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How to Edit Your Own Short Story

By Claire Meyer

December 6, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

How to Edit Your Own Short Story

Finding an editor can prove difficult and expensive, but if you go about it with tact and strategy, editing your short story yourself might yield good results. Though editing can be exhausting, there are a few strategies I find helpful when I write creatively.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: clarify, edit, Editing, editor, guide, how-to, publishing, reread, revise, revision, short story, tips, write, writers, writing

Battle for Books: Texts and Tariff Exemptions

By Hannah Boettcher

December 4, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Battle for Books: Texts and Tariff Exemptions

The written word only matters insofar as it is made available and accessible—and in this case, insofar as it can be taxed. With the Trump administration dealing with the aftermath of a trade war with China, many consumers and publication producers are licking their wounds. In an unprecedented tariff implementation, almost every form of publication is being exposed to a 10 percent tax increase that started September 1, 2019. A second wave of taxes will come in December 2019.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: bargain, Bible, books, businesses, children's, China, exemption, import, independent, picture, policy, president, production, Publications, publishers, publishing, religion, tariffs, taxes, textbooks, texts, trump

How Volunteer Organizations Are Creating Diversity in Publishing

By Kimberley Scofield @kmscofie

November 25, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

How Volunteer Organizations Are Creating Diversity in Publishing

Diversity in publishing has been widely discussed in recent years due to a lack of diversity among publishing professionals as well as among the stories being published. This problem has been the subject of various panels for a number of years, and the question of whether diversity is simply “trendy” has been raised in the publishing industry just as it has elsewhere. But two organizations are working to make sure that the push for diverse books is not just a trend, and so far they’ve been successful.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: diverse books, diversity, people of color, POC, publishing, town hall, volunteer, we need diverse books

Divide and Conquer: Management at Ooligan Press

By Bayley McComb @tweetsthings

November 20, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Divide and Conquer: Management at Ooligan Press

The entirely student-run Ooligan Press is divided into several tiers of management, including team members, project managers, and department leads, all of whom are overseen by Portland State University faculty.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: Indie Publishing, management, master's in book publishing, Ooligan, publishing, working press

Font Matchmaking

By Denise Morales Soto @dmoralessoto

November 15, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Font Matchmaking

It isn’t easy to find fonts that go together and that suit your book, and there are some challenges and rules to keep in mind. But as difficult as this process may be, it is also a lot of fun and a great opportunity to let your creativity shine.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: book design, Design, fonts, interior, layout, Ooligan, publishing, type, typefaces

Why Do Adults Read Young Adult Books?

By Monica Hay @monicathewriter

November 6, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Why Do Adults Read Young Adult Books?

Adult books are about learning to live in the world we have. YA books are about changing the world.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: adult books, adults reading YA, audience, BookTube, Christine Riccio, genre, Publisher's Weekly, publishing, teen, YA, ya books, young adult, young adult literature

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