[Libs-Or] HarperCollins looking for Librarians' essays

Tue Dec 15 14:56:28 PST 2009

Yes and yes...

Colin M. Rea

Director, Fern Ridge Library District

PO Box 397

88026 Territorial Road

Veneta, OR 97487

541.935.7512     fax 541.935.8013

www.fernridgelibrary.org

What I'm Reading: The Tyranny of E-mail: The 4000 Year Journey to your
Inbox by John Freeman

From: libs-or-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
[mailto:libs-or-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Leora
Troper
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 2:32 PM
To: Laurie O'Connor
Cc: 'Libs-or'
Subject: Re: [Libs-Or] HarperCollins looking for Librarians' essays

Did anyone send Mr. Lennertz an essay and if so, did you ever hear back
from him?

Leora Troper-Hochstein

Laurie O'Connor wrote: 

FYI, examples from and information about the "prototype", Great Lakes
Reader, are available at http://www.greatlakesreader.com/ 

Laurie O'Connor, Cataloging

Harney County Library

80 West D Street

Burns, OR 97720

541-573-7339

harneylo at highdesertair.com 

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[mailto:libs-or-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Perry
Stokes
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 8:22 AM
To: Libs-or
Subject: Re: [Libs-Or] HarperCollins looking for Librarians' essays

Good Morning All,

Here's an essay publishing opportunity I'd like to share.

Best of luck,

____________________________

Perry Stokes, Director

Baker County Library District

2400 Resort St

Baker City, OR 97814

541.523.6419

541.523.9088 (fax)

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Thom Chambliss <mailto:thom at pnba.org>  

To: Oregon Booksellers & LIbrarians <mailto:info at pnba.org>  

Cc: Carl Lennertz <mailto:Carl.Lennertz at HARPERCOLLINS.com>  

Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 1:33 PM

Subject: Harper looking for YOUR essays

Dear Oregon Booksellers,

Carl Lennertz at Harper is working on essay collections for each of the
regional booksellers associations, and says that he needs some essays
from and/or about Oregon, written by past or present booksellers or
librarians. He wonders if PNBA can help. Attached below is a mock-up of
the potential cover for the PNW version, in case seeing it will help you
imagine the project. [deleted due to listserv size limit]

Carl is looking for essays by booksellers, librarians, sales reps, or
even publishers, if they know the state and have a good
story/subject/presentation. He does NOT want stories ABOUT the bookstore
or the library, per se, but stories BY booksellers or librarians. He is
avoiding authors at this point, because they tend to have an audience.
The finished collection will be published by Delphinium, an imprint of
Harper, and will be promoted and sold in the indie market.

If you have any ideas, or know someone else who might be interested in
contributing, I would appreciate your passing this request along.
Inquiries, essays and ideas may be sent directly to Carl for his
consideration. Here are a few notes from Carl, about the specifics:

About 2,500 words and by Word doc by email to me only. If I can use it,
we?ll do an edit together to make it poifect.

As you?ll see in our model for this project, Ecco?s State by State, some
authors once lived in the state they wrote about, or do now, but some
were sent to the state for a first, fresh look. I don?t think you have
time for the latter, but really, anything goes. Likewise, I?m open to
pieces about parts of larger states.

NOTE: These are NOT about bookstore life; you?re Jane or John Citizen on
this, but of course, working in the book life as part of the piece would
be more than fine.

If you?d like a Word version of the Great Lakes Reader to get a feel for
the variety of themes, I can email that to you.

The book will have PNBA?s member store list in the back. Portion of
proceeds to ABFFE!

Email me if you have any questions: carl at harpercollins.com
<mailto:carl at harpercollins.com> 

Thanks for considering it.

Sincerely,

Thom

Thom Chambliss, Executive Director

Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association

214 East 12th Avenue

Eugene, OR 97401-3245

T: 541-683-4363

F: 541-683-3910

E: thom at pnba.org <mailto:thom at pnba.org> 

W: www.pnba.org <http://www.pnba.org> 

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