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Reproductive Pairing: Books, Podcasts, and Taboos

By Elle Klock @elleklock

December 18, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Reproductive Pairing: Books, Podcasts, and Taboos

It’s helpful to have a fictional way to explore the potential fallout that faces us when our government makes decisions about our bodies. These novels offer context and shine a beam of empathy into a situation that has become highly politicized. Ravenous for more information, I took a dive into digital conversations surrounding health, reproductive rights, and motherhood.

Filed Under: Digital Tagged With: abortion, Alabama, birth control, dystopia, healthcare, Illinois, listening, literature, Missouri, motherhoood, myths, Oregon, Orwellian, podcasts, Red Clocks, reproductive, Roe v. Wade, sci-fi, science fiction, sexual health, speculative fiction, taboo, underground, women's rights

Going All the Way: The Challenges of Editing Sex Scenes

By Olivia Rollins

September 30, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Going All the Way: The Challenges of Editing Sex Scenes

The Bad Sex in Fiction Award teaches us several things: first, many novels contain profoundly cringeworthy sex scenes; second, even great writers often flounder when they try to write about sex; and finally, there are plenty of editors who (perhaps begrudgingly, or perhaps because they too are at a loss for how to approach this subject) are letting these giggle-inducing scenes sneak through to publication. This state of affairs might lead us to wonder, Why is it so hard to write about sex? And, more importantly, what can editors do to help?

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: award, challenges, Editing, erotic, fiction, genre, Literary Review, literature, publishing, romance, sensitivity, sex, sex scenes, sexuality, tips

To Be or Not to Be: An Interactive Approach to Classic Literature

By Ari Mathae @Ari_Mathae

June 5, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

To Be or Not to Be: An Interactive Approach to Classic Literature

Gamebooks are about being able to play around in a familiar world, make mistakes, and try again. Interactive books for adults do just that, but this time, the majority of choose-your-path books are focusing on classic and well-known stories, rather than the nostalgic stereotypes found in the kids’ series. Interactive books use the stories of classics––Austen, Shakespeare, historical romance––to give adult readers a chance to toy with the literary worlds they have known and loved.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: adult fiction, Bandersnatch, Choose your own, classic reads, Covers, gamebooks, interactive, interactive narratives, Jane Austen, literature, Marketing, satire, Shakespeare

Poetic Communication: What it means for writers and editors

By Tiffany Watson

April 12, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Poetic Communication: What it means for writers and editors

Creating an original voice, going against the grain of convention, has little to do with the spark we are often told about. Rather, it is a conscious effort to know the rules and when to innovate.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: Convention, Editing, innovation, Language, literature, Mark Turner, philosophy, Roland Posner, Spark, Stephen King, writing

Politics in Publishing

By Grace Evans

April 5, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Politics in Publishing

In recent months, it has become difficult to point to a sector of American society that isn’t touched by political turmoil. Our recent presidential election and the mirroring Brexit vote across the pond mark deep and shifting partisan divides that show themselves in business, sports, educational communities, and the arts. Rather than being distinct from these communities and their conflicts, the publishing industry—because of its very nature—must both contain them and be contained by them.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: books, election, literature, memoirs, milo yiannopoulos, obama, politics, publishing

Interview with Author Kali VanBaale

By Corinne Gould

June 13, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Interview with Author Kali VanBaale

Kali VanBaale’s debut novel, The Space Between, earned an American Book Award (the Independent Publisher’s silver medal for general fiction) and the Fred Bonnie Memorial First Novel Award. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Numéro Cinq, The Milo Review, Northwind Literary, Poets & Writers, The Writer, and the anthologies Voices of Alzheimer’s and […]

Filed Under: Interview Tagged With: author interview, Good Divide, Jane Smiley, literature, Midwest, plot twist, Thousand Acres

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