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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

Different Places, Different Faces: Book Covers in the US and the UK

By Meagan Nolan

June 12, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Different Places, Different Faces: Book Covers in the US and the UK

As the cover of a book communicates to the potential reader what lies within, many conventions have emerged to highlight certain genres, such as an old photograph that promises a memoir, or a shirtless muscular man that promises a romance novel. To investigate further, we’ll look at four popular books sold in both the US and the UK and see what each cover has to say about the same story.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: audience, background, book covers, color, cover design, fantasy, font, genre, illustrations, international, memoir, mystery, photographs, popular books, publishers, publishing houses, reader, romance, thriller, UK, United Kingdom, United States, US, young adult

Backlist to the Future: 42

By Margaret Schimming

May 30, 2014 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Quizzically, I gaze at myself in the mirror. I notice half my face is covered in thick stubble, the other smooth as a baby’s butt. Apparently, after my car was dropped off I’d forgotten to finish the rest of my shave. Now that explains people’s reaction to me while in Powell’s, while shopping for sticky […]

Filed Under: Backlist to the Future Tagged With: 42, backlist, conspiracy, cooper, fiction, forty-two, mystery, paranoia, thriller

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