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SHORT, VIGOROUS ROOTS: Developmental Stages

By Grace Hansen @thegracieve

September 20, 2021 by OoliganPress

SHORT, VIGOROUS ROOTS: Developmental Stages

The line between imagination and reality blurs in these forty poignant pieces written by first- and second-generation immigrant authors.

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: anthology, developmental edit, Editing, editing process, first-generation, flash fiction, immigrant, literary fiction, migrant, publishing process, Short Stories

Announcing THE STEP BACK by J.T. Bushnell

By Hazel Wright

September 28, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Announcing THE STEP BACK by J.T. Bushnell

Told with breathtaking imagery and imbued with compassion, THE STEP BACK examines the loneliness that sometimes accompanies the transition from adolescence to adulthood, which can take a true reckoning to overcome.

Filed Under: Acquisitions Announcement, Inside Ooligan, Manager Monday, Start to Finish Tagged With: California, coming-of-age, debut author, literary fiction, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, spring release, The Step Back

Sales Kits: Introducing a Book to Bookstores

By Michele Ford @fictionlass

November 14, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Sales Kits: Introducing a Book to Bookstores

Fall was a long, blustery term for the Three Sides Water team. It’s a traditionally busy time for publishers, as it’s one of the big acquisition seasons—but for us, it was the season of sales kits, final copyeditng, and interior design. But mostly sales kits.

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: literary fiction, Olympic Peninsula, Pacific Northwest, Peter Donahue, Three Sides Water

Three Stories, One Cover

By Michele Ford @fictionlass

August 17, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Three Stories, One Cover

Ooligan’s summer term is almost over, and for the Three Sides Water team, that means wrapping up the cover design and starting work on the book’s interior. We started work on the cover way back at the beginning of spring term, nearly five months ago, and it’s a joy to see our efforts come to fruition.

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: literary fiction, Olympic Peninsula, Pacific Northwest, Peter Donahue, Three Sides Water

Meet Ooligan’s Newest Title, Three Sides Water

By Julie Swearingen @juliedian

May 26, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Meet Ooligan’s Newest Title, <em>Three Sides Water</em>

As winter term wound down, Ooligan Press voted to acquire Peter Donahue’s manuscript Three Sides Water. Donahue, whose novel Madison House won the 2005 Langum Prize for Historical Fiction, brings the Olympic Peninsula to life in this exciting trilogy of three short novels.

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: literary fiction, Olympic Peninsula, Pacific Northwest, Peter Donahue, Three Sides Water

A Game of Genres

By Hilary Louth

January 6, 2017 by Digital Content Leave a Comment

A Game of Genres

It was my first day of a graduate level course, and I found myself staring down at the same question that I’d seen since I was old enough to read, what is your favorite book? Immediately I felt my heart sink and my palms begin to sweat. The question was no less impossible at that […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: fantasy, genre, horror, literary fiction, science fiction

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