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The Next Page: How Kickstarter Bridged the Gap of Publishing Conferences

By Desiree Wilson @swindlesoiree

July 17, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Next Page: How Kickstarter Bridged the Gap of Publishing Conferences

Access to publishing conferences can be difficult, even when you snag an invitation to the often exclusive events, but in May 2019 Kickstarter changed the game with their two-part digital conference, The Next Page.

Filed Under: Digital Tagged With: accessibility, Amy Stolls, Brooklyn, decentralization, digital conference, digital solutions, DongWon Song, finance, Fireside Fiction, Joe Biel, Kickstarter, knowledge, Margot Atwell, Microcosm Press, Networking, Pablo Defendini, publishing, Publishing Conference, remote, representation

Black Characters Matter: Social Justice in YA

By Ruth Robertson @RRobertson1991

January 4, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Black Characters Matter: Social Justice in YA

Young Adult literature, or YA, has been a genre dominated by white authors and characters, but this is changing. In the past couple years, two debut novels by African-American women have taken the YA world and bestseller lists by storm: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (2017) and The Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (2018). If you haven’t read them yet, you should.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: Angie Thomas, Black Girl Magic, Black Lives Matter, representation, social justice, The Children of Blood and Bone, The Hate U Give, Tomi Adeyemi, YA, YA trends, young adult

The Writer and the Myth of Solitude

By Peter Sanchez

April 16, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Writer and the Myth of Solitude

The editor must help the author express their art as truly as they can while balancing the vision of the publisher, and by extension bring the truth of the community back in the form of a published work. And, like any intimate relationship, it is not always easy, nor quick and painless.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: Acquisitions, community, developmental, Editing, Interpersonal, Myth, Relationship, representation, Solitude, writers

Why You Should Absolutely Judge a Book by Its Cover

By Hanna Ziegler

April 11, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Why You Should Absolutely Judge a Book by Its Cover

The saying is “don’t judge a book by its cover,” but the truth is, we all do—and we’re actually supposed to. Someone designed that cover with specific intentions for you, the reader, to pull the book off the shelf and take a closer look. If I think about it too hard, I realize how shallow and materialistic I am as a reader and how hard a cover has to work just to get me to pick it up. My recent interest in cover design has to do with a challenge I’m undertaking this year to read at least thirty books with a main character who would be classified as a minority in America. Finding books that show this diversity on the cover is actually a lot more difficult than I expected.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: book covers, Design, diversity, Everything Everything, Fans of the Impossible Life, Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit, Girl Stolen, Ink and Ashes, Liar, Not If I See You First, ooligan press, positive representation, representation, The Education of Margot Sanchez, The Hate U Give, The Walls Around Us, Want, When Dimple Met Rishi, YA

Choosing to Read Diverse Books

By Joanna Szabo @Joanna_Shwaba

November 27, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Choosing to Read Diverse Books

For most of my life, the majority of books I’ve read have been written by white men, from the picture books I grew up with to most of my favorite childhood series, and then almost everything I read as an English student throughout high school and college. It’s not that books by white men are all the same, or that they’re all bad. It’s that these books share a similar perspective. I had become so used to the white male viewpoint that I subconsciously recognized it as the standard.

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: Angie Thomas, authors of color, book recs, choosing diverse books, diverse books, diverse reads, diversity, LGBTQ, Reading, reading in the age of Trump, representation, The Hate U Give, THUG, we need diverse books, WNDB, writers of color

Representation in Nonfiction

By Kento Ikeda @kentoikeda

January 27, 2017 by Digital Content Leave a Comment

Representation in Nonfiction

There is no clear benchmark one can use to determine what is appropriate representation in global-minded nonfiction.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: demographics, diversity, non-fiction, representation

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