W2P 2017 Panels & Workshops Update
With just about two months until Write to Publish (W2P), we’re excited to see everything is coming together! We are pleased to announce our panelists and their corresponding areas of […]
New Aura: Contemporary Author-Reader Relationships
As students who specialize in book publishing, we encounter the question, what is publicity? In Book Marketing, Professor Juergens states that “publicity is a company’s or a person’s or a […]
Controlled Chaos: Tips for Conducting Interviews
If you’re a blogger, a freelance writer, a journalist, or even a student with Ooligan Press, your chances of needing to interview someone at some point in time are pretty […]
Eight Tips for Crafting Better Dialogue
Good dialogue is one of the most crucial ingredients for a well-written story—and, to the frustration of many a would-be author, one of the easiest to bungle. Writers often commit […]
Growing Collaboration in Publishing
Frances: While siblings are always a disappointment, your friends are not—especially when you get to work with them. And at Ooligan Press, we have been increasing the amount of projects […]
In Defense of Independent Publishing Houses
By the time I was nineteen and a sophomore at the University of Arizona, I was disillusioned with everything in general, but reading and writing in particular. I was applying […]
Deviating from the Trope: YA without the Romance
The entire purpose of young adult literature is to connect with the unique experiences of preteens and teenagers. Successful authors seek to uncover the raw, emotional reality behind these tumultuous, […]
Mapping Trends in Readership
I’ve traveled a lot in my life. As soon as I land in a new place, I like to pore over a map of wherever I am to get a […]
Social Media and Print Books: The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship
These days, a lot of focus is put on social media as a marketing tool. For us book readers, this can be both a good and bad thing. Phrases like […]
In Defense of the Classics
As part of my efforts to meet people when I moved to Portland two years ago, I joined a meetup group. Six months ago, a handful of us started a […]