Sword and Sorcery and the Classroom
Reading has been linked to learning and developing empathy, but a study published in Cognitive Development in 2015 believes that fantasy stories in particular could be linked to better learning. […]
Red Pens and Retcons: Changing Readers’ Experiences
There are so many things I want to talk about, and they all revolve around the question of ownership of stories and the idea of author/reader interaction. When a story […]
Advice from CALYX Authors to Inspire You to Be Your Most Awesome Self
CALYX Journal, the feminist literary periodical, was founded forty years ago on March 11, 1976, by four women intent on providing a forum for the many wide-ranging and diverse voices […]
Ooligan Press Does #PitMad
The Ooligan Press acquisitions department will participate in the Twitter pitch party #PitMad on Thursday, March 17. If Ooligan’s Twitter account—@ooliganpress—likes your #PitMad tweet, we have officially invited you to […]
Manager Monday: The Importance of Digital Patriotism (Social Media)
Back in 2010, digital theorist and UC Berkeley lecturer Howard Rheingold wrote an article titled “Attention, and Other 21st-Century Social Media Literacies,” wherein he explains five online proficiencies he believes […]
Harry Potter and Barnes & Noble: The Girl Who Lived
I’ve never read Harry Potter. But I have reasons. The phenomenon of Harry Potter nearly cost me my sanity. I was in high school when Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s […]
Lady-Powered Publishing: Local Women Who Are Leaving Their Mark on the Publishing Industry
Women have been involved in publishing since the seventeenth century. Elizabeth Glover brought the first printing press to the colonies and opened The Cambridge Press. As a woman, she had […]
Diversifying My Reading in 2015
Diversity is a never-ending conversation within the publishing industry. I say never-ending because, despite the repeated conversations about the importance of representation within books, as well as the diversity of […]
Putting Memories on the Radar
A funny thing happens in the period of time between the actual printing and delivery of a book and the book’s true publication date, two events that occur so close […]
Surprise! Amazon Opens a Brick-and-Mortar Store
Picture this: You sit down with your morning coffee and routinely check your social media site of choice—in this case Twitter. Lo and behold, the trending topic of that dreary […]