6/12/2023 0 Comments Being Jamie Baker by Kelly Oram![]() ![]() But, I can’t tell you how rewarding it is to see all of my hard work come to life. ![]() “It has been as frustrating as it has been exciting, and there were more than several times when I wanted to call it quits. ![]() Oram’s husband gave them her manuscript, and they wanted to publish it, allowing her to be part of the creative process because they are a smaller publishing house.įrom writing the very first sentence to seeing the book released has taken nearly three years. They were looking to get into book publishing and were seeking mainstream material, preferably aimed at young females-the “Twilight” crowd. Oram was in the writing query letters to publishers and agents phase at a time when her husband was doing some graphics work for a multi-media company called Bluefields. Coming up with a story and its characters were just the beginning of a long writing and publishing process. Her first draft took roughly seven months to write. While you can find hundreds of teen novels about vampires and werewolves, if you want a good old-fashioned superhero story, you pretty much have to look to comic books.” Oram said. “Being Jamie Baker” was born from a desire to write a story about a girl with superpowers. ![]()
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