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Subtitles: When Are They Needed?

By Kaitlyn Shehee

October 8, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Subtitles: When Are They Needed?

What is a subtitle? You might recognize them as coming after a colon or appearing in smaller text after the main title of a book. You might have also noticed that they are common in nonfiction but hardly ever used in fiction at all. Why is that?

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: Authors, memoirs, nonfiction, publishing, subtitles, Titles

It’s Pub Year: Now What?

By Sarah Loepp

April 29, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

It’s Pub Year: Now What?

What are some key elements of the final stages of book publication? I’ll take you through the main projects our team is working on at this stage, and give you a peek into the happenings at a publisher leading up to a book’s release.

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: Breaking Cadence, Design, Editing, Marketing, memoirs, outreach, Social Media, Spring, start to finish

Beyond the Portrait: Memoir Book Covers

By Sarah Loepp

August 22, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Beyond the Portrait: Memoir Book Covers

When one thinks about memoir cover design, the first image that usually comes to mind is a sober portrait of the author, often in shades of black and white or otherwise having the subject posed in a thoughtful, cerebral way. Certainly, this is a representative picture of the memoir standard, and in many cases, the most profitable design route for publishers to pursue. But when might other options work better?

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: coverdesign, Design, memoirs, Ooligan

Designing Book Covers with Genres in Mind

By Emma Hovley

July 9, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Designing Book Covers with Genres in Mind

What happens when the book you’ve written doesn’t neatly fit into one specific genre? For instance, what if instead of a book that falls unquestionably into the mystery thriller category, you’ve written one that beautifully straddles the line between personal memoir and war memoir? While this question can certainly influence any number of factors in the book publishing process, it comes into a particularly important light when a publisher begins to develop the marketing plan for a new book.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: book design, Breaking Cadence, cover design, Design, genre, memoirs, Ooligan, typography

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

Goldie-Oldies: Nostalgia in Literature and Radio

By Kristin Choruby

August 19, 2015 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Goldie-Oldies: Nostalgia in Literature and Radio

In Allison Green’s unconventional travel memoir, The Ghosts Who Travel with Me, nostalgia is a running theme. Green devotes just as much time to journeying down memory lane as she does to retracing the famous trout-fishing trip of sixties counterculture writer Richard Brautigan. The Ghosts Who Travel with Me lovingly describes Green’s golden memories of […]

Filed Under: Ooligan at large Tagged With: Allison Green, KPFA, KPTZ 91.9 FM, memoirs, nostalgia, podcasts, radio, retro, Richard Brautigan, The Ghosts Who Travel With Me, the sixties, Trout Fishing in America

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