Friday marked the official pub date for Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before, and we couldn’t be more excited to see where the book goes from here. Even before the thirty-first, Amazon was shipping out pre-orders, and we’ve already started seeing reader reviews and ratings roll in—some of them from as far away […]
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Great News for Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before
By Jessica Miller
With November just around the corner, we’re hard at work on the final stages of marketing for Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before. Karelia Stetz-Waters’s Triinu Hoffman, like so many other LGBTQ teens in public schools, is the subject of bullying—both from fellow students and from faculty. Triinu hides who she really is […]
Busy Times.
By Stephanie Podmore
It’s safe to say things have been pretty busy in the Forgive Me world. We closed out the summer with some big news and exciting plans. Team member Ellie’s hard work, personalizing letters and digging for blurbers, paid off with three amazing, heartfelt quotes for our cover: Young-adult author Ruth Tenzer Feldman said the story […]
Inside Ooligan: Author Advertisement
By Lydia MorlanEveryone has some sort of idea about what goes into producing a published book. With great excitement, I will explain one aspect of the “how” with respect to a current working Ooligan title called Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before, coming out this fall. Here, you’ll learn why a book’s author is becoming […]
Karelia at The Golden Crown Literary Conference
By Caitlin Waite
This post is the story of my day at the Golden Crown Literary Society’s conference in Jantzen Beach, where I met several new people, picked up a new book, and got to listen to Karelia Stetz-Waters speak as part of a panel. I arrived at the Red Lion Hotel about fifteen minutes early to hear […]
Making It Personal: Ooligan Press and Our Authors
By Ryan Kauffman
In my time working at Ooligan Press, I have quickly learned that publishing is, first and foremost, a business. For all of the high-minded idealism that so many folks bring to books (whether reading, writing, or publishing them), it’s still a reality that you have to sell books to keep publishing them. There’s something else […]