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Reaching Unconventional Contacts

By Bailey Potter

December 21, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Reaching Unconventional Contacts

When we developed the marketing plan for this book, we included unconventional contacts that were appropriate for its themes. These included adoption associations, libraries, book clubs, and summer camps, in addition to the typical contacts that a project team collects. Our question was this: How do we reach the unconventional ones?

Filed Under: Manager Monday, Start to Finish Tagged With: camp, campaign, contact list, Design, detectives, email, Finding the Vein, frontlist, genre, Jennifer Hanlon Wilde, library, lwp, Marketing, murder, mystery, PNW, police, Portland, postcard, process, publishing, sleuth, Social Media, start to finish, thriller, unconventional, versatile

Proofreading in a Pandemic: How the Editorial Process is Carrying On in Corona

By Emma Wolf

November 2, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Proofreading in a Pandemic: How the Editorial Process is Carrying On in Corona

While many aspects of the publishing industry are still adapting to these evolving circumstances, the way editors utilize programs such as Track Changes and Google Docs has set them up to not just survive during a pandemic, but thrive.

Filed Under: Editing, Manager Monday Tagged With: book editing, book publishing, communication, covid-19, Editors, email, Google Suite, pandemic, remote, track changes, working at home, Zoom

It Ain’t Just Grammar: Skills for Successful Copyediting

By Olivia Rollins

May 18, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

It Ain’t Just Grammar: Skills for Successful Copyediting

If you’re a writer or an English major who aced every spelling and grammar quiz in school, you might think to yourself, “Hey, I’m pretty good with words. I understand punctuation, possessives, and present participles. I would make a fantastic copyeditor!” And you could very well be right. But before you dive headfirst into this profession, it’s important to know that for a good copyeditor, grammatical know-how is just the tip of the iceberg; successful copyediting requires a number of additional skills that have nothing to do with whipping out that red pen to correct a dangling modifier. This post outlines some essential copyediting skills that are completely unrelated to grammar and spelling.

Filed Under: Editing, Manager Monday Tagged With: Career, clients, communication, copy edit, Copy Editing, copy editor, copyedit, copyediting, copyeditor, edit, Editing, editor, email, grammar, Job, managing editor, Microsoft, organization, people skills, skills, soft skills, tech savvy, technology, time management, track changes, Word, work

Email Like a Professional

By Jordana Beh

March 6, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Email Like a Professional

Over the course of the year, along with learning how to market books, I’ve picked up a few tips about how to market yourself. After all, the hiring process (which we are all heading toward!) is usually just marketing your skill set to an employer’s needs. One of the keys to success in the quest for employment—whether finding a new job or retaining your current one—is undoubtedly professionalism. It’s almost like good design; it’s recognized by a few when it’s good and noticed by all when it’s not. So, I think it’s time to get down to brass tacks and talk about professionalism and email.

Emails are the bacon fat clogging my productivity levels, and I bet they are clogging yours too. Sticking to the successful formula of the Four Cs of Copyediting, I’ve come up with my own Four Cs of Emailing.

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: email, employment, inbox clutter, Marketing, professionalism

The Top Five Emails NOT to Send To Ooligan

By Frances Kane and Melina Hughes melinareads

September 26, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Top Five Emails NOT to Send To Ooligan

As the publisher’s assistants at Ooligan Press, we serve as the first point of contact between the public and the press. In this role, we manage the Ooligan email accounts, and so we answer a number of questions—some of which we wish we didn’t have to. So here are our top five emails NOT to […]

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: business practices, email, etiquette, inside ooligan, ooligan press, publishing

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