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Proposals: The Difference Between Fiction and Nonfiction

By Kimberley Scofield

April 27, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Proposals: The Difference Between Fiction and Nonfiction

Writing book proposals can seem intimidating. Writing the book was hard enough, and now you have to get other people to like it too. The number of resources for writing query letters is infinite, with published authors, agents, and publishers all weighing in on what makes a good query letter. But what about the next step—the proposal package?

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: Acquisitions, agents, book proposals, fiction, nonfiction, pitches, proposal, publishing, query, Query letter, Titles

By Word or By Bird: Acquisitions through Twitter

By Alyssa Schaffer @alyssalschaffer & Joanna Szabo @Joanna_Shwaba

June 4, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

By Word or By Bird: Acquisitions through Twitter

As we are both primarily internet-dwelling creatures, the natural progression was to explore Twitter. But seriously, from the time we spent on Twitter, we noticed a large community of agents, editors, authors, and more using the Twitter community to broaden their reach and visibility. The community of writers and publishing professionals on Twitter is vast, but there are a few aspects of the engagement that we thought could help us spark new connections: manuscript wish lists, Twitter pitch events, and personal branding (find us @alyssalschaffer and @joanna_shwaba).

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: Acquisitions, Authors, community, Manuscript Wish List, MSWL, Oregon Trail, outreach, pitch contests, pitches, pitching, queries, Social Media, submissions, submitting to Ooligan, twitter, writing advice

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

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

Change is Good: Behind the Scenes in the Acquisitions Department

By Vi La Bianca and Maeko Bradshaw Vi_LaBianca

November 14, 2016 by Digital Content Leave a Comment

Change is Good: Behind the Scenes in the Acquisitions Department

This past summer, we managed to find our footing as the new department leads for acquisitions at Ooligan Press. We are now in our fifth week of the fall term, and the tasks at hand are substantially increasing. While some aspects of our job are fairly routine in procedure, there are some projects happening in […]

Filed Under: Manager Monday, Publishing Tagged With: Acquisitions, exciting, Manager Monday, new projects, new students, ooligan press, pitches, Submission Guidelines

Write to Publish is Coming!

By Brandon Sanford

January 19, 2015 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Write to Publish is Coming!

Write to Publish is happening on January 31, 2015—the end of this month. That means we have about three weeks left to prepare. Yikes! Honestly, though, these last three weeks are not as stressful as I imagined they would be. We’ve spent the last year preparing for this conference (almost 365 days for less than […]

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: conference, Ooligan, pitches, publishers, tickets, workshops, Write to Publish

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