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Five Newly Released YA Recommendations for Valentine’s Day

By Claire Plaster @namelessclaire

February 12, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Five Newly Released YA Recommendations for Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and just because things may look a little different this year doesn’t mean the books will be any less swoon-worthy! Here are five up-and-coming YA books coming out in February to get everyone in the mood for the day celebrating all kinds of love.

Filed Under: Marketing Tagged With: book recommendations, books, contemporary, cute, diversity, LGBTQ, POC, representation, romance, teen romance, teens, Valentine's Day, YA, young adult

Introducing Laurel Everywhere

By Tia Sprague

March 2, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Ooligan Press is excited to announce our newest YA novel, LAUREL EVERYWHERE by debut author Erin Moynihan, set to launch November 10, 2020. LAUREL EVERYWHERE is an intimate depiction of the grief and mental-health issues often experienced with the loss of loved ones. The novel highlights complicated family relationships in the wake of tragedy: Laurel grapples with her own feelings of loss while her father spirals into a deeper depression, requiring a long stay in a hospital that specializes in grief. Although much of the book focuses on grief, loss, and mental health, LAUREL EVERYWHERE is also a story of survival, love, hope, and friendship. Follow Laurel on a journey of self-discovery, self-healing, and growth as she learns that sometimes it’s okay to not be okay.

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: 'Friends, accident, anger, attempted suicide, best friends, car accident, car crash, car wreck, dead, death, depression, died, drunk driver, drunk driving, drunk driving accident, family, family support, fifteen-year-old, Friendship, ghost, ghosts, grief, grieving, grieving process, healing, healing process, hope, introducing, Introduction, Laurel Everywhere, LGBTQ, loss, love, parents, queer, siblings, sorrow, suicide, Support, surviving, teenage, therapy, tragedy

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

Normalizing Queerness: Tips on Inclusive Editing for the LGBTQ Community

By Meagan Nolan

November 28, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Normalizing Queerness: Tips on Inclusive Editing for the LGBTQ Community

The role of an editor is to ensure throughout each stage of the editing process that the writer communicates their view of the world to the reader in the best way possible. With such a responsibility, editors should look at the ways in which the language and manuscripts they edit affect the world around them. Editors should look at how the representation of life and people on the page shape and change society’s understanding of real people in the real world. To gain further distance on the path towards impartial inclusion, here are some tips for inclusive and mindful editing in regards to the LGBTQ community.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: abnormal, asexual, bisexual, communication, community, Editing, editor, female, gay, gender identity, gender-neutral, historical homophobia, impartial, inclusion, intersexual, Language, lesbian, LGBTQ, life, male, manuscript, mindful editing, minority, misrepresentation, misunderstanding, normal, normalize, page, pansexual, people, privilege, queer, questioning, reader, real-world, Relationship, sexual prejudice, society, their, them, they, transgender, world

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

Backlist gets front seat for summer reading

By Pam Wells @wellsworld

July 26, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Backlist gets front seat for summer reading

Here’s a quick reading guide—and thank heavens it’s a non-election year—for #summerreading in 2017.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: back to school, backlist, books, fiction, July 4th, Labor Day, LGBTQ, Marketing, Memorial Day, nonfiction, Oregon history, poetry, pride, school, Short Stories, summer reading, travel, young adult

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