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Mapping Literary Landscapes: Designing Diagrams for Ricochet River and At The Waterline

By Leigh Thomas @leighkaisen

February 6, 2017 by Digital Content Leave a Comment

Mapping Literary Landscapes: Designing Diagrams for Ricochet River and At The Waterline

If you’re of the bookish persuasion (and if you’re reading this blog post, the odds are probably good), you may also be of the mappish persuasion: when you pick up a book and discover it contains a map, a little piece of you erupts in excitement over this double-page spread that promises a literary quest is waiting inside.

Filed Under: Design, Manager Monday, Publishing Tagged With: At the Waterline, book production, Design, design process, diagrams, illustration, maps, Pacific Northwest, Ricochet River

Remarketing a Reprint: Ricochet River’s Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition

By Emily HagenBurger @ehagenburger

February 3, 2017 by Digital Content Leave a Comment

Remarketing a Reprint: Ricochet River’s Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition

Book marketing is a funny business. First of all, it’s impossible to predict what will sell and what won’t. You just have to put everything you can into attracting an audience and getting the word out, then hope to everything you believe in that people buy your book out of the millions that are already out there. These difficulties are only increased when the book you’re working on isn’t new but, in fact, has been published for twenty-five years.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: Marketing, Ooligan, Ricochet River, Robin Cody, storytelling, teaching, YA lit

XML Coding: Bridging the Gap Between Editing and Design

By Amylia Ryan @amylia_ryan

February 1, 2017 by Digital Content Leave a Comment

XML Coding: Bridging the Gap Between Editing and Design

What is XML, anyway? Is it some fancy new coding language I have to learn? Why do we use it? Why is it part of the editing department?

Filed Under: Editing, Publishing Tagged With: coding, Editing, Ricochet River, Robin Cody, xml

The Unglamorous Truth of Being a Publisher’s Assistant

By Frances Kane and Melina Hughes @kfrancesstella

January 30, 2017 by Digital Content Leave a Comment

The Unglamorous Truth of Being a Publisher’s Assistant

With the help of the project managers, we are working to ensure that no important work is lost going forward. And like Nancy Drew, we will investigate the whereabouts of those old missing files.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan, Manager Monday, Publishing Tagged With: Archives, grad students, Nancy Drew, ooligan press, projects, publisher's assistant

Representation in Nonfiction

By Kento Ikeda @kentoikeda

January 27, 2017 by Digital Content Leave a Comment

Representation in Nonfiction

There is no clear benchmark one can use to determine what is appropriate representation in global-minded nonfiction.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: demographics, diversity, non-fiction, representation

Ricochet River Cover Reveal!

By Jacoba Lawson

January 25, 2017 by Digital Content Leave a Comment

Ricochet River Cover Reveal!

The design process is always a lesson in refinement.

Filed Under: Publishing, Start to Finish Tagged With: book covers, Design, Happy Little Trees, High School, Ricochet River, Robin Cody, YA

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