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WHERE WE CALL HOME: Title Formation and Cover Design

By Rylee Warner

January 10, 2022 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

WHERE WE CALL HOME: Title Formation and Cover Design

Once classes started in September, we wasted no time getting the ball rolling on our newest title, WHERE WE CALL HOME: ESSAYS FROM THE LANDS, SEAS, AND SKIES OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST by Josephine Woolington. We kicked off the term by finalizing the title and are rolling ahead with the cover design and copyedits.

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: cover, design brief, essays, Pacific Northwest, process, title generation

Reaching Unconventional Contacts

By Bailey Potter

December 21, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Reaching Unconventional Contacts

When we developed the marketing plan for this book, we included unconventional contacts that were appropriate for its themes. These included adoption associations, libraries, book clubs, and summer camps, in addition to the typical contacts that a project team collects. Our question was this: How do we reach the unconventional ones?

Filed Under: Manager Monday, Start to Finish Tagged With: camp, campaign, contact list, Design, detectives, email, Finding the Vein, frontlist, genre, Jennifer Hanlon Wilde, library, lwp, Marketing, murder, mystery, PNW, police, Portland, postcard, process, publishing, sleuth, Social Media, start to finish, thriller, unconventional, versatile

The Mystery Behind the Mystery Genre

By Bailey Potter

October 12, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Mystery Behind the Mystery Genre

Like every kind of genre fiction, we knew that the mystery genre has a large audience, which would be great for Ooligan to break into. We just needed to get there. How? Well, that’s part of the mystery.

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: camp, cover art, Design, detectives, Finding the Vein, frontlist, genre, Jennifer Hanlon Wilde, library, lwp, Marketing, murder, mystery, PNW, police, Portland, process, publishing, start to finish, thriller

Too Many Cooks? Management at Ooligan Press

By Hazel Wright

July 15, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Too Many Cooks? Management at Ooligan Press

Ooligan has several department managers who most closely correlate to positions you would find in a standard press, including a digital department lead, a design lead, a social media lead, a marketing lead, a copy chief, a managing editor, two acquisitions leads, and two publisher’s assistants. For anyone keeping track, that’s ten department managers. There are independent presses all over the country that operate with an entire staff of fewer than ten people, let alone ten managers. But the truth is, Ooligan doesn’t operate with ten managers: it operates with seventeen.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: books, Collaboration, department, groups, Independent Publishing, leadership, management, managers, oversight, process, projects, small press, structure, teams, workers

Taking the Plunge: Assembling an Academic and Professional Portfolio

By Miranda Rabuck

December 6, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

In the graduate program in book publishing at Portland State University, our graduation requirements are slightly different than those of other master’s degree programs. Instead of defending a thesis, we must participate in a three-part process in order to be eligible for graduation. This includes submitting a portfolio, composing a research paper, and completing an […]

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: Editing, graduate school, ooligan press, portfolio, portland state university, process, writing

Andrea Bennett Guest Poet Post: “Pinball ≈ Prose Poetry”

By Ooligan Press

January 31, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Every Thursday, Ooligan Press invites a poet whose work is included in Alive at the Center, our forthcoming anthology of poetry from Pacific Northwest writers, to blog for us. This week, we are pleased to feature Andrea Bennett, a poet from Vancouver, B.C. Please enjoy her post! Pinball ≈ Prose Poetry A couple of my favourite poetry books—Marilyn Hacker’s Love, Death […]

Filed Under: Guest Blogger Tagged With: Alive at the Center, Alive at the Center: Featured Poet, Andrea Bennett, creativity, Indy 500, Marilyn Hacker, Matrix Liptop Awards, microfiction, pinball, poetry, PRISM international, process, Ted Berrigan, The Sonnets, This Magazine, Toy Story

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