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Community Outreach to Find Hidden Gems

By Jennifer Ladwig and Michael Shymanski

January 25, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Community Outreach to Find Hidden Gems

Ooligan Press receives many unsolicited submissions through our Submittable from authors all over the world looking to get their books published. Despite the traffic our Submittable receives, there are times where the works we have received do not provide the press with the manuscripts we need. This is where community outreach comes into play.

Filed Under: Acquisitions Tagged With: Acquisitions, Authors, books, community, community outreach, pitch, pitching, publishing, submissions

#PitMad: Your Quick Ticket to Pub

By Michael Shymanski

November 23, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

#PitMad: Your Quick Ticket to Pub

For many new writers, the question is how to break in, get an agent, and get published. Authors can go many months—which can compound to years—without hearing about their manuscripts. How can a writer get noticed and noticed fast? How do you break in without connections? Like with all contemporary remedies, the internet has a hand in getting new authors noticed, and #PitMad is the quarterly Twitter event to get your manuscript picked up and published.

Filed Under: Acquisitions, Social Media Tagged With: hashtag, manuscript, pitch, proposal, query, Social Media, twitter

Easy Listening: The Importance and Challenges of Audiobook Proofreading for Misophonia

By Andre Cole

July 29, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Easy Listening: The Importance and Challenges of Audiobook Proofreading for Misophonia

Misophonia is a condition that affects only about 15 percent of the population, yet understanding the condition and avoiding its triggers has benefits that extend far beyond that narrow demographic.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: audio, audio processing, audiobook, chewing, copyeditors, curb-cut effect, duration, Editing, Misophonia, pitch, pops, proofreading, publishers, sensitivity, sound, tone, triggers, voice, volume modulation, whispering, whistling

Marketing One Book with Multiple Stories

By Emily Frantz @Youngestelf

April 23, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Marketing One Book with Multiple Stories

I read Edgar Allan Poe in October. Why? For his scary stories. I know what I’m getting from any of Poe’s stories before I read them. Book publishers signal this to me in many ways.

Filed Under: Marketing Tagged With: books, Edgar Allan Poe, fiction, Marketing, novellas, Ooligan, Peter Donahue, pitch, pitches, publishing, Short Story Collections, Three Sides Water

Writing Contests, Ticket Sales, and Speakers, Oh My!

By Amylia Ryan @amylia_ryan and Hope Levy @hopealevy

February 12, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Writing Contests, Ticket Sales, and Speakers, Oh My!

Since being revamped and restructured last April, the Outreach and Project Development team has finally stabilized and secured a solid foundation for its future. We’ve got a lot of experience behind us now and plenty more on the horizon—including the much-anticipated tenth annual Write to Publish conference.

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: 2018, adventure, Authors, conference, contest, creative, fiction, journey, Ooligan, panels, pitch, poetry, publishers, publishing, raffle, speakers, tenth anniversary, tickets, Write to Publish, writers, writing

Creating Contact Lists for The Ocean in My Ears

By Erin Bass

December 6, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Creating Contact Lists for The Ocean in My Ears

Contact lists are painstakingly cultivated and relentlessly revised until, from the blood, sweat, and tears put into its conception, a list of names, emails, and resources is birthed. This process is exhausting and often seems never-ending for those working on them. Here’s how we made it and what happened after.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: books, contacts, fiction, letters, lists, Marketing, Networking, OiME, Ooligan, pitch, pitches, promoting, publishing, Reviews, The Ocean in My Ears, YA, young adult

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