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 I do). Anticipating the free time we’ve suddenly got, many of us are thinking about leisure activities like camping and going to the beach, or […]
Backlist to the Future: Speaking Out: Women, War and the Global Economy
By Ooligan Press
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 Out: Women, War and the Global Economy, which includes classroom exercises, and a DVD copy of Diamonds, Guns, and Rice, a documentary containing rare footage […]
Roosevelt High School Students Present Anthology at Powell’s
By Ooligan PressIt 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 Hawthorne, July 11. This anthology of writing on the people, places and lifestyles of Portland is the first book produced by Unique Ink, the publishing […]
Unique Ink: Roosevelt High School’s Student-Run Publishing Program
By Ooligan Pressby 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 program is a symbiosis between Ooligan students and groups of students from RHS, in which we help them create, design, edit, publish, and market […]
Magic Wands, Sonic Screwdrivers and Nerdfighteria: Or My Weekend at LeakyCon 2013
By Jessica MillerI’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 bad life. In fact, I would hazard a guess and say it’s a happy one (but I’m not dead yet, so we’ll have wait awhile […]
The Battle for a Digital Pricing Model that Works Part 4: The Return of the Jedi!
By Ooligan Press
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 $4.00 book.” Has Mr. Coker lost his mind, or could this really be the future of ebook pricing? He goes on to elaborate, “Most books […]