Heavy and Light Copyedits – YA Sci-Fi

Another upcoming Ooligan Press book that I can’t wait for everyone to read is Promise the Sky by Katrina Spillman, which we’re publishing in partnership with Multnomah County Library Writers Project. It’s a YA sci-fi space opera, and it’s awesome. Promise the Sky will release in spring 2027.

I’ve been a little more hands-on with this book than some others because we’re also going to be recording the audiobook, which falls under my department. More on that to come.

For this book, I participated in both the first-round copyedit (heavy/medium) and the second-round copyedit (medium/light), so I’m sharing samples of both.

Here’s a sample from the first, heavy/medium copyedit, which involved a lot of standardizing ellipses and capitalizations of names and terms within the world of the book (style sheets are our friends):

PTS – Heavy:Medium CEDownload

Here is a sample from the second, medium/light copyedit:

PTS – Light:Medium CEDownload

We don’t have a cover yet for Promise the Sky, so I’ll come back and update when we do!

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Published by Chrys Buckley

Chrys Buckley was born with albinism, which means she has no pigment and she’s legally blind. Chrys has bachelor’s degrees in Arts & Letters, Micro/Molecular Biology, and Biochemistry. She endured approximately ¾ of medical school before breaking free to focus on writing and disability advocacy. She’s currently in the Book Publishing graduate program at Portland State University, pursuing concentrations in Book Editing and Book Design. Chrys is the manager of the Digital and Audio departments at Ooligan Press. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Sun, Shark Reef, and Aerial. She was a finalist (twice) in MTV’s “I’m from Rolling Stone” writing contest. She has won the R.L. Gilette Scholarship and the Sophie Kerr Gift in English Literature. Her debut collection Invisible Violets: A Mixtape in Lyric Essays is forthcoming from Wandering Aengus Press. Chrys lives, works, walks, and writes in Portland.

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