Happy Valentine’s Day to us! We’re in love—with the new manuscript from Ruth Tenzer Feldman! This Valentine’s Day, exactly one year from our anticipated pub date, Feldman returned the revised manuscript for Seven Stitches to our team. Earlier this winter, Feldman got her developmental letter from our acquisitions department, as well as met with our […]
YA lit
Trends in Cover Design: Actually, That Is How You Can Judge a Book
By Sophie Aschwanden
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 […]
New Year, New YA Title
By Alyssa Gnall
Last term, Ooligan Press was delighted to debut Eliot Treichel‘s first novel, A Series of Small Maneuvers. The book was met with great critical reception—our Starred Review in Publishers Weekly reappeared in their December Round-Up—and we finished the term with events in Portland at Powell’s on Hawthorne, in Sunriver at Sunriver Books and Music, and […]
An Analysis of Cover Art by an Ooligan Novice
By Alyssa Hanchar
This is my first term at Ooligan Press, and like the others in the program I love books. I love to read them, and I love to analyze them inside and out. I chose to look at all the Ooligan covers—past, present, and in development. The two that caught my attention the most were The […]
Forgive Me Nominated for the Lambda Literary Awards
By Megan Doyle
Ooligan Press is pleased to announce that Oregon native Karelia Stetz-Waters has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for her young adult novel Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before, published October 2014. Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before is nominated in the LGBT Children’s/Young Adult category. The book tells the […]