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All About Review Requests and Their Place in the Process

In the book production process, every task is meant to build on one another, and making sure your work stays integrated throughout the project will result in a strong book launch. In this blog I want to focus on review requests and how they incorporate all of the work done before in the project and build a strong platform for the work to come after.

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Here & Queer (Coded): The Importance of Using LGBTQ+ BISAC Codes

Until publishers adapt to the usage of queer BISAC codes, we will never be able to measure the true extent of queer literature’s popularity, which is not only detrimental to accurate sales analysis, but also to the queer community itself. Queer literature has long existed in the margins—published only by independent presses, relegated to “special interest” bookstores, and so on. But with the genre’s significant and longstanding popularity, as well as its movement into the general public’s eye, there is no reason for it to remain on the sidelines.

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Writing Rules Need Not Apply

Now that I’m one year into the book publishing program at Ooligan, I can clearly see a disconnect between what writers talk about among each other and the publishing world. This is especially true when it comes to writing “rules” that circulate in writing circles and on all the writing-related hashtags.

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Choosing a Readable Font

How do you choose a font? Leave the default in? Google the top five fonts for fiction and pick one? Research which fonts are accessible? There are a few basic principles that should be considered before everything else.

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