Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds. —Fran Lebowitz Sorry, Fran. We think that spilling your guts is charming, and we plan to gush about Kait Heacock and Siblings and Other Disappointments constantly. Since unveiling the cover, we have been working hard to develop the marketing and social media plans and […]
Ooligan Press Does #PitMad
By Bess Pallares besspallares
The Ooligan Press acquisitions department will participate in the Twitter pitch party #PitMad on Thursday, March 17. If Ooligan’s Twitter account—@ooliganpress—likes your #PitMad tweet, we have officially invited you to submit a book proposal package through our Submittable page. Please note in your cover letter that you were invited to submit through #PitMad and include […]
Behind the Scenes of the UtK Social Media Initiative
By Hayley Wilson hayleyotrope
Perhaps the most exciting and daunting promotional aspect of Ooligan Press’s upcoming title Untangling the Knot is the anthology’s whopping roll call of twenty-six contributors. That’s twenty-six sets of readers and their fans to connect with, and—supposing that most of these writers participate in at least one form of social media—at least twenty-six different social […]
Authors Navigate Social Media Waters
By k Marthaler
All writers must come to terms with knowing that bringing the book to press is the biggest but not the last step of the book publishing process. Authors need to be actively involved in the promotion of their books. Those who develop a social media presence and attend to their fanbase online are more attractive to agents […]
Interning with Sparkplug Comic Books, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Tumblr
By Sarah Currin
I knew when I decided to work towards a career in publishing that I would be satisfied with that track. Publishing, after all, would utilize my creativity and language skills, not to mention provide me with a sense of personal satisfaction. However, when I realized that I could choose to work towards a career in […]
Resolution Solutions!
By Ooligan PressBy Rebekah Hunt It’s that time of year again! The time of year when most people observe the age-old tradition of setting untenable goals for themselves based on a ceremonial date marking the change of the year according to an arbitrary calendar, while everyone else observes the only slightly less age-old tradition of writing […]