Making Strides Toward a Finished Project
Whew! Ooligan Press has been busy over the last few weeks—hence the slight delay in this post. The bad news: this summer just keeps flying by! The good news: the […]
Four Amazing Books You Won’t Find On Any Other Summer Reading List
By Rebekah Hunt As the middle of summer approaches, people are getting ready to go on vacation (or are already on vacation, if they don’t go to summer school like […]
Backlist to the Future: Speaking Out: Women, War and the Global Economy
By Rebekah Hunt [Trigger Warning: factual reporting of sexual violence, abduction, and abuse; graphic first-person account of sexual violence.] Today in the wayback machine, we visit our 2009 title Speaking […]
Roosevelt High School Students Present Anthology at Powell’s
It was the first time reading in public for many of the Roosevelt High School students who participated in the Where the Roses Smell the Best presentation at Powell’s on […]
Willamette Writers’ Conference 2013!
By Rebekah Hunt Ladies and Gentlemen: the Willamette Writers’ Conference is upon us! It will be held August 1st through 4th at the Portland Airport Sheraton Hotel, and registration is […]
Unique Ink: Roosevelt High School’s Student-Run Publishing Program
by Rebekah Hunt This summer term, I had the immense pleasure of participating in Ooligan’s collaboration with Roosevelt High School’s Unique Ink Publishing program. Organized by the incomparable Dennis Stovall, […]
The Battle for a Digital Pricing Model that Works Part 4: The Return of the Jedi!
by Rebekah Hunt According to Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords, the solution to the digital publishing issue is simple. “The day has come,” he says, “for publishers to offer a […]
Magic Wands, Sonic Screwdrivers and Nerdfighteria: Or My Weekend at LeakyCon 2013
I’m a self-professed dork. But I’m not alone in my dorkdom. I go to school with people whose lives revolve around books. And I’ll tell you what; it’s not a […]
Lucia Misch Guest Poet Post: “Contingencies”
Every Thursday since January, 2013, Ooligan Press has invited a poet whose work is included in Alive at the Center, our anthology of poetry from Pacific Northwest writers, to blog for us. […]
The Battle for a Digital Pricing Model that Works Part 3: The Dark Side of the Force & A New Hope
By Rebekah Hunt The book industry has been slower to evolve than other industries. The big retail chains, who had undercut the already wobbly industry’s prices on paperback books back […]