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Sherlock Holmes

First-Draft Blues

By Jennifer Guiher

October 18, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

First-Draft Blues

Not all great hits in the world of publishing and storytelling start off with a bang. In fact, many well-known authors had ideas upon ideas for their stories, characters, and voices that were scrapped before their final drafts were produced—final drafts that might be surprising in comparison to the original ideas from which they developed.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: Arthur Conan Doyle, character names, classics, developmental editing, Editing, first draft, Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee, harpercollins, plotline, Sherlock Holmes, Sherrington Hope, To Kill a Mockingbird

Red Pens and Retcons: Changing Readers’ Experiences

By Julia Skillin

March 21, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Red Pens and Retcons: Changing Readers’ Experiences

There are so many things I want to talk about, and they all revolve around the question of ownership of stories and the idea of author/reader interaction. When a story has entered popular culture, how much right does the author have to do exactly what they want with the characters they created, and how much […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: American Gods, author's preferred text, Editing, fan fiction, George R. R. Martin, J.K. Rowling, Jim Butcher, Neil Gaiman, Raymond Carver, Sherlock Holmes, Star Wars, Stephen King, The Stand

Why Is the Mystery Genre So Appealing?

By Elizabeth Nunes ezepeze11

February 8, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Why Is the Mystery Genre So Appealing?

The mystery genre is extremely popular around the world. Readers have enjoyed sinking their teeth into a classic “whodunit” for centuries, and some of today’s most popular detective stories stem from the tales of Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In perusing the mystery section of your local bookstore, you are sure to have […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: Agatha Christie, books, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, mysteries, mystery genre, Nancy Drew, Reading, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hardy Boys, whodunit

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