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Books with Fan Art: Including the Audience in the Design

By Rosina Miranda

October 16, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Books with Fan Art: Including the Audience in the Design

Reprinting is common in any literary genre, but a new trend has emerged in Young Adult fiction, partly thanks to the internet: the inclusion of fan-made artwork in a book’s special or collector’s edition.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: cover art, cover design, fan art, fanart, redesign, reprint, special edition

The Mystery Behind the Mystery Genre

By Bailey Potter

October 12, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Mystery Behind the Mystery Genre

Like every kind of genre fiction, we knew that the mystery genre has a large audience, which would be great for Ooligan to break into. We just needed to get there. How? Well, that’s part of the mystery.

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: camp, cover art, Design, detectives, Finding the Vein, frontlist, genre, Jennifer Hanlon Wilde, library, lwp, Marketing, murder, mystery, PNW, police, Portland, process, publishing, start to finish, thriller

Minimalist Cover Design: Wave Books Press and Their Distinct Typographic Cover Designs

By Kendra Ferguson

May 29, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Minimalist Cover Design: Wave Books Press and Their Distinct Typographic Cover Designs

A book from Wave Books can be recognized from across the room. Their distinctive cover design relies on stark, black-and-white contrast and strong typographical elements. This look has set them apart as a small press that has a clear brand recognizable simply from their covers.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: book design, cover art, cover design, Design, minimalist design, style, typography

Elements of a Good Horror Cover

By Hazel Wright

March 13, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Elements of a Good Horror Cover

I remember, at age eleven, seeing a copy of Lois Duncan’s 1976 young adult horror novel Summer of Fear featuring its original cover art at the Multnomah County Library and knowing immediately that I had to read it. And it wasn’t because I enjoyed the cover design; it was because I could barely look at it.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: cover art, cover design, Design, horror, horror book, horror cover, horror novel

When Your Friends Ask You How Books Work

By J. Whitney Edmunds

August 3, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

When Your Friends Ask You How Books Work

Uncertain what to discuss in this blog post, I decided to engage in a little crowdsourcing—hoping my friends might be able to come up with a new and interesting idea for me. However, when I asked them what they wanted to know about book publishing, I was surprised by the variety of their questions. Instead […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: Acquisitions, book publishing, co-op, cover art, Fifty Shades of Grey, Kent Watson, Ooligan, ooligan press, paid placement, publishing, young adult cover art

An Analysis of Cover Art by an Ooligan Novice

By Alyssa Hanchar

December 2, 2015 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

An Analysis of Cover Art by an Ooligan Novice

This is my first term at Ooligan Press, and like the others in the program I love books. I love to read them, and I love to analyze them inside and out. I chose to look at all the Ooligan covers—past, present, and in development. The two that caught my attention the most were The […]

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: cover art, cover design, Forgive Me If I've Told You This Before, historical lit, Karelia Stetz-Waters, ooligan press, publishing, YA lit

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