Frequently Asked Questions

The point of this blog is to share books that I enjoyed. When I go looking for a book to review I grab something I just read or I go looking. When I go looking it’s to either my physical bookshelves or to my virtual ones on my GoodReads profile.

When I get someone else to write a review for a book (usually a friend or relative I’ve wheedled into action) I ask them to pick one that they enjoyed.

It’s pretty simple, really. We read a book/comic, we like it, a review is written and posted.

Myself and any friend, relative, or acquaintance I can get to write one. Currently, all of the book reviews have been written by me.

I’m open to the idea. Depending on who are, I may already have a review of your work in my queue of already written posts waiting for their auto-publish dates to come. Email me about your work and we can discuss it.

moreVikings gives a rating between 0 and 5 for how well the reviewer (who is usually me) enjoyed the work. There are also ratings that indicate how much violence, sex, humor, and romance were in the book. These levels are given according to the reviewer’s inclination, whim, and recollection of the work.

A full list and explanation of all moreVikings ratings and levels are given on the Ratings and Levels Explained page.

Dig a small hole under an azalea bush and leave your angry message there. The local ladybug population will then start it on it’s journey to my narwhale overlords who will act on your complaint in the best interests of their consipiracy

Alternativly, you can use the Contact form to outpour your wrath about my review. I’ll ignore you’re angry message, of course. And I’ll probably tell people you’re a jerk.

As a further alternative, you can use the Contact form to send me a polite message saying you think I was unfair to your work and why. To which I will respond with like politeness.

You’re call.

The second purpose of moreVikings is the JANMV project. You can learn all about it here.

The Jane Austin Needs More Vikings project started out in 2006 as a writing project, but didn’t get very far. In 2010 I recreated the project as a very surreal, two panel cartoon series. You can learn all about JANMV here.

I almost have enough cartoons done to start posting. So, as soon as I get the ones for the beginning of Pride and Prejudice finished, and I get a satisfactory webcomic module setup, I’ll start posting. I have no set date or deadline for when that will happen, though. Sorry.

I’m starting with Pride and Prejudice. It’s the only one I’ve read and I actually hadn’t ever read it until I started this project.

Via email, using the Contact form.

The name ‘moreVikings’ is the result of a silly diner conversation I had with friends before the 2006 Comic-Con. My friends had just gotten into town for The Con so we went to diner at Dino’s Gyros. While we ate, we got talking about how you can mix Jane Austen with anything (this was years before Pride and Prejudice and Zombies came out). We got laughing and someone mentioned vikings, and we got silly suggesting what would happen if vikings were in a Jane Austin book. It became one of those wouldn’t-it-make-a-great-website-haha conversations. I’m a web developer so I pointed out that domain names aren’t that expensive, half seriously. By the time we walked back to my place I’d gone to fully serious. But I wasn’t quite sure who to execute my Jane Austin Needs More Vikings project so I needed something else to fill out the site until I got JANMV together. I love to read, so book reviews it was.

I did. Spent about a half hour sketching out ideas at a coffee shop. Let the ideas percolate, than got to designing in Photoshop. Than cut it all up and coded and style the template. I have the advantage of doing this for a living.

WordPress. Since I’m a front-end web developer I download the developer’s version and run my blog on my own hosting account.

No. A simple FAQ plugin for WordPress would have been great so I didn’t have to old-school it.

I have a lot of favorite books. My Favorites shelf on GoodReads had 38 titles last time I looked.

My What I’m Reading post has a dynamic list from my GoodReads Currently Reading shelf.

Um…no?