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Acquisitions Outreach in the World of COVID

By Kelly Zatlin @somnikitty

March 21, 2022 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Acquisitions Outreach in the World of COVID

If we don’t have anything in our slush pile to share with the press, then our team misses out on the chance to review a raw manuscript. So what has the acquisitions process looked like for Ooligan during the pandemic?

Filed Under: Acquisitions Tagged With: Acquisitions, coronavirus, Covid, outreach, slush pile

What Do You Know About Award-Winning Editor Sheila E. Gilbert?

By Luis Ramos

July 21, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

What Do You Know About Award-Winning Editor Sheila E. Gilbert?

Sheila E. Gilbert is just one example of how successful editors do things in the world of publishing. It is a treat to get into the mind of an award-winning editor, since most editors are very private and it’s difficult to find information on them. But they are the wizards who bring the best books to the market.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: accolades, acquisition, agents, award-winning, editor, edward willet, Hugo Award, interview, joshua pantalleresco, manuscripts, penguin group, pitching, Publishing industry, publishing press, Query letter, sheila gilbert, slush pile, unsolicited

Dr. Submission or: How I Learned to Stop Wasting Time and Postage and Read the Guidelines

By Brian Tibbetts

March 17, 2014 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Dr. Submission or: How I Learned to Stop Wasting Time and Postage and Read the Guidelines

One of the biggest challenges we face at Ooligan Press is sorting through the hundreds of queries, book proposals, and manuscripts that we receive each term. While the overwhelming majority of what we receive through our online submission manager makes for intriguing reading, 95 percent of what we receive is not in keeping with our […]

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: Acquisitions, Getting Your Query Accepted, slush pile, Submission Guidelines, The Business of Writing

Seal Press

By Ooligan Press

February 11, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

by Mary Breaden In 1976, the same year that Seal Press was founded as an independent publisher of books “by women, for women,” the first class of women was inducted into the United States Naval Academy, Barbara Walters was named the first woman co-anchor of the nightly news, and a record number of women authors […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: Barbara Walters, by women for women, developmental edit, independent publisher, Krista Lyons, OpEd Project, PDXX Collective, Seal Press, She Writes, slush pile, U.S. Naval Academy, UC-Santa Barbara

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