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Conscious Book Design: How to Decrease Harmful Practices and Embrace Diversity

By Denise Morales Soto @dmoralessoto

February 10, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Conscious Book Design: How to Decrease Harmful Practices and Embrace Diversity

There is an ongoing conversation about conscious editing and how important it is to making great inclusive stories. I would be the first to tell you how crucial it is for books to be edited consciously, as it increases the accuracy and the quality of a book and helps it appeal to a wider audience—something that is very important in publishing. But that is not the only area in book production that has so much to gain from conscious practices, diversity, and different perspectives—design can also benefit from these things.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: awareness, book, book covers, Design, diverse books, diversity, diversity in publishing, graphic design, publishing, we need diverse books, WNDB

How Volunteer Organizations Are Creating Diversity in Publishing

By Kimberley Scofield @kmscofie

November 25, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

How Volunteer Organizations Are Creating Diversity in Publishing

Diversity in publishing has been widely discussed in recent years due to a lack of diversity among publishing professionals as well as among the stories being published. This problem has been the subject of various panels for a number of years, and the question of whether diversity is simply “trendy” has been raised in the publishing industry just as it has elsewhere. But two organizations are working to make sure that the push for diverse books is not just a trend, and so far they’ve been successful.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: diverse books, diversity, people of color, POC, publishing, town hall, volunteer, we need diverse books

Into the Queerosphere: Resources for Finding Your Next LGBTQ Read

By Hanna Ziegler

April 17, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Into the Queerosphere: Resources for Finding Your Next LGBTQ Read

To anyone that’s been paying attention to recent trends in young adult (YA) over the last four or five years, the line-up of books slated for 2019 is both timely and highly anticipated. With the push for diversity in literature and media still going as strong as ever (perhaps even stronger than ever), it seems that publishers have finally started to seriously answer the call. Young adult (and middle grade) lists are heavy with POC leads and the number of books about LGBTQ characters has doubled since the last few publishing seasons (and that’s just looking at books coming out—pun intended—between January and April! The list for May through June is even longer!). This is extra important when you consider that as recently as 2012, just over 1 percent of YA books had any LGBTQ content at all.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: 2019, aromantic, asexual, bisexual, book list, diverse books, diverse protagonists, diverse representation, diversity, fiction, gay, gender nonconforming, genderqueer, intersex, lesbian, LGBT, LGBTQ, lgbtq books, lgbtqia, list, notes on publishing, pansexual, polyamory, polysexual, publishing, queer, queer books, queer diversity, queer representation, tbr, transgender, YA, young adult

Choosing to Read Diverse Books

By Joanna Szabo @Joanna_Shwaba

November 27, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Choosing to Read Diverse Books

For most of my life, the majority of books I’ve read have been written by white men, from the picture books I grew up with to most of my favorite childhood series, and then almost everything I read as an English student throughout high school and college. It’s not that books by white men are all the same, or that they’re all bad. It’s that these books share a similar perspective. I had become so used to the white male viewpoint that I subconsciously recognized it as the standard.

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: Angie Thomas, authors of color, book recs, choosing diverse books, diverse books, diverse reads, diversity, LGBTQ, Reading, reading in the age of Trump, representation, The Hate U Give, THUG, we need diverse books, WNDB, writers of color

Designing a Cover

By Andrea McDonald

September 30, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Designing a Cover

During my first term in the book publishing program with Ooligan Press, I was assigned to the Seven Stitches project team. The manuscript was in the middle of a round of editing and was about to go into copyediting. There were still other tasks to do: sending out blurb requests, writing up the press release, […]

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: cover, Design, diverse books, inside ooligan, Seven Stitches

#PublishingSoWhite

By Alyssa Hanchar

July 11, 2016 by OoliganPress 1 Comment

#PublishingSoWhite

Being a student of publishing, it’s hard not to notice the glaring whiteness of the overall program. Not to discredit the program or my peers in it, but Ooligan is made up of mostly white students. Yet this isn’t a direct issue with Ooligan’s program. It is an issue with publishing in general. Publishers Weekly […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: diverse books, lack of diversity in publishing, publishing

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