Logan Balestrino graduated from the publishing program in 2009. In her time at Ooligan Press, she was the Acquisitions Editor/Manager and worked on Brew to Bikes, Do Angels Cry?, and Dot-To-Dot, Oregon, among other titles. She now resides in New York City and works for Random House and its science fiction/fantasy imprint Del Rey Spectra […]
Brew to Bikes
Small Presses and Local Niches
By Kristin Choruby
In the world of publishing, the big houses have a reputation of attracting as large and general a readership as possible. Large publishers often exclude books that are primarily of local interest, books that recount some quirk of local history or the current trends in the region. Some writers have resorted to the difficult and […]
Meet the Team
By Margaret Schimming
As we are reaching the end of Winter 2015, I wanted to introduce the team who has been working to make this book possible. Without these people, it would be nearly impossible to accomplish anything we have done thus far, so I wanted to give them a shout out this week. One of the bigger […]
Updates
By Margaret Schimming
The copyedit for Brew to Bikes is underway! We took the most up-to-date ebook file and exported out all the XML coding so that we could work with the text only. We are also developing a tracking sheet for all of the photographs so that when we lay out the text in the new format, […]
Working on a Variety of Projects
By Margaret SchimmingAs the team awaits the fully drafted manuscript of the Mastersounds project, we have been working on a variety of smaller tasks for various Ooligan projects. We have assisted with spreading the word for Write to Publish, which is coming up on January 31st, to local universities. We have been working with the marketing department […]
Interview with Ooligan Alum Kjerstin Johnson
By Ellie Piper
Kjerstin Johnson completed Portland State University’s master’s program in writing and publishing in 2011. The same year, she took over as Editor-in-Chief of Bitch Magazine. Kjerstin was gracious enough to sit down with me on a recent afternoon to talk shop—about Ooligan, the Portland State University MFA program, and Bitch. Kjerstin Johnson: I graduated college […]