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Marketing Romance Through the Ages

By Mary Williams

August 12, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Marketing Romance Through the Ages

One word: Fabio

Filed Under: Marketing Tagged With: author, bodice-rippers, books, change, decades, diversity, evolution, evolve, Fabio, growth, harlequin, history, love, Marketing, novels, Progress, publishing, Relationships, romance, romantic, technology, writers, writing, years

What Can Editors Learn from AMERICAN DIRT?

By Erica Wright

August 7, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

What Can Editors Learn from AMERICAN DIRT?

If it’s safe to say that we’re all aware of the need for greater, more accurate representation of marginalized voices in publishing, then how do controversies like the one around AMERICAN DIRT continue to happen?

Filed Under: Editing, Publishing Tagged With: American Dirt, authenticity, authenticity readers, biases, diversity, Editing, editorial best practices, future of publishing, Macmillan, own voices, publishing, sensitivity, sensitivity readers

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

Why You Should Absolutely Judge a Book by Its Cover

By Hanna Ziegler

April 11, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Why You Should Absolutely Judge a Book by Its Cover

The saying is “don’t judge a book by its cover,” but the truth is, we all do—and we’re actually supposed to. Someone designed that cover with specific intentions for you, the reader, to pull the book off the shelf and take a closer look. If I think about it too hard, I realize how shallow and materialistic I am as a reader and how hard a cover has to work just to get me to pick it up. My recent interest in cover design has to do with a challenge I’m undertaking this year to read at least thirty books with a main character who would be classified as a minority in America. Finding books that show this diversity on the cover is actually a lot more difficult than I expected.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: book covers, Design, diversity, Everything Everything, Fans of the Impossible Life, Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit, Girl Stolen, Ink and Ashes, Liar, Not If I See You First, ooligan press, positive representation, representation, The Education of Margot Sanchez, The Hate U Give, The Walls Around Us, Want, When Dimple Met Rishi, YA

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