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Collaboration

Know Better, Do Better: Editing for Authenticity in Our Spring YA Title

By Hazel Wright

December 2, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Know Better, Do Better: Editing for Authenticity in Our Spring YA Title

Our May 2020 title faces down its darker elements—including violence, bigotry, and abuse—with both unflinching realism and hope. Importantly, it portrays the struggles of two main characters who fall under the LGBTQIA+ umbrella. Because these identities do not exist as a monolith, and also because this is a book intended for a YA audience, Ooligan chose to incorporate authenticity readers (sometimes called sensitivity readers) into the editorial process.

Filed Under: Editing, Start to Finish Tagged With: A, authenticity, best practices, Collaboration, Editing, editorial, feedback, gender, Inclusive, Introduction, lgbtqia, new, postapocalyptic, queer, rewriting, S2F, sensitivity, small press, start to finish, writing, young adult

A Worthwhile Visit from the Author of Elephant Speak

By Julie Collins

November 11, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

A Worthwhile Visit from the Author of Elephant Speak

Fresh advance reader copies had their spines stretched one by one as Melissa signed first pages and gave copies away with her thanks to all the attendees, many of whom shared connections with the Asian elephants of Portland.

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: Author events, author visit, Authors, biography, book publicity, Collaboration, Elephant Speak, Networking, ooligan press, pnw publisher, project management, small press, student publishing, Teamwork

Odsburg: A Community Collaboration

By Marina Garcia

October 2, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Odsburg: A Community Collaboration

From the beginning, the goal for Odsburg was to make this book unique, successful, and as beautifully odd as the story it contained. We all had similar ideas about where this book should end up; getting there, however, was an entirely different matter.

Filed Under: Publishing, Start to Finish Tagged With: Collaboration, communication, Design, Editing, group work, Marketing, Odsburg, publishing collaboration, Small Presses, Teamwork

XML Coding: Where Digital, Editorial, and Design Collide

By Kaitlin Barnes

September 2, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

XML Coding: Where Digital, Editorial, and Design Collide

During my time at Ooligan, I have been told by multiple people that XML coding is the portion of the Ooligan workflow that they are most unfamiliar with and therefore most anxious about volunteering for. It’s not hard to see why XML seems daunting or confusing: the work is done by the editorial department, but it requires coding tags one would expect to see in the digital department, and the product is used exclusively by the design department. It’s easy to get lost in all of that. If the work requires coding, why isn’t it done in the digital department? If the product is only used by the design department, why don’t they do the work? To help clarify, here’s a crash course in XML.

Filed Under: Digital, Manager Monday Tagged With: code, coding, Collaboration, collide, collision, crash course, Design, digital, Editing, editorial, tags, xml

A Collaborative Process: Designing Books at Ooligan

By Julie Collins

August 30, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

A Collaborative Process: Designing Books at Ooligan

Ooligan Press is mostly made up of students in either their first or second year of the master’s in book publishing program at PSU. This means that every student is working on a book project team or as a department manager in addition to taking another two or three classes. And who can find the time to create cover and interior designs as we juggle up to six books in development at once? The key is collaboration. By trusting each other as managers, creators, and book lovers with valuable feedback to give, we work toward a fully designed book that best reflects the essence of the final manuscript.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: book covers, book design, Collaboration, cover design, design books, Designers, ooligan press, small press, student publishing, Teamwork, typography

Too Many Cooks? Management at Ooligan Press

By Hazel Wright

July 15, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Too Many Cooks? Management at Ooligan Press

Ooligan has several department managers who most closely correlate to positions you would find in a standard press, including a digital department lead, a design lead, a social media lead, a marketing lead, a copy chief, a managing editor, two acquisitions leads, and two publisher’s assistants. For anyone keeping track, that’s ten department managers. There are independent presses all over the country that operate with an entire staff of fewer than ten people, let alone ten managers. But the truth is, Ooligan doesn’t operate with ten managers: it operates with seventeen.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: books, Collaboration, department, groups, Independent Publishing, leadership, management, managers, oversight, process, projects, small press, structure, teams, workers

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