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Finding Your Niche: How Discord Can Benefit Your Writing

By Rachel Adams

December 10, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Finding Your Niche: How Discord Can Benefit Your Writing

While not originally designed for writers (in fact, its founders created it to streamline communication amongst gamers), Discord has become a veritable haven for all kinds of people, including writers. With the ability to join and create public and private servers, anyone can use Discord to find their niche.

Filed Under: Digital, Editing Tagged With: beta reading, Discord, Editing, nanowrimo, organization, writing, writing community

How to Build Community with Other Editors

By Olivia Rollins

July 27, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

How to Build Community with Other Editors

Although editors are a notoriously introverted bunch, we all stand to benefit from a little social connection. What happens when you run into a truly perplexing problem—be it a difficult client or a questionable comma—and you need to turn to other editors for advice? Where can editors go to receive mentoring and swap war stories? This post outlines some of the ways in which editors can connect with each other—virtually as well as in person—in order to grow as professionals and build a sense of community.

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It Ain’t Just Grammar: Skills for Successful Copyediting

By Olivia Rollins

May 18, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

It Ain’t Just Grammar: Skills for Successful Copyediting

If you’re a writer or an English major who aced every spelling and grammar quiz in school, you might think to yourself, “Hey, I’m pretty good with words. I understand punctuation, possessives, and present participles. I would make a fantastic copyeditor!” And you could very well be right. But before you dive headfirst into this profession, it’s important to know that for a good copyeditor, grammatical know-how is just the tip of the iceberg; successful copyediting requires a number of additional skills that have nothing to do with whipping out that red pen to correct a dangling modifier. This post outlines some essential copyediting skills that are completely unrelated to grammar and spelling.

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An Inventory of Ooligan History

By Grace Evans and Elizabeth Hughes

August 14, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

An Inventory of Ooligan History

Imagining shelves of Ooligan books expanding into the future is one of the unsung joys of inventory; what might seem a menial task, unseen and unappreciated, is actually one of the threads that weaves Ooligan Press together, past, present, and future.

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: backlist, Covers, croatia, Dot-to-Dot Oregon, history, inventory, managers, Oolie, Ooligan, operations, Oregon Stories, organization, PA, press, publisher's assistant, publishing

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Being a Publisher’s Assistant

By Melina Hughes @MelinaReads and Frances Kane @KFrancesStella

May 15, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Being a Publisher’s Assistant

What is a publisher’s assistant? It’s a vague title. Does it involve going on coffee runs and picking up dry cleaning? Do we have designer coats and handbags thrown at us like Anne Hathaway in The Devil Wears Prada?

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: behind the scenes, inside ooligan, organization, publishing

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