I’ve never read Harry Potter. But I have reasons. The phenomenon of Harry Potter nearly cost me my sanity. I was in high school when Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was released. I didn’t read it. By 2003, when Order of the Phoenix was about to be published, I was working at the Barnes […]
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The New Adult Revolution
By Erika Schnatz
What is New Adult? Why should you care? I hadn’t heard of New Adult until I was assigned to work on Write to Publish, a conference about the publishing process hosted annually by Ooligan Press (the next one is happening on February 15, 2014). The theme of Write to Publish this year is New Adult, […]
The New Cookbook: This Is Not Fannie Farmer!
By Zack EggemeyerThis past week in Portland, Ooligan brought the city another installment of its ongoing conversation series, Transmit Culture. The topic: Food Writing and Publishing. A food-focused panel of professionals from the publishing world gave their time to clue in the audience about current trends. The panel offered up many insights about what food writing might […]
Author Interview: Simone Elkeles
By Tiffany Shelton
Simone Elkeles, a self-proclaimed “housewife from Chicago,” recently hit the New York Times Best Seller List with the final installment of her teen romance trilogy Perfect Chemistry. She is also well known for her two other series Leaving Paradise and How to Ruin; her most recent work, Wild Cards, was released on October 1. This […]