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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

Tips for Creating a Beneficial Author-Editor Relationship

By Julie Collins

June 7, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Tips for Creating a Beneficial Author-Editor Relationship

Make the effort to form relationships with people you can trust who will challenge you. The gain is well worth the effort.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: author, book development, books, communication, Editing, editor, email etiquette, email tone, kindness, ooligan press, people skills, phone calls, professionalism, publishing, publishing etiquette, relations, Relationships, word of mouth

Putting Design into Perspective: Book Design as a Rhetorical Situation

By Jenny Kimura

March 7, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Putting Design into Perspective: Book Design as a Rhetorical Situation

No matter how brilliant a piece of writing is, if it doesn’t know who the audience should be or doesn’t give enough context about its subject, the writing fails to be read, understood, and shared. It fails to communicate. The same holds true for book design.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: audience, book covers, book design, brainstorming, communication, conceptual design, context, Design, questions, rhetoric, writing

Normalizing Queerness: Tips on Inclusive Editing for the LGBTQ Community

By Meagan Nolan

November 28, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Normalizing Queerness: Tips on Inclusive Editing for the LGBTQ Community

The role of an editor is to ensure throughout each stage of the editing process that the writer communicates their view of the world to the reader in the best way possible. With such a responsibility, editors should look at the ways in which the language and manuscripts they edit affect the world around them. Editors should look at how the representation of life and people on the page shape and change society’s understanding of real people in the real world. To gain further distance on the path towards impartial inclusion, here are some tips for inclusive and mindful editing in regards to the LGBTQ community.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: abnormal, asexual, bisexual, communication, community, Editing, editor, female, gay, gender identity, gender-neutral, historical homophobia, impartial, inclusion, intersexual, Language, lesbian, LGBTQ, life, male, manuscript, mindful editing, minority, misrepresentation, misunderstanding, normal, normalize, page, pansexual, people, privilege, queer, questioning, reader, real-world, Relationship, sexual prejudice, society, their, them, they, transgender, world

Tips for Making a Successful Event

By Monica Hay @monicathewriter

August 31, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Tips for Making a Successful Event

There’s a lot that goes into making an event, whether you’re hosting a one-day event like a conference, a simple one hour event, or an entire week’s worth of activities. What makes a event successful? These are three simple tips that will help.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: books, Business, communication, conferences, event ideas, event planning, event tips, Marketing, Ooligan at large, publishing, publishing house, successful events, Willamette Writers, Write to Publish

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