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Book Covers and Bandwagons

By Emma Hovley

March 16, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Book Covers and Bandwagons

Before I dive into the complex world of book covers, I should confess that my rudimentary and frankly half-hearted initial search quickly turned into a passionate and intense hunt for cultural trends, typography, and design. It turns out that book covers are fascinating and not altogether unlike clothing fashion. Just as I wear styles first adopted by fashion icons who convince me of their chic-cool factor (I’m looking at you, overalls and turtlenecks), there are design bandwagoners for book covers as well.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: book design, cover design, Design, font, trends, typography

Fearless Bookman

By Kristen Ludwigsen

August 30, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Fearless Bookman

I had the privilege of sitting down with John Henley, a well-known appraiser of rare books in the Pacific Northwest. He has also been an adjunct of the PSU Book Publishing Program since its inception, teaching the survey course titled The Popular Book in the United States. We talked about his job as appraiser, his Oolie aspirations, and how his love of books—inspired early on by his mother—led him to a career of buying and selling them for Powell’s and The Great Northwest Bookstore.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: appraisals, bestseller, book scouting, books, Captain Cook’s Voyages, Dr. Martin Luther King, interview, John Henley, Malcolm X, Marketing, Maya Angelou, Oolies, ooligan press, Oregon, popular, Portland, Portland State, Powell’s Books, publishing, Rare Books, Ray Bradbury, Ricochet River, trends, Willamette Bridge, Willamette Week

Predicting the Future: Managing Your Story within Trending Book Crazes

By Maeko Bradshaw @makosharkattack and Vi La Bianca @Vi_LaBianca

June 19, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Predicting the Future: Managing Your Story within Trending Book Crazes

Writers will often see a trend they like and try to emulate it, sure that if they capitalize on something that is currently popular or has been recently well-received, a publisher is sure to pick it up. This isn’t always the case.

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: Acquisitions, Marketing, publishing, submissions, trends

Trends in Cover Design: Actually, That Is How You Can Judge a Book

By Sophie Aschwanden

February 19, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Trends in Cover Design: Actually, That Is How You Can Judge a Book

Young adult publishers certainly do like to put disembodied body parts on their covers, don’t they? They also like that hazy Instagram look and showing the protagonist with his or her back to the reader. And they really like a hand-drawn font. It’s getting to the point where it’s almost as hard to find a […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: book covers, Design, Kait Heacock, publishing, Siblings and Other Disappointments, trends, YA lit, young adult

There’s No Accounting for Taste

By Leigh Thomas leighkaisen

December 16, 2015 by OoliganPress 1 Comment

There’s No Accounting for Taste

Recently in my leisure reading, I noticed I had coincidentally chosen a handful of books that all had to do with mermaids or the circus. These weren’t back-to-back reads; rather they were each chosen independently over the course of a year or so, but there they were: mermaids, a randomly specific topic that had surfaced […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: bestsellers, books, fiction, subgenres, trends

Ooligan Press at AWP: A Review

By Keely Burkey

March 5, 2014 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Ooligan Press at AWP: A Review

Greetings, all! As many of you probably know, Ooligan Press recently attended the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference & Bookfair in Seattle, and there’s a lot to report. It was a great experience for everyone involved: Ooligan Press, Portland State’s book publishing program, and all of us hooligans who trekked up north […]

Filed Under: Ooligan at large Tagged With: AWP, future, ooligan press, publishing, Seattle, transmedia, trends

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