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Wattpad in Publishing: Where It’s Been and Where It’s Going

By Emma St. John @emmacathryyn

June 4, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Wattpad in Publishing: Where It’s Been and Where It’s Going

What once started as a public book domain soon turned into a multi-media, world-building phenomenon.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: creativewriting, digitalmedia, digitalpublishing, publishing, publishingindustry, stories, storytelling, wattpad, wattpadbooks, wattpadpremium, wattpadstudios, wattyawards, writers, writing

A Drawing is Worth a Thousand Words

By Jill Bowen

December 2, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

A Drawing is Worth a Thousand Words

The written word of a well-crafted story creates beautiful images in our imaginations. A skillfully drawn or painted piece of art can evoke emotion and wonder. However, when pictures and writing combine, they create an artform unto itself. What I’m talking about here are comics, and they are full of unlimited possibilities.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: comic art, comic book, comics, drawing, expressionism, five senses, graphic novel, graphics, lines, panels, show and tell, story, storytelling, time frames, vision

The Perks of Aural Media

By Hanna Ziegler

July 20, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Perks of Aural Media

The thing is, I love audiobooks. I love the way my imagination thrives off the words in my ears. I love that I feel like I’m back in kindergarten at story time. I love the way many narrators create voices for the characters, or have an entire cast to read the book as though it were a play. And I love all of this about podcasts too.

Filed Under: Digital Tagged With: audio, audiobooks, aural media, digital media, podcasts, roadtrip, storytelling

An Audible Nostalgia for Storytelling

By Zoe LaHaie

March 26, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

An Audible Nostalgia for Storytelling

Aside from their obvious convenience, audiobooks have established themselves as a hybrid between literary and media entertainment. Listeners are drawn in by hypnotic and dynamic narrations often delivered by well-known celebrities. Because of this focus on vocal value, publishing houses like Penguin Random House invested in their audio department to further advance audiobook quality. They even have the option to include material not present in the original print versions or let narrators go “off script.” Whether audiences know a story or not, listening to it gives them a fresh perspective.

Filed Under: Digital Tagged With: Audible, audiobooks, autobiography, biography entertainment, digital, storytelling

Remarketing a Reprint: Ricochet River’s Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition

By Emily HagenBurger @ehagenburger

February 3, 2017 by Digital Content Leave a Comment

Remarketing a Reprint: Ricochet River’s Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition

Book marketing is a funny business. First of all, it’s impossible to predict what will sell and what won’t. You just have to put everything you can into attracting an audience and getting the word out, then hope to everything you believe in that people buy your book out of the millions that are already out there. These difficulties are only increased when the book you’re working on isn’t new but, in fact, has been published for twenty-five years.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: Marketing, Ooligan, Ricochet River, Robin Cody, storytelling, teaching, YA lit

How to Create a Peculiar Transmedia World

By Pam Wells @wellsworld

December 7, 2016 by Digital Content Leave a Comment

How to Create a Peculiar Transmedia World

I caught up with Randall Jahnson recently to talk about the world of transmedia storytelling—or, as it turned out, the peculiar world of transmedia storytelling. First, a bit about Randall. He’s taught film and new media classes in Portland for several years, including one coming up at the Northwest Film Center in early 2017. A […]

Filed Under: Interview Tagged With: Henry Jenkins, Miss Peregrine, new media, Randall Jahnson, Ransom Riggs, storytelling, transmedia

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