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Reading Literary Fiction Boosts Powers of Social Perception

By Katey Trnka

October 9, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Reading Literary Fiction Boosts Powers of Social Perception

This past Friday, October 4, NPR’s All Things Considered reported on research findings from a Science journal study, which concluded that reading “highbrow” literary fiction (as opposed to popular fiction or nonfiction) gave individuals greater powers of social perception. Put simply, people who read Louise Erdrich instead of Danielle Steel have a better chance of […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: Acquisitions, creative marketing, Danielle Steele, Karelia Stetz-Waters, literary fiction, Marketing, new adult, NPR, ooligan press, Reading, social skills, The Round House, The Sins of the Mother

Lessons from Wordstock 2013

By M.F. Corwin

October 8, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Lessons from Wordstock 2013

For more than a decade Wordstock has supported the local literary community by hosting workshops, author readings, and the ever-dazzling book fair, where publishers large and small (such as yours truly) can interact with readers and aspiring authors alike. As vendors at this year’s festival, we particularly enjoyed speaking with everyone who came by our […]

Filed Under: Ooligan at large Tagged With: author-readings, Big 5 Publishers, book fair, Close is Fine, Eliot Treichel, Marketing, ooligan press, Oregon Convention Center, Reading Frenzy, Ruth Tenzer Feldman, Small Publishers, The Ninth Day, Tin House, Wordstock, workshops

This October, We’re All Business

By Michael Berliner

September 24, 2013 by Ooligan Staff Leave a Comment

Greetings, readers: For all of you students and educators out there, allow me to be the first to welcome you to a new school year! We are in the process of finalizing the interior design of We Belong in History, after which we will submit the project to our Editing team for a final proofread. […]

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: books, eBooks, Marketing, Ooligan, poetry, The Oregon Council for Teachers of English, We Belong in History, William Stafford

Studying the Forms: The Physical and Digital Evolution of The Ninth Day.

By Annie Whitcomb

August 12, 2013 by Ooligan Staff Leave a Comment

Hello, everyone! I hope you all have been enjoying the delightful weather summer has afforded us Portlanders. The Ninth Day has been progressing wonderfully this term, and we hope to make even more headway on this project over the next few weeks in preparation for our autumn launch. The first bit of news is that […]

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: ARCs, Blue Thread series, books, Design, fiction, galleys, Marketing, Ooligan, proofreading, Ruth Tenzer Feldman, The Ninth Day, Wordstock

New Designs for a New Season

By Annie Whitcomb

July 1, 2013 by Ooligan Staff Leave a Comment

Happy July, everyone! The beginning of summer term marked Kate’s first week as the incoming project manager for The Ninth Day. I look forward to showing her more about the process of overseeing this book’s production and gaining a more integrated partnership with her as my fellow manager. She has been very enthusiastic in her […]

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: Blue Thread series, books, fiction, Marketing, Ooligan, project managers, publishing, Ruth Tenzer Feldman, The Ninth Day, YA

In the Works

By Kelsey Yocum

May 22, 2013 by Ooligan Staff Leave a Comment

At the moment, The Ninth Day project manager team is waiting for work to come back from the departments. Bits of the project are being worked on in almost every group: Editing finished typecoding the manuscript and will be receiving back cover copy to edit any day now; Design is working on the back cover […]

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: Blue Thread series, books, Design, Editing, fiction, interior design, Marketing, Ooligan, Ruth Tenzer Feldman, The Ninth Day, YA

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