If you search for articles about the audiobook industry, the first thing that most include is the outstanding growth of the medium. Publisher’s Weekly articles mention the eleven years of […]
A manuscript wish list (MSWL) is a curated list created by literary agents, editors, and publishers that outlines the specific types of manuscripts or book projects they are currently interested in acquiring. By creating or viewing MSWLs, both authors and publishing professionals can streamline the process, ensuring that the right stories find their way to the right hands.
“In most of our lives, for most of our days—especially here in the rainy, gray Pacific Northwest—we are surrounded by neutral shades. These are important. They make up most of our color landscape. So why shouldn’t they make up more of our compositions as designers?”
As a small indie press, we need to focus our efforts on applying for awards that are within the realm of possibility. Each book has a budget, for starters, which definitely prompts us to prioritize. A few awards we typically apply to include the Pacific Northwest Book Awards (PNBA), Foreword Indies, and Oregon Book Awards (OBA).
Taylor Swift is one of the few artists that can be played at any time during the Valentine’s Day season. She writes about falling in love, loneliness, heartbreak, friendships, and […]
Since January 7, wildfires have devastated communities throughout southern California. In response, local organizations, businesses, and individuals have rallied to provide relief, offering everything from shelter to food and monetary donations to help restore the vitality of these communities. Amid this devastation, I’ve been particularly moved by the inspiring efforts of local libraries and booksellers to support their neighbors in need.
Good documentation takes its audience into consideration, is clear, organized, and kept up to date. Whatever information you use in your professional career, taking the time to curate concise, clear documentation and practice good naming and organizational principles will give you a stronger foundation for future projects and help you easily explain what you do and how you do it.
It’s not always clear how manuscripts move between departments in the publishing industry. Who decides when they’re ready to go and what information gets exchanged? This process may vary from press to press depending on the size of the departments, but here at Ooligan, there’s a standardized process to transfer the manuscript from acquisitions to copyeditor and the project manager who will take the manuscript throughout the rest of the publishing process.
Often, books in the children’s Spanish section are bilingual, and the translations leave much to be desired and not just due to errors. Despite living in the United States, where the majority of Spanish speakers are Mexican and from other Latin American countries, bilingual books and translations often use Castellano Spanish … from Spain! No one from Latin America speaks Spanish the way the Spanish speak Spanish.
It’s easy to get swept up in the stories we experience via ebooks and audiobooks, but it adds another layer of appreciation when we can better understand how they make it into our digital libraries.
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