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Marketing Romance Through the Ages

By Mary Williams

August 12, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Marketing Romance Through the Ages

One word: Fabio

Filed Under: Marketing Tagged With: author, bodice-rippers, books, change, decades, diversity, evolution, evolve, Fabio, growth, harlequin, history, love, Marketing, novels, Progress, publishing, Relationships, romance, romantic, technology, writers, writing, years

Nurturing Key Relationships in Publishing

By Courtney Young @courtlbunny

August 5, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Nurturing Key Relationships in Publishing

On the publishing side of business, communicative relationships can determine the success of book sales, the continuing care for an author, future partnering decisions, and much more. Nurturing the relationship that is forged between author and editor, publisher and reviewer, and so forth is important as these forces are what can help you, not just in the moment, but in the future as well.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan, Publishing Tagged With: Authors, blog, communication, development, Editors, important, nurture, publishers, Relationships

Tips for Creating a Beneficial Author-Editor Relationship

By Julie Collins

June 7, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Tips for Creating a Beneficial Author-Editor Relationship

Make the effort to form relationships with people you can trust who will challenge you. The gain is well worth the effort.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: author, book development, books, communication, Editing, editor, email etiquette, email tone, kindness, ooligan press, people skills, phone calls, professionalism, publishing, publishing etiquette, relations, Relationships, word of mouth

How Are the Most Beautiful Books in the World Created?

By Maki Takase @mtakase

July 17, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

How Are the Most Beautiful Books in the World Created?

Beep-beep-beep, tap-tap, tap-tap­­­—the typing and printing sounds echo in a small office that looks like a paper cave. A man in a medical-doctor-like white robe devotes himself to his work. He moves to a room equipped with a large industrial printing machine and checks paper came from it. Then he crams a pile of book samples in a suitcase and leaves the office for a trip to New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and Qatar to meet his clients.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: high quality, Relationships, Steidl

Till Death Do Us Part

By Jordana Beh

June 3, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Till Death Do Us Part

I got married one week before I started Ooligan’s graduate program. Needless to say, the reveling in my bridal bliss was cut short when I started to juggle work and school and a new—gasp!—husband. A couple weeks ago we celebrated our first six months, and I realized that I have made these past six months […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: graduate school, marriage, Ooligan, Relationships, work life balance

Making It Personal: Ooligan Press and Our Authors

By Ryan Kauffman

January 15, 2014 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Making It Personal: Ooligan Press and Our Authors

In my time working at Ooligan Press, I have quickly learned that publishing is, first and foremost, a business. For all of the high-minded idealism that so many folks bring to books (whether reading, writing, or publishing them), it’s still a reality that you have to sell books to keep publishing them. There’s something else […]

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: Karelia Stetz-Waters, Marketing, Relationships

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