for women and so b) I didn\u2019t feel qualified to write anything for it. But then Wm posted an update on AMV saying, \u201cI\u2019d like to see X, Y, Z, and A, B, and C.\u201d Well, I thought. I could do Y, Z, and B. So I did.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When I got it done and Wm liked it (Theric was not my editor this time), I had second thoughts. Considering I\u2019m kind of, you know, responsible for its publication, I figured there would be seen some sort of \u201cin,\u201d or conflict of interest. Theric and I discussed it and decided I\u2019d withdraw it, but Wm thought my withdrawing it was a bad idea. So, okay. Onward.<\/p>\n<p>What has resulted is <a href=\"https:\/\/b10mediaworx.com\/peculiarpages\/books\/monsters-mormons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the most wonderful collection of tales of the supernatural and bizarre<\/a>. Supernaturally bizarre. Or bizarrely supernatural. Whatever. Including! Get this! TWO graphic novels!<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/allowme\/\"><strong>So here\u2019s a little taste of my story, of a Mormon self-styled \u201cnun\u201d packing nuclear weapons powered by cold fusion to zap demons left and right.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you like science fiction, fantasy, paranormal, zombies, werewolves, ghosts, goblins, and things that go bump in the night, go get the whole collection! It\u2019s available in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Monsters-Mormons-ebook\/dp\/B0061SWL2A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kindle store<\/a>, but print is forthcoming in the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My editor and partner, Theric Jepson, who runs Peculiar Pages alongside my running of B10 Mediaworx, made some sort of joke on Twitter (don\u2019t remember the joke), and Wm Morris of A Motley Vision (a MoLit blog) had an idea. And the idea was to skewer the 19th-century literary tradition of using Mormons as stock [&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":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peculiar-pages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076"}],"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=5076"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18531,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076\/revisions\/18531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}