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My son recently did a report on Oprah and learned that she was required to do five book reports every two weeks for her father after she went to live with him. She said that her father’s influence helped her become who she is today, and I am sure reading was a huge part of it. Those of us who can see the influence of the written word on our lives are the ones who are passionate about it. I think this is the only thing I have in common with Oprah.

I find it ridiculous to say that she has the job of “helping out” authors. She has no such task. Her job with the book club is to engage people with books that will enhance their lives and she does this with aplomb.

Oprah is a good influence because ANYONE who can get the ENTIRE COUNTRY to read ANNA KARENINA, The Sound and the Fury, and East of Eden and ENJOY them is worthy of our esteem.

It is odd isn’t it. How we bemoan the loss of reading in our culture. Yet, when someone comes along and encourages not just reading but quality reading, we question, criticize, poo-poo, and scorn her because she is “main stream.”

Oprah tends to pick books that others would overlook. Literary fiction isn’t the first choice of many, yet that’s what she choses. She alerts readers who might usually segment themselves to one genre and gets them to stretch.

No one disputes her power. I mean, if the woman chooses your book, no doubt this will absolve you from any negative reviews of your prose, plot, pace or characters. In a sense, you’re free. So it might seem like a cool thing, but really… I wonder if in the long run, it could be a noose for both reader and writer.

The problem becomes when Oprah loses her objectiveness. I think she did that with Frey, and I believe she’s doing it with The Secret.

The Secret… well… all I can say is that this is what spoke to her at the time. Which in a way, with her gigantic success in business and her number of staff, she really can make things happen just by thinking about and giving directives. And so, perhaps she thought we could too.

So hey, Jim… there’s your answer!

Just THINK really hard about your clients books getting on the Oprah show. When her show comes on, place the books around the TV screen. Make little fake “Oprah” stickers and put them on the covers.

If you can SEE it, it will come true! I swear! That’s what The Secret says!

1. I’ve heard of Nutella, never knew what it was precisely, but now…I’m buying it. It apparently combines two of my favorite things in the world, cocoa and nuts. (Two of the major food groups in one swell foop.)

2. I’m not buying anything Oprah says to buy, period, end of sentence. Nothing personal, but as someone put it here, the fact that she successfully snubs genre fiction of all sorts means there are a whole lot of us who don’t ever have a hope of having her pick us and make our careers. Trouble is, lots of us also happen to LIKE genre fiction…and we’re people who would actually read (and did) whether Oprah had ever come along or not.

3. Jim, I’m sending you a query as soon as I can sit down, chain myself to a non-work-site computer, and write the danged thing up. Pictionary as a contact sport? You and I are on the same page…

heh heh
Janny

Nutella is a staple in a lot of pantries in Europe, and you can find it in most grocery stores now, near the PB&J.

Costco sells Nutella in a twin pack–works out to be about half-price or better compared to a grocery store.

I suppose there are people who will try Nutella because “literary people” blogged about it and like it, or because it is “European” or something like that. And then they’ll turn around to their friends and say, “You mean you haven’t heard about NUTELLA?!”

Honestly, it’s just dang good.

Hereabouts, Nutella, (Ella Beauteen by christian name), is that ole’ stringy white headed nature woman what stomps barefoot on fire swingin’ a calico Bobcat, She lives yonder on Puddin Hill, and howls ever full moon and keeps her finger and toenail clippin’s in shoe boxes.

Haste yee back 😉