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50 Hikes

Tips and Tricks for Good Interior Design

By Courtnee' Morin

October 12, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Tips and Tricks for Good Interior Design

While the interior design of a book may not always be as flashy as cover design, it is just as, if not more important. A book with a good layout and design may not always get noticed, but a book with a bad interior can ruin professionalism and even lose readers. With these tips, sticking to industry standards when necessary, but utilizing creative practice where possible, the interior design of your book can become the backbone needed for its content and cover to shine.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: 50 Hikes, blogging, book-interior, font, interior design, layout, Ooligan, tips, trim-size

Kento Ikeda: Interviewing Ooligan’s Resident Indexer

By Terence Brierly @TDonovanWrites

July 30, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Kento Ikeda: Interviewing Ooligan’s Resident Indexer

Ooligan Press considers every position a learning opportunity, and rarely contracts freelancers. Indexing might have necessitated that rare outsider if weren’t for Kento Ikeda, resident indexer, ebook designer, and rising star of our digital department. As he finished the index for our hiking book 50 Hikes in the Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests, I conducted a short survey with Kento to get his take on the duties that fell to him, and how he regards his work in the scope of Ooligan Press.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: 50 Hikes, ebook, freelancer, freelancing, Gathering Moss, indexer, indexing, interview, Mary Elizabeth Braun, Ooligan

50 Hikes Photo Contest: Win a Wearable Sleeping Bag from Poler!

By Ooligan Press

May 18, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

50 Hikes Photo Contest: Win a Wearable Sleeping Bag from Poler!

Ooligan Press is holding a photo contest to spread the word about our new book, 50 Hikes in the Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests. After hitting the trail, share your beautiful hiking photos with us for a chance to win a Napsack wearable sleeping bag from Poler. Can’t decide which hike to go on? Pick up a copy of 50 Hikes online or at a bookstore near you. See the rules below to find out how to enter.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: 50 Hikes, clatsop state forest, contest, hiking, Outdoors, Pacific Northwest, poler, tillamook state forest

Proofreading Season

By Hilary Louth

February 19, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Proofreading Season

Proofreading season is upon us at Ooligan Press. Really, that’s a bit of a misnomer—it’s not every year that all of the proofreading tasks align the way they have this winter. But align they have; we are rereleasing the ebook editions of Tony Wolk’s Abe Lincoln Trilogy just in time for Presidents’ Day, which means we have all three books that need to be proofread. We are also proofreading the ebook version of 50 Hikes (which publishes March 1!) and have just wrapped up on a proofread of Three Sides Water.

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: 50 Hikes, copyedit, editing tips, Lincoln Trilogy, ooligan press, proofread, Sleeping in My Jeans, Three Sides Water, What's New

Designing a Hiking Guidebook

By Jessica DeBolt

August 23, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Designing a Hiking Guidebook

The more hiking guidebooks I looked at, the more it became clear to me that they had a very defined look; glossy photographs of nature with a solid color band across the top or bottom with the title. With such a rigid look, how would we be able to make our Ooligan hiking guidebook look the part?

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: 50 Hikes, cover, Design, guidebook, hiking, Ooligan

Book Marketing in the Summer

By Morgan Nicholson

August 21, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Book Marketing in the Summer

We are all about spending this summer planning the trajectories of our upcoming releases in the marketing department. The Ooligan Press offices are already boiling over with summer anticipation over the November 7th release of Meagan Macvie’s The Ocean in My Ears, and we’ve laced up our hiking boots to explore the trails found in 50 Hikes in the Tillamook & Clatsop State Forests to collect promotional materials before The Sierra Club’s guidebook lands on bookshelves next March. Nevertheless, before we get to celebrate the launches of those awesome books, we are working with the teams to ensure that their marketing efforts are optimally strategized.

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: 50 Hikes, fiction, Marketing, ocean in my ears

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