This is what\u2019s apparently called \u201cgood\u201d gossip. I shall take the liberty of bragging.<\/p>\n
Eric Selinger, a professor at DePaul University, who also contributes to some romance blogs, including Teach Me Tonight<\/a>, has invited her to be a panelist on a conference next spring at Princeton University<\/a> [whole page not available; scroll down to \u201cExclusive: Princeton U. 2 Host Conference on Romance Fiction in 2009!,\u201d along with Pamela Regis, author of A Natural History of the Romance Novel<\/em>, Stephanie Coontz, author of Marriage, a History<\/em>, and Joey Hill. Selinger is also teaching Phyllida<\/em> in two graduate seminars, this summer and in the fall.<\/p>\n Also, Ms. Regis will be referencing her in a chapter she\u2019s writing on Women\u2019s Genre Fiction for The Cambridge History of the American Novel.<\/p>\n The woman\u2019s a groundbreaking juggernaut, I tell you. I\u2019m like Smart Bitches with Ferrets<\/a>.<\/p>\n Re: THE PROVISO<\/em>\u2019S FOLLOWUPS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n I think I mentioned before that this is the first of a series. Well, it\u2019s not. It\u2019s more like a family-and-friends saga.<\/p>\n Right now I\u2019m working on book #2, which is titled Stay<\/em>. It\u2019s the story of Knox\u2019s wards, Vanessa and Eric. You won\u2019t get too far into The Proviso<\/em> without reading a little about Vanessa, and Eric is mentioned not long thereafter, though Eric has more face time in The Proviso<\/em>.<\/p>\n I\u2019m also deep into book #3, Magdalene<\/em>, which is the story of Mitch, who has no face time in The Proviso<\/em>, but is somewhat significant to one of the characters and is mentioned a lot. He\u2019s a widowed Mormon bishop busy tending his ward and running a business and keeping his 17-year-old son on track, and then he meets Cassandra, whose prior<\/em> profession is, well, the world\u2019s oldest. Teh sparks. Let me show u dem.<\/p>\n Re: \u201cSELF-PUBLISHING\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n I am henceforth and forthwith going to refer to it as \u201cindependent publishing.\u201d I set up my own publishing company. I bought my own ISBNs. I got my Library of Congress Cataloging Number. I got my cataloging info to put on my copyright page (oh, Librarians, I did this for you, my loves). I paid an editor! to edit my book. And hey, all you Mr. PageMaker Publishing Persons out there, I\u2019m using Word to typeset. Bite me (but only in the nicest way!). And no, I will not be using Garamond or Palatino, thankyouverymuch.<\/p>\n April Hamilton<\/a> does a very nice job as ambassador for independent publishers and she has a point when she says that independent artists and musicians and filmmakers don\u2019t seem to feel the same industry shame at \u201cself\u201ding anything. In fact, \u201cindie\u201d as applied to the aforementioned is a tag of distinction and diversity.<\/p>\n Re: EBOOKS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Y\u2019all know this is my pet theme. I would feed it if it had fur. There\u2019s just way too much information going on in eBookWorld right now to disseminate by myself or what I think is important about it. But a few things have caught my eye recently:<\/p>\n Re: LDS FICTION. AGAIN. GO AWAY.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n It won\u2019t die. The term \u201cLDS fiction\u201d has been defined by the consumer. It is its own genre. Live with it. You\u2019ve been pwn3d.<\/p>\n Either write\/publish in it and slap the label on it or write\/publish out of it and get it into the mainstream. As I said in my penultimate post on the LDS Publisher thread<\/a>, mainstream genre\/literary readers are going to be a lot more forgiving of characters being LDS and\/or being informed by an LDS worldview (and oh, hey! you get the culture out there into the social consciousness!) than LDS readers are going to be of LDS characters who don\u2019t conform to a rigid morality \u2026<\/p>\n
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\nIn case you don\u2019t know, which you probably don\u2019t and that\u2019s okay because this is the only time in my life I\u2019ve been an early adopter of anything, ebooks come in all sorts of formats. This is no VHS\/beta situation. This is a VHS\/beta\/and 16 other ways of buying and viewing movies with attached machines that may be obsolete tomorrow situation.
\nThe .epub format is hoped to be the .mp3 of electronic books; that is, it\u2019s open source and elegant, so it has the greatest flexibility of all the other formats to explode eBookWorld. The hope is that there will come along a slew of ebook reading devices whose native format is .epub and\/or that the device can decode the .epub format and turn it into its native language\u2014across the board. I don\u2019t have an iPod; I have a Rio Karma. But it still reads .mp3 files.<\/div>\n![\"Steve](\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/20080801_jobs.jpg\")
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