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Three Reads to Help You Understand Natural Disasters

By Phoebe Whittington @PhoebeW16

August 11, 2021 by OoliganPress

Three Reads to Help You Understand Natural Disasters

Fire season is getting longer, hotter, harder, and closer to everyone’s doorstep. Those conditions are here to stay in the long term, so it’s more important than ever to become familiar with disasters, how they’re managed, and what we can do about them.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: advocacy, book rec, book recommendations, catastrophe, climate change, climate crisis, climate science, crisis, emergency management, environment, environmental justice, firefighter, forest fire, global warming, natural disaster, nonfiction, social justice, wildfire

Transcending “Business As Usual” in Publishing

By Shannon Gilb

November 20, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Transcending “Business As Usual” in Publishing

This is a call to action for publishers, editors, and writers alike to think boldly and critically when engaging with social justice movements, specifically, the Black Lives Matter movement.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: anti-racism, equity, mission statement, public relations, publishing, social justice, Social Media

Marketing for the Future

By PJ Zettle @PJ_Zettle

February 6, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Marketing for the Future

While it is important to respect our consumer base of the past, the consumer base of the future will no doubt be born out of the marriage between brands and social activism.

Filed Under: Marketing Tagged With: book marketing, brand, Colin Kaepernick, consumers, Marketing, NFL, Nike, politics, publishing, Publishing industry, social justice

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 Memoir Project Gets a Title: Introducing “Breaking Cadence”

By Emily HagenBurger @ehagenburger

May 11, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Memoir Project Gets a Title: Introducing “Breaking Cadence”

A book’s cover and title are the first two things that a person comes in contact with, and thus are the first clues as to what that book is about. A good title and cover both need to accurately convey the content while also making it easier for the reader to figure out the general genre and topics covered as well as make it stand out from others in its genre at the same time. That’s a tough order to fill! Here’s how the team for the upcoming Spring 2019 title is handling this part of the process.

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: autobiography, book title, conscientious objector, feminism, memoir, military, national guard, ooligan press, publishing, social justice, war on terror

Working in Untitled Territory

By Emily HagenBurger ehagenburger

February 14, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Working in Untitled Territory

While this book is in its initial phases, we have to ask ourselves many of the questions Rosa asked herself: Where does it fit in? What message does it convey? Why this book, and why now? How do we want to portray it to the world?

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: autobiography, conscientious objector, feminism, memoir, military, ooligan press, publishing, social justice, war on terror

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