Hello, and welcome to the glossy new Start to Finish page for the tentatively titled Conspiring to be Meri, the young adult fiction manuscript we acquired this spring by the uber-talented writer Meagan Macvie! For those unfamiliar, find her riveting work in Narrative, Fugue, and Barrelhouse, as well as on her blog. A new manuscript […]
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One Project’s End Is Another’s Beginning
By Hayley Wilson hayleyotropeThe end of any project can be bittersweet. Returning to square one of the production schedule with a new book project can be a bit of a shock—but at Ooligan Press, we don’t have to go cold turkey because our previous project is still ours, and it serves as a critical reminder of what you’re […]
Remember This Name
By Jacoba LawsonHey, everybody! Welcome to our shiny new Start to Finish page. If you’ve been following the Ooligan Start to Finish posts closely (and there’s so much awesome stuff to read, why wouldn’t you be?), you’re already familiar with this project. Just in case you’ve been busy or (better yet) are reading this post in the […]
Riding the Post-Pub Wave
By Hayley Wilson hayleyotropePerhaps you’re wondering, now that we’ve successfully launched Memories Flow in Our Veins and tracked its production from start to finish in this blog series, what does the “finish” really look like for an Ooligan Press title? The answer is complex, and it is best answered with another question: when your title is ostensibly finished, […]
Meet the Ricochet River 25th Anniversary Crew
By Jacoba LawsonWelcome back to Rivers of the Pacific Northwest! Before we head any farther downstream, I’d like to introduce myself and the rest of my crew. We’ve added some top-notch talent this term, and they deserve a spotlight. First up, Tyler Mathieson, our fearless leader through the stormy seas of Rhythm in the Rain, will graduate […]
Happy #BookBirthday! Memories Flow in Our Veins Has Arrived
By Hayley Wilson hayleyotropeLast week, amidst the flurry of the twelve thousand writers, publishers, and book lovers in attendance at the 2016 AWP Conference in Los Angeles, Memories Flow in Our Veins: Forty Years of Women’s Writing From CALYX made its long-anticipated debut. Those of us on the project team who have been, up until this point, the […]