The Grueling Lifestyle Manga Artists Endure Each Week
I’ve always been fascinated by the work manga artists achieve in a week alone. Imaging having to create a whole new story every seven days?
Knowing How to Edit Out-of-This-World Science Fiction Stories
In sci-fi, it can be easy to get caught up in the new jargon or futuristic technology without noticing the fact that a character, who previously had an important role in a scene, has seemingly disappeared out of nowhere while the action continued without them. It is important to be mindful of every element within an active scene and how it connects to everything else. Where did that character go?
Barnes & Noble to Open Sixty New Stores; Are We Ready to Return to Physical Media?
While the increase in print book sales is encouraging, it doesn’t necessarily correlate to less time spent on our phones. However, I’m encouraged by the fact that online platforms, while still inescapable, are being used less as a complete replacement for analog media and human connection and more as a way to discover new stories and build real-life communities around those stories.
How Book Subscriptions Boost Marketing for Books
On the marketing and publicity side, book subscriptions can increase book sales as well as visibility. Readers get to discover books and genres they normally wouldn’t pick up at the bookstore. In return, authors, especially new and up-and-coming authors, are able to get their books into the hands of their target audience.
Comics as Educational Tools: Publishing Can Do Better
A lot of kids love comics, even the ones who don’t think of themselves as readers. I’ve seen students absolutely inhale beat-up library copies of Bone, Smile, or Dragonball Z in their free time while they simultaneously struggled to even comprehend the texts I assigned in class, let alone be interested in or enjoy them. Stories told in visuals, with minimal written language, pull in readers who otherwise have a hard time reading.
Tips for Making Your Life Easier When Reading Great Books: Created by and for People with Learning Disabilities
Reading the classics seems like a great idea until you hit a passage that is particularly hard to decipher. Many classics are published using old translations, meaning that the writing can feel unfamiliar and almost foreign. Now, imagine that, like me, you’re dyslexic, or have a learning disability that makes reading more challenging.
Why We Need More Diverse Editors
Just how accurate would it be to claim that there are now more publishing opportunities for people of color and other marginalized persons if only one side of the coin is polished? The publishing industry doesn’t just need to diversify its writers, but the people who help and support those writers too.
Listening to Literature: How Audiobooks Can Help Readers Focus
With the rise of the internet and social media, combined with the ever-shifting digital landscape, it can be hard to sit down in the peace and quiet and actually get some reading done. Often, it feels like a chore to read, especially with the allure of content platforms like Instagram or TikTok singing a siren song, begging to steal you away from your books. But in recent years, an alternative way to read has come into the forefront of the public eye: audiobooks.
Through My Eyes
I am in a program where the classroom is an example of a trade press, and I assist in the book publishing process. Yet, when I get home, I can’t read the printed books. This is the reality of being visually impaired at Ooligan Press.
Editing with ADHD: Practical Strategies for a Sustainable Freelance Practice
If you have ADHD, you’ve heard it before. Just use a timer. Make detailed lists. Try this app. As if the problem is not knowing these tools exist, rather than how to adapt them for ADHD. Building a sustainable editing practice isn’t about finding the right system. It’s about building one around how your brain actually works.