About Jean

Jean skiing the Canadian Rockies.

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Jean Oram was raised listening to vinyl in an old school house in the middle of the Canadian prairie. After trekking through six countries and teaching hundreds of people how to ski, she decided it was time to get a ‘real’ career and thus attended university. In the first week of school, she landed a position as an entertainment reporter where she enjoyed free movies and tickets to hot concerts and shows all over the city, winning contributor of the week several times over for her work.

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One of Jean's Favourite Hobbies

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After graduating with distinction and a sociology degree, Jean quickly realized she had aimed herself straight for the fast-paced city life, a desk, nine-to-five, and high heels. Fearful for her sanity as well as the health of her wide feet, she slipped on flats and hid away in a high school library converting teenagers into readers, and enjoying her all-new favorite past time—buying thousands of books with other people’s money. Within years, she began writing her own novels.

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Jean canoeing the Red Deer River.

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She currently serves as AgentQuery.com’s chat moderator (for real-time literary agent and author chats) as well as an AgentQuery.com mentor and critiquer. Jean also reviews books for ThomasNelson on her blog (free books!) and is a member of RWA. She lives in Alberta, Canada with her husband, daughter, and like many other writers, two cats who fill her laptop fan with cat hair.

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To learn more about my writing aspirations and career goals, check out my interview on TK Richardson’s blog.