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Reaching Unconventional Contacts

By Bailey Potter

December 21, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Reaching Unconventional Contacts

When we developed the marketing plan for this book, we included unconventional contacts that were appropriate for its themes. These included adoption associations, libraries, book clubs, and summer camps, in addition to the typical contacts that a project team collects. Our question was this: How do we reach the unconventional ones?

Filed Under: Manager Monday, Start to Finish Tagged With: camp, campaign, contact list, Design, detectives, email, Finding the Vein, frontlist, genre, Jennifer Hanlon Wilde, library, lwp, Marketing, murder, mystery, PNW, police, Portland, postcard, process, publishing, sleuth, Social Media, start to finish, thriller, unconventional, versatile

The Mystery Behind the Mystery Genre

By Bailey Potter

October 12, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Mystery Behind the Mystery Genre

Like every kind of genre fiction, we knew that the mystery genre has a large audience, which would be great for Ooligan to break into. We just needed to get there. How? Well, that’s part of the mystery.

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: camp, cover art, Design, detectives, Finding the Vein, frontlist, genre, Jennifer Hanlon Wilde, library, lwp, Marketing, murder, mystery, PNW, police, Portland, process, publishing, start to finish, thriller

Know Better, Do Better: Editing for Authenticity in Our Spring YA Title

By Hazel Wright

December 2, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Know Better, Do Better: Editing for Authenticity in Our Spring YA Title

Our May 2020 title faces down its darker elements—including violence, bigotry, and abuse—with both unflinching realism and hope. Importantly, it portrays the struggles of two main characters who fall under the LGBTQIA+ umbrella. Because these identities do not exist as a monolith, and also because this is a book intended for a YA audience, Ooligan chose to incorporate authenticity readers (sometimes called sensitivity readers) into the editorial process.

Filed Under: Editing, Start to Finish Tagged With: A, authenticity, best practices, Collaboration, Editing, editorial, feedback, gender, Inclusive, Introduction, lgbtqia, new, postapocalyptic, queer, rewriting, S2F, sensitivity, small press, start to finish, writing, young adult

It’s Pub Year: Now What?

By Sarah Loepp

April 29, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

It’s Pub Year: Now What?

What are some key elements of the final stages of book publication? I’ll take you through the main projects our team is working on at this stage, and give you a peek into the happenings at a publisher leading up to a book’s release.

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: Breaking Cadence, Design, Editing, Marketing, memoirs, outreach, Social Media, Spring, start to finish

Books, Beer, and Bettering a Manuscript: How Ooligan Press Brews a Bestseller

By Kelly Hogan

December 24, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Books, Beer, and Bettering a Manuscript: How Ooligan Press Brews a Bestseller

Ooligan Press, local author Jeff Alworth, and the Craft Brew Alliance have teamed up to bring you Ooligan’s next title: The Widmer Way: How Two Brothers Led Portland’s Craft Beer Revolution. The book, out March 26, explores the rise of Portland’s own beer titans: Kurt and Rob Widmer.

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: 35th anniversary, anniversary, beer, biography, Business, coming soon, craft beer, craft brew, gift book, Hefe, Hefeweizen, Local, local author, local brew, local brewpub, local business, local press, Manager Monday, new book, new title, nonfiction, Ooligan introduces, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Northwest beer, PDX local, PNW, PNW beer, Portland local, S2F, spring book, start to finish, upcoming title, Widmer, Widmer Way

Farewell, Three Sides Water: Wrapping Up a Book’s Production Cycle

By Michele Ford @fictionlass

May 8, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Farewell, Three Sides Water: Wrapping Up a Book’s Production Cycle

A book’s pub date is always a bittersweet time for us at Ooligan. On one hand, it’s a happy time: we organize a launch party, we hold the fully designed book in our hands, and we pester friends and family to buy this book we worked on!! But a release date also means we have to scale back our involvement with the book and its author, even if we’d rather continue working on it.

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: Peter Donahue, production, start to finish, Three Sides Water, wrap up

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