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Learning the ABCs of Bookstagram

By Hannah Boettcher

March 1, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Learning the ABCs of Bookstagram

I started my bookstagram page at the end of September 2020. In under half a year, I have amassed 3,400 plus followers, held conversations with some of my favorite authors, and made many bookish friends. There are many bookstagram “secrets” only accessible to those engaging with other accounts, consuming a lot of content, and running an actual bookstagram account. Thus, I have gathered my most useful tips and tricks on how to operate and brand a successful bookstagram account.

Filed Under: Manager Monday, Marketing, Social Media Tagged With: aesthetic, algorithm, analytics, Authors, blogging, blogs, books, bookstagram, data, feed, goals, how-to, independent, indie, instagram, Marketing, Online, publishers, publishing, ratings, read, readers, reviewers, Reviews, sales, Social Media, starred, virtual, writers, writing

A Marketing Tool for Indie Publishers and Authors Alike

By Hannah Boettcher

October 19, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

A Marketing Tool for Indie Publishers and Authors Alike

Goodreads allows users to keep track of books they’ve read, books they want to read, and the reading journeys of other registered users. While Goodreads is a wonderful resource for readers, it also houses a very lucrative market for indie publishers and authors. Through the Goodreads author program, Q&A groups, word of mouth, and the Goodreads recommendation engine, indie publishers and authors are able to establish a presence among the bigger five guns in the publishing world.

Filed Under: Manager Monday, Marketing, Social Media Tagged With: algorithm, analytics, Authors, blogs, books, data, goals, goodreads, independent, indie, Marketing, Online, publishers, publishing, ratings, read, readers, reviewers, Reviews, sales, Social Media, starred, virtual, writers

Designs of the Future and Beyond: 2018 Sci-Fi Book Cover Trends

By Megan Crayne Beall @megancraynepoet

April 10, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Designs of the Future and Beyond: 2018 Sci-Fi Book Cover Trends

I refuse to believe we can’t move past the paperback designs of the past with their jumble of chunky fonts, strange color palettes, and, dare I say, unappealing illustrations of aliens.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: aliens, book, book cover, book covers, book design, book recommendations, books, Design, design trends, dystopian, fantasy, fiction, futuristic, new weird, novel, read, Reading, sci-fi, science fiction, sff, space, trend, trends

Publishers’ Influence on Pop Culture

By Alexandria Davis

February 5, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Publishers’ Influence on Pop Culture

These same celebrities we watch on TV, whose lives seem to be occupied with drama, business ventures, bad grammar, fashion shows, shopping trips, and traveling across the country that you have no choice but to wonder when, if ever, do they find the time to write a 200-300 page novel?

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: author, book, books, celebrity, co-writer, ghost writers, influence, ny times, pop culture, publisher, publishing, read, Reading, reality tv, stories, writers

American Scream: Palindrome Apocalypse: A Trip and a Treat for Your Mind

By Gloria Mulvihill

September 28, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

<em>American Scream: Palindrome Apocalypse:</em> A Trip and a Treat for Your Mind

It’s rare for me to come across a fellow poetry lover these days who isn’t some flavor of English. Poetry gets a bad rap for being esoteric, obtuse, unnecessarily complicated or convoluted, or pretentious. I’m not here to say that poetry like that doesn’t exist (just as there is prose that carries these not so […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: #lovebooks, books, Bookworm, croatia, lovepoetry, lovereading, ooliganpress, poetry, poetrycollection, portlandstate, read, readmorepoetry

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