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oprahDr. Phil. Dr. Oz. Suze Orman. Nate Berkus. Eckhart Tolle. While these individuals may have become household names of their own accord (unlikely), it was the talk show host and media mogul Oprah Winfrey who made them what they are today: best-selling bajillionaires. And that's where Oprah By 2011 comes in. Tina Marie Frawley of Charleston, South Carolina knows that, with Oprah Winfrey's final season coming to a close, she has a small window of time to publish her book and get The Big O to shill it with guttural shouting the way she did for The Secret and every time John Travolta wears a new hairpiece on her stage.

tina frawleyAnd, let's face it, there is at least one person in your life who is "working on" a screenplay or novel, which he knows will, upon publication, blast him into the literary or cinematic stratosphere, earning him fame, fortune, and the knowledge that his work matters. These days, that type of achievement blasts off from one person's suggestion, in particular: OPRAH.

Frawley works full time as a waitress at two restaurants, edits My Petz Magazine, and -- most importantly -- finished a historical fiction novel that she plans to finish and get into Oprah's hands (and as an official Oprah's Book Club choice) by September 2011. Her blog, Oprah By 2011, keeps us up-to-date on all developments, including a time line, word count, and excerpts from the book itself, still untitled. In fact, she even provides us with a summary of the novel, The Princess of the Underground Railroad.


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So why not follow Frawley's progress, especially since she's already "fielded calls" from publishers and agents? This could really happen, and to think it may all have started on a simple little Wordpress blog by one woman, desperate to land on Planet Oprah before it's too late!