To Read or To Reread—There Is No Question
My “To Be Read” pile has grown alarmingly since I joined the Book Publishing program and Ooligan Press. Between the required reading, the recommended reading (that is really more required […]
Taking Publishing Lab for No Credit
“Mom, I have to come home. I have no idea what I’m doing here, but everyone else is so accomplished already, and I’m not good at any of it.” During […]
Coping With Galleys
Did you know Ooligan Press undertakes a backlist sales initiative every term? It’s true! Last spring the Siblings team dug into the Ooligan sales data and our past social media […]
A New Term, A New Manuscript, and Soon, A New Title
Hello, and welcome to the glossy new Start to Finish page for the tentatively titled Conspiring to be Meri, the young adult fiction manuscript we acquired this spring by the […]
When Your Friends Ask You How Books Work
Uncertain what to discuss in this blog post, I decided to engage in a little crowdsourcing—hoping my friends might be able to come up with a new and interesting idea […]
Looking Back to Move Ahead
Lately when thinking about Ricochet River, our team has been thinking a lot about change. Living in Portland these days, it’s impossible not to notice the pace of change. Sometimes […]
You Mean We Need A Cover for This Book?!
First, allow me to introduce myself: as the new project manager for Seven Stitches, I have taken over for Alyssa Gnall and have a large role to fill. As part […]
W2P 2017 Programming Updates!
The Write to Publish team has been hard at work planning all of the content that will be in this year’s conference, and we have passed several milestones that mean […]
White Paper vs. Paperwhite: Evaluating the Ebook Experience
There are certain things that you just don’t say around publishing people. One of those things you don’t say is that cats smell. I learned this one the hard way […]
Blazing the Ooligan Trail(er)
The book trailer: that rare and infamous chimera that prowls the lush, creeping undergrowth at the peripheries of the literary world, surfacing without warning from social media and blog feeds […]