{"id":86,"date":"2008-08-10T21:58:57","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T02:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=86"},"modified":"2025-07-31T22:04:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T03:04:31","slug":"blond-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/blond-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Blond heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"normal\"><p>Upfront aside:  On Amazon, <em>Breaking Dawn<\/em> is getting trashed for typos and grammatical errors and spelling errors, like \u2026  \u201cblond\u201d versus \u201cblonde.\u201d  I didn\u2019t bother to ask if the different usage was gender-specific.  So for those who might misunderstand my usage of both \u201cblond\u201d and \u201cblonde\u201d in my book, let me disclaim that \u201cblond\u201d (no \u201ce\u201d) is to describe a male and \u201cblonde\u201d (with \u201ce\u201d) is to describe a female (you can apply that to \u201cbrunet\u201d and \u201cbrunette\u201d as well).  Just your regular ordinary Latin declension.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That out of the way, I want to know how many people really don\u2019t like blond heroes.  I don\u2019t remember where I ran across some \u201cfact\u201d with \u201cdata\u201d that proclaimed that blond heroes don\u2019t sell well.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m reading a book now with a blond villain and crimony, now that that I have that swirling around in my brain,  I recall a good majority of the books I\u2019ve read that have a slimy villain, they\u2019re all blond.  Not fair!<\/p>\n<p>I love \u2019em.  This is because of Wulfgar in <em>The Wolf and the Dove<\/em>.  And other particular contributors to my life experience.<\/p>\n<p>Two questions:<\/p>\n<p>1. Do you have any particular dislike of blond heroes?<\/p>\n<p>2. Is there evidence that blond heroes don\u2019t sell as well as dark ones?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upfront aside: On Amazon, Breaking Dawn is getting trashed for typos and grammatical errors and spelling errors, like \u2026 \u201cblond\u201d versus \u201cblonde.\u201d I didn\u2019t bother to ask if the different usage was gender-specific. So for those who might misunderstand my usage of both \u201cblond\u201d and \u201cblonde\u201d in my book, let me disclaim that \u201cblond\u201d (no [&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":[532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"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=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17113,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/17113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}