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Getting Published: The Magic of the First Page

By Sarah Moffatt

May 26, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Getting Published: The Magic of the First Page

According to Michael Shymanski, one of Ooligan’s Acquisitions Managers, think of your first page as the reader’s initial impression, much like “meeting your friend’s spouse for the first time.” First impressions can be insignificant, even disastrous, or they can be absolute magic. If the magic is there, an editor will know it immediately.

Filed Under: Acquisitions, Editing Tagged With: acceptance, Acquisitions, author, book, editorial, excitement, impactful, magic, manuscript, novel, originality, published, publishing, readership, Reading, rejection, submission, voice, writing

Indecision at Ooligan

By Tiffany Watson

October 14, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Indecision at Ooligan

In publishing, we have the privilege to breathe life into a book many times over through editing, design, and marketing. We get to guide a manuscript through many transformations and make many choices that affect its future. We decide how the edits will shape the story, how the design will frame it, and how the readers will see it in stores. At the end of all this, a book exists in the world that might not have otherwise.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: acceptance, acquisition, choice, choose, decision, future of Ooligan, indecision, nonfiction, OPD, project development, rejection, responsibility

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