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Ricochet River

Sailing Over the Horizon; Landing Someplace New

By Jacoba Lawson

May 25, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Sailing Over the Horizon; Landing Someplace New

With a couple cracks of thunder, a light hail baptism, and an enthusiastic welcome from an amazing crowd, At the Waterline was launched into the world (and onto the Powell’s staff picks shelf!). If you’ve been following our journey, you already know what Team Rivers has been up to. We helped Brian edit his manuscript, we added maps and diagrams, we dreamed up a killer marketing campaign, and we planned a citywide celebration to top it all off. At the Waterline is sailing smoothly into readers’ lives, with lots of fun stops planned for the future. It’s the nature of the publishing process that eventually we have to let one book go and turn our attention to the next. But before At the Waterline slips over the horizon on its world tour, I want to take a moment to acknowledge the crew that helped make her seaworthy.

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: At the Waterline, Brian K. Friesen, Excuse me while I gush, Goodbyes, Meet the Crew, New Beginnings, Rhythm in the Rain, Ricochet River, Rivers of the PNW, Robin Cody, start to finish, Talk like a sailor, Team Rivers

Editing and Design: The Start of a Beautiful Partnership

By J. Whitney Edmunds

February 13, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Editing and Design: The Start of a Beautiful Partnership

One of my favorite aspects of being a manager of Ooligan’s editorial department is the short class we hold every Wednesday. We cover various roles that an editor plays and tasks that they may be expected to complete. During one of these classes, a fellow Ooligan student asked me about other classes they should consider taking if they want to pursue a future in editing. My answer was quick and to the point: design.

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: At the Waterline, Design, edit, Editing, proofread, Ricochet River, Seven Stitches, xml, XML markup

Mapping Literary Landscapes: Designing Diagrams for Ricochet River and At The Waterline

By Leigh Thomas @leighkaisen

February 6, 2017 by Digital Content Leave a Comment

Mapping Literary Landscapes: Designing Diagrams for Ricochet River and At The Waterline

If you’re of the bookish persuasion (and if you’re reading this blog post, the odds are probably good), you may also be of the mappish persuasion: when you pick up a book and discover it contains a map, a little piece of you erupts in excitement over this double-page spread that promises a literary quest is waiting inside.

Filed Under: Design, Manager Monday, Publishing Tagged With: At the Waterline, book production, Design, design process, diagrams, illustration, maps, Pacific Northwest, Ricochet River

Remarketing a Reprint: Ricochet River’s Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition

By Emily HagenBurger @ehagenburger

February 3, 2017 by Digital Content Leave a Comment

Remarketing a Reprint: Ricochet River’s Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition

Book marketing is a funny business. First of all, it’s impossible to predict what will sell and what won’t. You just have to put everything you can into attracting an audience and getting the word out, then hope to everything you believe in that people buy your book out of the millions that are already out there. These difficulties are only increased when the book you’re working on isn’t new but, in fact, has been published for twenty-five years.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: Marketing, Ooligan, Ricochet River, Robin Cody, storytelling, teaching, YA lit

XML Coding: Bridging the Gap Between Editing and Design

By Amylia Ryan @amylia_ryan

February 1, 2017 by Digital Content Leave a Comment

XML Coding: Bridging the Gap Between Editing and Design

What is XML, anyway? Is it some fancy new coding language I have to learn? Why do we use it? Why is it part of the editing department?

Filed Under: Editing, Publishing Tagged With: coding, Editing, Ricochet River, Robin Cody, xml

Ricochet River Cover Reveal!

By Jacoba Lawson

January 25, 2017 by Digital Content Leave a Comment

Ricochet River Cover Reveal!

The design process is always a lesson in refinement.

Filed Under: Publishing, Start to Finish Tagged With: book covers, Design, Happy Little Trees, High School, Ricochet River, Robin Cody, YA

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