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The Beginning of Our New YA Title

By Luis Ramos @luissoto805

November 29, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Beginning of Our New YA Title

Everyone likes Filipino food, and we are shamelessly capitalizing on that love. After all, when else will we get to work on a book with the words “egg rolls” in the title?

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: author, awards, blurbs, contacts, copyediting, cover, dance, dancing, Design, developmental editing, Editing, egg rolls, fiction, Filipino, food, Jason Tanamor, love, Marketing, production, Progress, publicity, revisions, Social Media, strategy, Tinikling, update, young adult

How To Edit A Story Without Taking It Away From The Author

By Scott Fortmann

September 29, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

How To Edit A Story Without Taking It Away From The Author

Rather than go through the sometimes tedious process of asking questions and making suggestions, we are tempted to just tell the author what to do to make the story better—or, at least, make it better to us. And that is the one thing we must not do.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: author, developmental editing, Editing, editor

How to Prepare for Fact-Checking

By Rylee Warner

August 13, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

How to Prepare for Fact-Checking

In the book publishing industry, fact-checking should happen before the book is made available to readers. This means that from the early editorial stages, editors should be working on fact-checking, but this isn’t quite an industry standard yet. As time goes on, the need for fact-checking in editing is becoming clearer and clearer. So how do you even begin?

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: author, Editing, editor, fact, fact-checking, fiction, nonfiction, Truth

The Pros and Cons of Self-Publishing

By Katherine Flitsch

July 14, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Pros and Cons of Self-Publishing

Because traditional publishing is so saturated with submissions, and is therefore tricky to break into as an emerging author, many new authors decide to self-publish their first book as a sort of stepping stone into mainstream publishing.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: author, books, hybrid publishing, mainstream publishing, manuscript, publishing, Self-Publishing, traditional publishing, vanity publishing

Getting Published: The Magic of the First Page

By Sarah Moffatt

May 26, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Getting Published: The Magic of the First Page

According to Michael Shymanski, one of Ooligan’s Acquisitions Managers, think of your first page as the reader’s initial impression, much like “meeting your friend’s spouse for the first time.” First impressions can be insignificant, even disastrous, or they can be absolute magic. If the magic is there, an editor will know it immediately.

Filed Under: Acquisitions, Editing Tagged With: acceptance, Acquisitions, author, book, editorial, excitement, impactful, magic, manuscript, novel, originality, published, publishing, readership, Reading, rejection, submission, voice, writing

Creating Branding Strategies to Stand Out from the Crowd

By Glorimar Del Rio @glorimardelrio

May 21, 2021 by OoliganPress

Creating Branding Strategies to Stand Out from the Crowd

During discussions about branding strategies with my college peers, it is common to hear about the importance of searching for the value a reader is looking to find when they are browsing through books, and then focusing on producing manuscripts that target these values. This initiative probably works well when producing and marketing most products, but how effective could this strategy be in the book market?

Filed Under: Marketing Tagged With: author, brand, branding, creative, image, marketing strategy, stand out

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