Q&Q Omni Category: Snapshot
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Snapshot: Dundurn Press founder and publisher Kirk Howard
Dundurn Press was founded in 1972 as a niche publisher of Canadian history, but since then the Toronto-based firm has expanded its focus to include... Read the rest »
Q&A: Patrick Brown, community manager at Goodreads
As a preview of this year’s sold-out BookNet Canada Technology Forum, taking place in Toronto on March 24, Q&Q caught up with Patrick Brown, community... Read the rest »
Anna Kate MacDonald
Originally from Pictou, Nova Scotia, Anna Kate MacDonald is the director of publishing operations for Breakwater Books in St. John’s, Newfoundland. How did you... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Diana Barry
Diana Barry joined the Association of Canadian Publishers in 2009 in the newly created role of director of digital services. She has worked as membership... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Matt Williams
An industry veteran, Matt Williams is vice-president of publishing operations for House of Anansi Press and Groundwood Books. Twice named a “one to watch” by... Read the rest »
John Kruusi
A student of Ryerson University’s publishing certificate program, John Kruusi was tapped to replace Penguin Canada’s outgoing rights and contracts co-ordinator Harmony Ho at the... Read the rest »
Sarah Yu
When Selina Rajani left Self-Counsel Press last fall to work for the Vancouver Opera, she opened up a vacancy in the B.C.-based publisher’s publicity department.... Read the rest »
Alex Moorshead
Earlier this year, Word on the Street Canada appointed Alex Moorshead as its new executive director. She heads into the job with a lot of... Read the rest »
Robyn Read and Sarah Ivany
Freehand Books, the Calgary-based indie press that surprised everybody last year by landing a Scotiabank Giller Prize nomination for Marina Endicott’s Good to a Fault,... Read the rest »
Animal M.D.
Bud Ings, author of the memoir Mud, Sweat and Tears, was the only professional veterinarian in PEI’s rural Kings County throughout the 1950s. His book,... Read the rest »
Barbara Bower
Toronto native Barbara Bower came to the business from Centennial College’s Book and Magazine Publishing program. She joined the HarperCollins Canada publicity department in 2005... Read the rest »
Snapshot: John Degen
The new literature officer for the Ontario Arts Council has straddled the divide between books and magazines throughout his career. John Degen, a Toronto native... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Kate Cassaday
When Kate Cassaday began her career at HarperCollins Canada in 2006, it was as an assistant editor to publishers Iris Tupholme and Phyllis Bruce. After... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Emily Leeson
Until recently, Emily Leeson was working as a marketing and publicity assistant for McClelland & Stewart and Random House of Canada, but when her husband... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Melanie Little
Last year, Calgary author Melanie Little moved to the other side of the desk, taking over as editor of Freehand Books, a new literary imprint... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Chris Reed
Chris Reed started off in the book biz as a manager at the Great Canadian Book Company in Ottawa. He went on to co-ordinate the... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Peter Cocking
When the most recent Alcuin Awards were announced – the annual prizes recognize Canadian book design – Peter Cocking walked away with an armful. The... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Anjula Gogia
Anjula Gogia started her first publishing job at the beginning of this year, when she took over as editorial co-ordinator at the Toronto social-justice publisher... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Chris Labonte
Douglas & McIntyre’s new fiction editor, Chris Labonté, has already been with the firm for several years as an assistant – first to Greystone Books... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Jim Polk
Last fall, Jim Polk won the Organization of Book Publishers of Ontario’s Janice E. Handford Small Press Award, honouring an individual’s contribution to Canadian literary... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Selina Rajani
The story of Selina Rajani’s entry into publishing should gladden the hearts of young job-seekers everywhere. “I went through the phone book, called up three... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Amber Rider
Amber Rider bought the Vancouver Island bookstore the Cadboro Bay Book Company early last year. An Edmonton native, she came to the gig with background... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Lara Hinchberger
Lara Hinchberger, hired this fall as McClelland & Stewart’s new executive editor for fiction, came to publishing from the academic world, having completed an MA... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Sally Harding
Sally Harding left the book world Down Under – where she had worked as an editor for Britannica while doing a Master’s of Publishing program... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Chris Houston
Chris Houston, the marketing director of Tourmaline Editions, is celebrating his 20th year in the book business. Houston began working as a bookseller at Coles... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Bethany Gibson
Bethany Gibson started out in publishing about 10 years ago, working as a freelance editor and with the Anne McDermid & Associates literary agency. Just... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Rachna Davidar
Rachna Davidar has bookselling in her blood. Her first job in the business was working in her father’s bookshop in Delhi. After a brief excursion... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Anne Whebby
Anne Whebby opened Tattletales Books, which specializes in children’s and educational books (and which is nominated for a Libris Award this year in the specialty... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Amy Logan Holmes
Amy Logan Holmes has stepped into a new role as the executive director of Open Book: Toronto, a new OMDC-funded initiative to promote Canadian books... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Andrew Wooldridge
Andrew Wooldridge is the proud new owner of half of Orca Book Publishers, the Victoria, B.C. company where he has worked for almost 15 years.... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Lyn Cadence
Lyn Cadence moved back to her hometown of Calgary last year to become promotions director at Fifth House Publishers. Her career in publishing began in... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Deborah McVittie
