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.
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.
Here is an overview of library resources and programs which might be relevant to you, a person concerned with books, that you may not already be aware of.
As a reader, I never gave much thought to how book descriptions were written. If pushed, I might have guessed that they were written by the author, or maybe the […]
In June 2023, the European Union introduced the EU Deforestation Regulation, a sweeping replacement for the EU Timber Regulation that had been in place for the previous decade. While the […]
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.
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.
The Chicago Manual of Style has a lot of information in it. But once you get a hang of how things are organized and how to best search within the guide, you can quickly begin finding all the information you need to help bolster your editing skills.