I just finished reading Option Strategies for Earnings Announcements book by Ping Zhou and John Shon. It introduces several ways to exploit option trading opportunities around earnings news.
Chapter 8 is especially relevant to what we are doing at SteadyOptions. It examines a strategy of "buying volatility" in the days or weeks prior to the earning announcements by longing straddles/strangles and closing the positions a day before the announcements when implied volatility is at its highest level.
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