http://jeanoram.com/blog . Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:17:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For awhile, reading Publishers Lunch everyday was like a constantly updated Who's Who of small bookstores that were closing their doors due to the economy's gentle slide downhill. Now that the economy is considered to be officially on the downhill slide, reading Publishers Lunch has become like reading a Who's Who of library ... http://jeanoram.com/blog/2008/11/14/save-your-library/ I'm going to tell you things that may shock you today. Or at least make you think 'what the hell?' Are you ready? First of all the Giller Prize. A fancy, dancy book award. Turns out Giller Prize books may not even be read by the judges. Uh, huh. You heard ... http://jeanoram.com/blog/2008/11/13/the-truth-book-awards-bestsellers-and-contest-winners/ Both literary agents Kristen Nelson and Kate Schafer Testerman are spilling the beans this week on what's hot out there in the book market. In other words what editors want to see so they can publish it. That would be calls for middle grade and basically creepy, thriller, suspense sort ... http://jeanoram.com/blog/2008/11/12/whats-hot-book-market/ My fingers are burning up my keyboard so amazingly fast that there are flames shooting out all over the place. Okay, maybe not. But I did write 4,228 words in about 3 hours this afternoon. That's pretty fast. My word count for NaNoWriMo is now 13,052. Wahoo! And the story is ... http://jeanoram.com/blog/2008/11/06/flaming-fingers/ Today, I officially began writing my story for NaNoWriMo. I must say, I am a writing machine. In the span of two hours, I went from 0 words to 2888. And they even make sense. Plus, I think I even have progression working in my favour this time. However, I'm not ... http://jeanoram.com/blog/2008/11/03/down-to-nano-business/ I've promised myself to write a new story for NaNoWriMo this month. I even have a story idea that has been flouncing around in the back of my head for at least 6-8 months. No worries, right? Well maybe if the genre I write in wasn't dead. Seriously. I had a ... http://jeanoram.com/blog/2008/11/02/nano-uh-oh/ I have to say, I love the Internet and the opportunities it has afforded me lately. It's sweet! Today I discovered that I could become a book reviewer for the publisher Thomas Nelson. What that means is that if you have a blog, you can sign up to be a reviewer. ... http://jeanoram.com/blog/2008/10/30/im-a-thomas-nelson-book-reviewer/ For me, the end of October means Halloween. It also means that my husband's birthday is right around the corner and now, that NaNoWriMo is too! On the subject of Halloween, I still have a gorgeous lion costume I was planning to take to a consignment shop. But like last year, it'll ... http://jeanoram.com/blog/2008/10/29/here-comes-halloweenagain/ There's been lots of hubbub lately about the economy. If you get the daily emails from Publishers Lunch you'll have noticed that it isn't that unusual to read a report of another bookstore going down. Occasionally, like the other day, you have a publisher declare bankruptcy. If you are like me, ... http://jeanoram.com/blog/2008/10/25/publishers-go-belly-up/ Once upon a time, not too long ago, people in Canadian bookstores were getting into fisty cuffs over book prices. You see the Canadian dollar began to soar to heights previously unknown. The problem is that in Canada books are marked with American prices and Canadian prices. The American price ... http://jeanoram.com/blog/2008/10/22/canadian-dollar-and-book-sales/