Bloody Wednesday
Ahhh, Independence Day. A holiday intended to honor and celebrate America’s brave beginnings and illustrious history. A holiday of opposing emotions. And much like Thanksgiving, for many of us it […]
Publishing Translated Works
The life of a book is fairly simple: author writes book, book is acquired by the publisher, book is edited (and edited and edited), book is marketed, book is published, […]
A Beginner’s Guide to Interior Book Design
The biggest and best revelation of my time at Ooligan Press so far has been how much I love working on book interiors. Covers are kind of the show horse […]
Interview with Author Marian Pierce
In Narrative Design, Madison Smartt Bell charges that the environment of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop fosters a “group mind” that produces “well-tooled, inoffensive, unexceptional, and rather dull” writing. Marian Pierce […]
Wax On, Wax Off
We were severely late, and the production room was a madhouse. The editorial staff was hugging the walls, having learned—for their own safety—to stay out of the way of the […]
Oolies’ Desert Island Picks
It’s an old and painful hypothetical: If you could take only one book with you to pass the time on a desert island, which would you choose? Let’s assume you’ve […]
Is the Market for YA Dystopia Growing as Bleak as the Genre’s Content?
Shortly after The Divergent Series: Allegiant hit theaters, searches for “YA dystopia” in Google News yielded a veritable barrage of articles declaring that the genre was finally on its way […]
Are Big Books Better? Why the Long Novel is Here to Stay
I recently noticed that novels seem to be getting longer, so I did what any twenty-first century inquiring mind would and googled it. My search uncovered Publishers Weekly‘s “Fiction Gets […]
Interview with Author Kali VanBaale
Kali VanBaale’s debut novel, The Space Between, earned an American Book Award (the Independent Publisher’s silver medal for general fiction) and the Fred Bonnie Memorial First Novel Award. Her short […]
Where’d My Galley Go?: Book Reviews Gone Awry
I have a confession: I know what happened to my galleys. I know what happened, because I have been on the other end of this customary transaction between book publishers […]