• Skip to content
  • Skip to footer

Ooligan Press

Ooligan is an award-winning not-for-profit general trade press that publishes books honoring the cultural and natural diversity of the Pacific Northwest.

Main navigation

  • About
    • Submission Guidelines
    • The Graduate Program
    • Awards
    • Donate to Ooligan Press
    • Ordering Information
    • Green Press Initiative/OpenBook
  • Ooligan Blog
    • Start to Finish
  • Books
    • Frontlist
    • Fiction
    • Nonfiction
    • Poetry
    • Young Adult
    • Education and Curriculum
  • Events
    • Write to Publish
    • Transmit Culture

bestsellers

Dive Into Strange New Worlds: Bulk Up Your 2021 Fantasy Reading List

By Rachel Adams

October 1, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Dive Into Strange New Worlds: Bulk Up Your 2021 Fantasy Reading List

Each year brings with it a brand new crop of books, and, if you’re anything like me, you love to find new things to read. But where do you start? Whatever you’re searching for, look no further. I’m excited to recommend your next possible fantasy read.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: adult fiction, bestsellers, booklist, fantasy, fiction, independent publishers, new releases, publishing 2021, Recommendations, Small Presses, YA

There’s No Accounting for Taste

By Leigh Thomas leighkaisen

December 16, 2015 by OoliganPress 1 Comment

There’s No Accounting for Taste

Recently in my leisure reading, I noticed I had coincidentally chosen a handful of books that all had to do with mermaids or the circus. These weren’t back-to-back reads; rather they were each chosen independently over the course of a year or so, but there they were: mermaids, a randomly specific topic that had surfaced […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: bestsellers, books, fiction, subgenres, trends

Speaking in Genrealities

By Ooligan Press

February 28, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

By Drew Lazzara At least as long as I’ve been paying attention to these sorts of things (so probably much, much longer), there has been an ongoing critical dialogue about the blurring distinctions between literary and genre fiction. You should absolutely read and listen to an excellent sampling of the discussion from the likes of […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: Arhur Krystal, Arthur Krystal, bestsellers, comics, creative marketing, Fifty Shades of Grey, genre fiction, Lev Grossman, litearture, literary fiction, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, publishing, romance, science fiction, Slate.com, The Magicians, The Night Circus, Twilight

Piracy in Perspective

By Ooligan Press

January 21, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Piracy in Perspective

By Rebekah Hunt Digital piracy is the topic du jour for almost every media outlet. Want to stop people from changing the channel when your news broadcast comes on? Promo a story about digital piracy. Want to beef up hits to your news/gossip/blog site? Toss up an infographic with some digital piracy stats. Digital piracy […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: amazon, Avatar, bestsellers, books, Chris Anderson, disparity, DRM, eBooks, film, Harry Potter, Kick-Ass, piracy, TorrentFreak

A Big, Fat Knee-Jerk

By Ooligan Press

January 14, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

In November of last year, I came across a blog entry on the Huffington Post that filled me with a familiar weariness. In it, best-selling author Tucker Max (I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell; Assholes Finish First) details the process by which he was able to circumvent  the Big 6 publishers for his third […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: bestsellers, Big 6 Publishers, Huffington Post, I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell, Independent Publishing, Marketing, ooligan press, publicity, publishing, Tucker Max

Footer

Learn More

  • About Ooligan Press
  • Contact Us
  • Donate to Ooligan Press
  • The Graduate Program
  • Submission Guidelines
  • Ooligan Blog

Sign up for the Ooligan Press Mailing List

Subscribe
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Tumblr
  • Twitter

Search Ooligan

Copyright © 2017 | Ooligan Press