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Separating Personal Preference from Productivity in the Editing Process

By Eily McIlvain

October 6, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Separating Personal Preference from Productivity in the Editing Process

Editing involves exposing harsh truths, making tough decisions, and facilitating collaboration. So how can an editor—especially a new one—make sure that their decisions, suggestions, and occasional wing-clippings are fair? The answer lies in the ability to separate what we want a story to be (which is subjective and infinite) from what the story and author needs.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: author relationship, Authors, best fit, changes, copyediting, Editing, fiction, flexibility, line editing, nonfiction, objectivity, professional, professionalism, proofreading, publishing, structural editing, Teamwork, writing

A Season of Change at Ooligan Press

By Rachel Howe

July 12, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

A Season of Change at Ooligan Press

The arrival of summer means that our second-year students, including managers, are graduating and moving on from the program, while our new incoming managers are wrapping up their training and preparing to take over their departments for the summer term of classes. It will be interesting to see how these different experiences, learning environments, and mentalities will influence the press in the future.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: changes, Covid, graduation, in-person classes, new managers, ooligan press, pandemic, remote learning, student-run press, students, Summer, training

How Audiobooks Are Changing the Publishing Industry

By Megan Jessop @megan_jessop

April 7, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

How Audiobooks Are Changing the Publishing Industry

With so many choosing to listen to books instead of reading the physical copies, it is no doubt the publishing industry has needed to change with the evolving demands of technology and fast-paced culture.

Filed Under: Digital Tagged With: audience, audiobooks, books, Business, changes, digital, publishing, readership, sales, technology

Renaming the Project

By Margaret Schimming

February 21, 2015 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Renaming the Project

As we continue to work through the developmental edits of the Mastersounds manuscript, it is now time to begin considering picking the final title for the book. The team and the author are currently hard at work developing possibilities for this name change, but we want to get a wider opinion. That said, on March […]

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: changes, jazz, Lynn Darroch, manuscript, Mastersounds, title

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