After journeying around the world with her two young sons, Rebekah Tyler plunged into the world of self-publishing with a successful Kickstarter campaign for her memoir, Full Tilt. She popularized herself while traveling around northern New Zealand by bike, with a cart advertising her book trailing behind her. For those who are unfamiliar with New […]
Interview
Mel Wells: From Ooligan to Literary Arts
By Ooligan PressWe’re excited to showcase our talented alums as they move on to bigger things. Mel Wells graduated from Ooligan in 2009 and currently works as the Program Coordinator at Literary Arts in Portland, Oregon. What made you decide to come to the publishing program at PSU? As an undergrad, I was an English major with […]
Beyond Start to Finish
By Ooligan PressInterview with Eliot Treichel by Miranda Rabuck Ooligan’s innovative Start to Finish pages, which document a book’s progress from its acquisition to its launch, are valuable to our authors because they give them a behind-the-scenes look at the development of their books. Since many authors think of their books as their babies, the blogging that […]
Lidia Yuknavitch at the 2013 Write to Publish
By Ooligan PressLidia Yuknavitch will be speaking at this year’s Write to Publish conference (W2P), Saturday, Feb. 23 at the Native American Student and Community Center. Most readers know Yuknavitch from her 2011 memoir, The Chronology of Water, published locally by Hawthorne Books. She is also the author of the novel Dora: A Headcase—what she describes as […]
Talking Small Presses with Scott Dominic Carpenter
By Ooligan PressAt Ooligan, we pride ourselves on our Pacific Northwest roots. We focus on the stories, voices, and concerns unique to this great corner of the nation. This focus sets us apart, but it also ties us to presses with similar missions in other parts of country, like Midwestern Gothic Press in Ann Arbor, Michigan. As a […]