Marilyn A. Hudson

Female

Norman, Oklahoma

United States

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Something About Me and My Book:
A professional librarian, historian, and storyteller, Marilyn A. Hudson is the Director of Library Services for a private University. Prior to this, she served as public services librarian for a metropolitan library system and as a library media specialist for public schools. Listed in the 1997 Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities, she was the 2002 recipient of the OLA Outstanding New Librarian Award, and member of the Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society, Golden Key, and Phi Kappa Phi. Her general research interests are in history, especially social, religious, and church history; women’s studies; mythology, folklore and storytelling. Hudson was lead writer and editor of the book, One Night Club and A Mule Barn: The First 60 Years of Southwestern Christian University and authored, Those Pesky Verses of Paul: Examining Women in the New Testament, Elephant Hips are Expensive, and others. She received a B.A. in History and an M.L.I.S. from the University of Oklahoma.
Contact: marilynahudson@yahoo.com

Her books:
"The Bones of Summer: A Collection of Chilling Tales"
"When Death Rode the Rails: Strange deaths along Oklahoma rails, 1900 to 2000."
"Those Pesky Verses of Paul"
"Tales of Hell's Half Acre: True tales of early Oklahoma City"
"The Mound: A Novel"
"Noel Brooks: A Life Shining and Burning, 1914-2006"
Forthcoming works:

Madame Delaine and the Daring Girl Detective
Madame Delaine and the Invasion of the Areostats
Foul Harvest, a novel


I also do book promotion for Oklahoma authors or Oklahoma themed books at OKLAHOMA WRITERS (www.okwriters.blogspot.com) and a limited free - but professional - review service at , "REVIEW IT!" (http://reviewservice.blogspot.com/).
Website:
http://www.whorlbooks.blogspot.com

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  • Lisa Copen

    Hi, Mary! I am updating the Christian author connection group here at BMN and cleaning up the comments section. Your comments (below) however are wonderful and I did not wish to delete them but rather move them somewhere where people can find them more easily... I'm wondering if you had any other tips you would like to share and perhaps we could start a discussion area for people who actually are librarians, and work in a Christian bookstore, etc. on how books should be better described, classified, shelved, and more. Would you be interested?

    In my experience, as a professional librarian and book selector, often times the ball is dropped in the development phase. There have been many instances when I really wanted to add a book to the collection of a library - but could not determine what the TOPIC or SUBJECT matter of the book was.

    I encourage authors - even those working with editors (because not all are created equal) - to sit down and in 2-3 sentences describe their book without "jargon", nomenclature, or confusion.

    Example:
    "Pride of Lions is dynamic examination of the way people often function in life, roaring and tossing around a proud mane of self-importance, while others work quietly in the backgroun doing the hard parts. Learn how to identify these "lions", how to work with and around them, and how to maintain your own self-worth in the midst of a "Pride".

    We need to be aware that our use of terms may not be understood the same way across a wide audience group.

    Jul 15, 2010

  • Lisa Copen

    I apologize for another post. We were not "friends" yet on this network and I did not want to delete your posts without having it pasted somewhere! here is the conclusion of it

    Example:
    I was working with a woman wanting to write on women pastors. She chose the term "women's ministries" in her description of the work. The male reading that proposal interpreted it using his frame of references: women's Bible study groups, church work with women, etc. The author meant one thing and her reader understood the term in a different way. Other terms that can lead to confusion include: ecumenical, prophetic, apostolic, charismatic, pentecostal, evangelical, etc.

    All of these lead directly to problems in marketing. Be clear in what you want to create, communicate that clearly, and then keep repeating.

    Jul 15, 2010