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Introducing Ooligan’s Newest Department: Rights

By Rosina Miranda and Frances Fragela Rivera

December 20, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Introducing Ooligan’s Newest Department: Rights

Ooligan boasts a unique, broad range of quality titles that could all find loyal readers in new environments if given the chance. Just imagine Finding the Vein in bookstores in Denmark or Forgive Me if I’ve Told You This Before in Braille. These books have meaningful impacts, and the more audiences we can reach, the greater the number of people who have the chance to fall in love with these stories like we did.

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: Foreign rights, literary agent, rights, rights agent, subsidiary rights, translation

Competitive Pitching

By Amanda Fink @_cecilia_mae_

May 12, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Competitive Pitching

If you’re looking for a fun way to get your manuscript out in the world, check out #PitMad, a Twitter event put on by the organizers of Pitch Wars.

Filed Under: Acquisitions, Digital Tagged With: author, literary agent, new author, pitch mad, pitch wars, pitching, pitmad, query, querying, twitter

The Business of Bookstagram

By Jessica DeBolt

August 6, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Business of Bookstagram

It’s not just bibliophiles who are making the most of the bookstagram side of Instagram, publishers and other publishing professions have seen the potential of a few great books pictures and are now using them to promote their own brands. But are the Instragrams of publishers as artistic and effective as those of bookstagrammers, or are they doing something different?

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: books, bookstagram, Business, carly watters, Design, harpercollins, instagram, literary agent, penguin, penguinteen, photo, pictures, press, publishing, publishing house, shelfie, Social Media

Interview with DongWon Song, Literary Agent and New Adjunct Instructor

By Molly K.B. Hunt MollyKanHas

January 1, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Interview with DongWon Song, Literary Agent and New Adjunct Instructor

Literary agent DongWon Song moved to Portland from New York City almost two years ago. He works remotely as part of the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency, where he’s on the lookout for “science fiction and fantasy—especially epic fantasy or high fantasy—for both adults and teens . . . [plus] nonfiction, especially food writing, science, and […]

Filed Under: Interview Tagged With: book editing, DongWon Song, fandom, fantasy, Howard Morhaim, Leviathan Wakes, literary agent, New York publishing, Nnedi Okorafor, Orbit Books US, Portland State, science fiction, The Expanse, W2P2016, Write to Publish 2016

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