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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

Susan McCaslin Guest Poet Post: “The Han Shan Poetry Project: How Poetry Came to Save a Rainforest”

By Ooligan Press

April 18, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Every Thursday, Ooligan Press invites a poet whose work is included in Alive at the Center, our forthcoming anthology of poetry from Pacific Northwest writers, to blog for us. This week, we are pleased to feature Susan McCaslin, a poet from Fort Langley, BC. An earlier version of this piece was first published in the March 2013 […]

Filed Under: Guest Blogger Tagged With: Alive at the Center, Alive at the Center: Featured Poet, Art in the Park, Australia, BC Book Prize, British Columbia, California, China, Cold Mountain, Earth Day, Florida, Great Blue Heron, Great Spotted Frog, Han Shan Poetry Project, Langley, New Mexico, ooligan press, Pacific Water Shrew, Poet Laureate, poetry, rainforest, Susan McCaslin, Sustainable forests, Thanksgiving, The Opus Women's Choir, township, turkey, United Kingdom, University of Alberta Press, Vancouver Island, Watchers Of Langley Forests, www.susanmccaslin.ca

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