Memories Flow In Our Veins—the project formerly known around Ooligan Press as “The CALYX Anthology”—has been moving, shaking, and making steady progress along the path to publication during Summer 2015. We have a distinguished new title, a hot-off-the-designer’s-desk front cover, and the manuscript due date is just around the corner. In the meantime, we’ve done […]
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From Corvallis to Hollywood: Jean Hegland and Into the Forest
By Ooligan Press AlanScottHolley
Of all the big names expected to appear in Ooligan’s upcoming publication of CALYX Press’s fortieth anniversary anthology—which includes heavy hitters such as Barbara Kingsolver and Ursula K. Le Guin—there is one relatively unfamiliar name that could very well be joining the ranks of popular female authors in the near future: Jean Hegland. Though her […]
Hitting the Ground Running
By Sarah HaleThe pace of the CALYX anthology has been ramping up this term. We have big plans for our book that we hope to see finalized by the end of the school year. Up first, a title! We have been getting more of the manuscript, and we are combing through it to find that certain word/phrase/idea […]
Spring Is On The Way—And So Is Our Manuscript!
By Sarah HaleIt’s been beautiful here in Portland these past couple weeks, which has been the perfect backdrop to our work on the CALYX anthology. The anthology has been seeing a lot of development this term. For instance, we are now well into drafting author bios, creating a list of author contacts and affiliations, and finalizing the […]
Is It Too Early to Start Thinking About Covers?
By Sarah HaleThese past couple of weeks we broke up the monotony of combing through the Internet looking for author affiliations because, while those are extremely useful, I don’t want my team to be stuck at their computers for endless hours. “Useful” doesn’t translate to “fun and exciting,” and we’re all still too young in our careers […]
Getting into the Fun Stuff
By Sarah HaleThis term, the CALYX team is already making a lot of headway. The publicity and launch for this book should be pretty smooth if our marketing research continues the way it has, and while we don’t have a full manuscript yet, at the beginning of the term we received a working list of the authors […]