Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf
By Monica Rudolph-Ruiz Saiya Miller and Liza Bley are currently on tour promoting their first book, Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf: A Sex Education Comic Book, published by Soft Skull Press. […]
Oni Press Internship
There was something magical about reading comics as a kid that, when I think about it now, really paved the way for my lifelong love of literature. Reading X-Men comics […]
Authors Lend a Helping Hand
It is common knowledge that independent bookstores have been struggling to stay in business. Studies have shown that fewer and fewer people are actually finding books in bookstores. With the […]
Reaching Out to Teachers and Students
Greetings Readers, Four weeks down already—time flies when you’re making books. Things are moving fast now, and soon we will be able to share We Belong in History with you. […]
Government shutdown = Ooligan shutdown?
Although news networks loved to focus on the striking visual images associated with the government shutdown of 2013—the outraged veterans unable to pay their respects at the WWII memorial; the […]
Writing Excuses: notes on a podcast
Despite the fact that I’ve improved my tendency to procrastinate over the years, those tendencies can still lurk in the background and rear their ugly head. I recently discovered a […]
Assignments of All Sizes
This week in the world of TheNinth Day, the team has been keeping pretty busy. In addition to big picture duties like finalizing launch details and designing collateral, we have […]
Author Interview: Simone Elkeles
Simone Elkeles, a self-proclaimed “housewife from Chicago,” recently hit the New York Times Best Seller List with the final installment of her teen romance trilogy Perfect Chemistry. She is also […]
Memory, Authenticity & the Genre of Memoir
You always get at least one James Frey reference in a discussion about memoir. The memoirist/fabulist, whose initial embrace and eventual evisceration by Oprah Winfrey is now a touchstone in […]
An Internship at Late Night Library
Late Night Library. I immediately liked something about the name. Perhaps it was the notion of a library—evoking a sense of community, egalitarianism, a quiet coziness—that first grabbed my attention. […]