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Reaching Queer Readers

By Morgan Ramsey

December 23, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Reaching Queer Readers

The LGBTQ community has historically functioned outside of mainstream culture, but now it is slowly becoming more visible. This is also reflected in the publishing industry: we are slowly starting to see more queer themes and characters in books, especially in young adult fiction. However, the LGBTQ community is still an untapped audience for many large publishers and independent presses. By excluding this group from their marketing and promotion strategies, publishers lose out on a valuable and loyal audience.

Filed Under: Marketing Tagged With: book marketing, book publishing, gay publishing, LGBT, lgbtqia, Marketing, queer

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

Finding Unique Narratives in the Digital Realm

By Scott MacDonald

October 23, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Finding Unique Narratives in the Digital Realm

It would be easy to write off visual novels because of their technological medium, but anyone who can use a computer or operate an iPad—or better yet, program a VCR—can read one.

Filed Under: Digital Tagged With: 80 days, ace attorney, aksys, aksys games, blogging, Choose Your Own Adventure, cyoa, digital, escape the room, homophobia, inkle, interactive fiction, interactive novels, interactivity, LGBT, LGBT narratives, narratives, Nine Hours Nine Persons Nine Doors, Ooligan, phoenix wright, phoenix wright ace attorney, this is where I want to die, virtue's last reward, visual novels, we know the devil, zero escape, zero escape series, zero time dilemma

Digging Through the Past to Help Define the Present

By Taylor Farris tellr94

November 14, 2016 by Digital Content Leave a Comment

Digging Through the Past to Help Define the Present

Digging through the Ooligan Press backlist, eager to see the legacy of those who’ve come before me and gone on to complete their degrees, I stumbled across Untangling the Knot: Queer Voices on Marriage, Relationships & Identity and was immediately intrigued. This collection of twenty-five essays from individuals of all genders, all sexual orientations, and […]

Filed Under: Backlist to the Future, Publishing Tagged With: Carter Sickels, fabian romero, gay marriage, LGBT, LGBTQ, Ooligan, queer, review, Untangling the Knot

On the Lack of Lady Lovers

By Amanda Matteo

August 26, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

On the Lack of Lady Lovers

I am not Triinu Hoffman. I never went to church; I never had a goth phase; my parents never blithely recited poetry to me in their spare time (how quaint!). I am certainly nothing like Triinu Hoffman in the overarching sense of the word. But we do have something in common, and it’s something both […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: diversity, diversity in YA, lesbian, LGBT, LGBTQ, representation

Forgive Me Nominated for the Lambda Literary Awards

By Megan Doyle

May 29, 2015 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Forgive Me Nominated for the Lambda Literary Awards

Ooligan Press is pleased to announce that Oregon native Karelia Stetz-Waters has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for her young adult novel Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before, published October 2014. Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before is nominated in the LGBT Children’s/Young Adult category. The book tells the […]

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: award nomination, awards, books, Forgive Me, Forgive Me If I've Told You This Before, Karelia Stetz-Waters, Lambda Literary, Lambda Literary Awards, Lammys, LGBT, literary award, ooligan press, Reading, YA lit, young adult literature

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