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Bookworm

Making the Incomparable Comparable: How Literary Agents Utilize Comp Titles

By Gloria Mulvihill

March 29, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Making the Incomparable Comparable: How Literary Agents Utilize Comp Titles

Realistically, most first-time authors seeking out a literary agent to pitch their book probably aren’t going to know all there is to know about their respective genre, and that is where the agent comes into play.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: books, Bookworm, comp authors, comp titles, literary agents, love books, love reading, pitching books, publishing, Publishing industry, read more books, selling books

American Scream: Palindrome Apocalypse: A Trip and a Treat for Your Mind

By Gloria Mulvihill

September 28, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

<em>American Scream: Palindrome Apocalypse:</em> A Trip and a Treat for Your Mind

It’s rare for me to come across a fellow poetry lover these days who isn’t some flavor of English. Poetry gets a bad rap for being esoteric, obtuse, unnecessarily complicated or convoluted, or pretentious. I’m not here to say that poetry like that doesn’t exist (just as there is prose that carries these not so […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: #lovebooks, books, Bookworm, croatia, lovepoetry, lovereading, ooliganpress, poetry, poetrycollection, portlandstate, read, readmorepoetry

Women Authors You Should Have on Your Reading List

By Gloria Mulvihill

August 24, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Women Authors You Should Have on Your Reading List

Ooligan Press published Memories Flow in Our Veins in April, so hopefully most of you have had a chance to pick it up and enjoy the plethora of inspirational, powerful, and at times dark and creepy (pig’s head anyone?) stories and poems. As we’re enjoying the last bit of summer, many of you might get […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: #lovebooks, Bookworm, femlit, lovereading, ooliganpress, portlandstate, summerreading, summerreadinglist, womenauthors, womenslit

Five Fresh Picks for Green Reading

By Gloria H. Mulvihill

April 22, 2016 by OoliganPress

Five Fresh Picks for Green Reading

April brings us spring and Earth Day, which I’ve always found fitting. Spring evokes freshness, bright colors, new life, and sunshine (if us Portlanders are lucky)—there is a heightened awareness of the earth. Although I am a proponent of every day being Earth Day, I think using holidays like this to draw attention to environmental […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: Bill McKibben, booklove, bookstolove, Bookworm, ecoliving, environment, green, green initiative, Jonathan Safran Foer, livethatgreenlife, Michael Pollan, ooligan press, readgreen, Rethinking Paper and Ink

Emma Watson Enchants the Feminist World with Our Shared Shelf

By Gloria Mulvihill

February 12, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Emma Watson Enchants the Feminist World with Our Shared Shelf

You’ll be hard-pressed to find something about Emma Watson not to like. She is our beloved Hermione, as well as Brown educated, UN Women’s goodwill ambassador, a feminist, an advocate for equality, and an all around beautiful human being. She started HeForShe.org, a platform that provides advocates for gender equality a place to share their […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: #celebbookclubs, #femwriters, #lovebooks, Book Club, Bookworm, Emma Watson, equality, feminist, goodreads, HeForShe, Our Shared Shelf, power of writing, writing

Allison Green’s Radio Interview on Bookworm

By Emily Goldman

November 11, 2015 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Allison Green’s Radio Interview on Bookworm

At Ooligan, we are always on the lookout for exciting opportunities to publicize a new title and reach an even wider range of readers. As a small press, not only are we more accustomed to doing publicity on a local scale, but it’s a battle to receive any national attention, given the multitude of titles […]

Filed Under: Ooligan at large Tagged With: Allison Green, Bookworm, KCRW, Michael Silverblatt, NPR, Publisher's Weekly, radio interview, Richard Brautigan, Shelf Awareness, The Ghosts Who Travel With Me

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