Deborah McVittie began her career as a bookstore owner last September, when she bought the popular Vancouver indie 32 Books from Mary Trentadue. Before embarking... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Sandy Cooper
Before recently joining Raincoast Books, Sandy Cooper spent 15 years as a sales rep at HarperCollins Canada. She began as a children’s specialist, and later... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Jack Wayne
Jack Wayne, the new president of the Association of Canadian Publishers and the owner of Canadian Scholars’ Press, began as a Jack of many trades... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Jim Chalmers
Jim Chalmers Jim Chalmers, the vice-president of Canadian Manda Group, is stepping down at the end of June after a long and varied... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Steve Osgoode
While he hasn’t yet fulfilled his goal of editing comic books, Steve Osgoode is very happy with his job as HarperCollins Canada’s director... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Kathryn Cole
he senior editor position at Tundra Books is the latest stop in Kathryn Cole’s career in children’s publishing, which began 36 years ago at Scholastic... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Dulcey Antonucci
At the start of 2006, Dulcey Antonucci moved from McClelland & Stewart, where she had been a publicist since 2004, to Simon & Schuster Canada... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Scott Steedman
Last fall, Scott Steedman left Raincoast Books after four years as editorial director, non-fiction, to become senior editor at Douglas & McIntyre. At Raincoast, one... Read the rest »
Snapshot: George A. Walker
By day, George A. Walker is a designer for Firefly Books. By night, he is an award-winning wood engraver and, with his wife, operates a... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Susan McIntosh
After stints as a bookseller in Toronto and Montreal, where she attended McGill University, Susan McIntosh got her first publishing job as the Ontario sales... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Michael Katz
The publisher and creative force behind Tradewind Books, a children’s publisher on Vancouver’s trendy Granville Island, is Michael Katz. “I jumped into publishing direct from... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Jennifer Canham
Normally, the first question asked of Snapshot subjects is, “What was your first job in the book business?” In the case of Jennifer Canham, her... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Margaret Eaton
Margaret Eaton took over as the executive director of the Association of Canadian Publishers in mid-February. Coming from the Canadian Magazine Publishers Association, where she... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Helen Reeves
Newly appointed Penguin Canada associate editor Helen Reeves has been given the difficult task of turning up cutting edge fiction and non-fiction by young writers.... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Craig Pyette
A couple of months after Craig Pyette was promoted from publishing co-ordinator to associate editor of Random House Canada, he acquired his first book. Enter... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Samantha Haywood
Since becoming an associate agent at Transatlantic Literary Agency last January, Samantha Haywood has assembled a list of clients that includes journalist Elaine Dewar and... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Alana Wilcox
In addition to fighting to save her historic workspace, Coach House Books editor Alana Wilcox is a published author and the vice-chair of the board... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Marven Krug
At the end of July 2004, Marven Krug, Amazon.ca’s founding general manager, left Seattle for a job as director of product development with Abebooks.com in... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Derek Murr
Recently named manager of Pages Books and Magazines, Marc Glassman’s popular independent bookstore on Queen Street West in Toronto, Derek Murr began his career as... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Jordan Fenn
The sale of Key Porter Books to H.B. Fenn and Company is complete, and one of the subsequent changes to the firm that Anna... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Oliver Salzmann
Oliver Salzmann is back. In May, he became the new publisher at Madison Press Books after eight years abroad. Salzmann spent most of that time... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Jamie Broadhurst
Jamie Broadhurst recently joined Raincoast Books as director of marketing, less than a year after he had accepted the same job at Raincoast's fellow Vancouver... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Susan Rich
Since 2001, Susan Rich has worked out of the HarperCollins Canada office – but as an editor for HarperCollins’ U.S. children’s division. Rich first studied... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Tom Andrews
Tom Andrews, who has recently joined Thomas Allen & Son as marketing and publicity manager, started in the book business on the retail side 26... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Graham Fidler
Graham Fidler was recently promoted to vice-president of sales and marketing at Publishers Group Canada. He had previously worked as the East Coast sales rep... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Melanie Rutledge
Melanie Rutledge was named head of the Canada Council for the Arts’ writing and publishing section last August, replacing Gordon Platt. She moved into the... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Don Bassingthwaite
Don Bassingthwaite has spent most of his professional career associated with the University of Toronto in some way. While a student in the master of... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Tory McNally
Tory McNally, a second-generation bookseller, started handselling and serving cookies in her parents’ Winnipeg store, McNally Robinson Booksellers, at the age of 12. Apart from... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Dean Cooke
Agent Dean Cooke started in publishing in 1979, with a small company called Virgo Press that published primarily mass-market paperbacks. When it went out of... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Nick Smith
This spring Nick Smith, sales vice-president at Canadian Manda Group, signed a deal to take on ownership of the sales agency over the next three... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Michael Tamblyn
Michael Tamblyn brings experience from both inside and outside the book trade to his new position as CEO of BookNet Canada, the recently formed supply... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Chris Bucci
“From the first I wanted to be an editor,” says Chris Bucci, who joined HarperCollins Canada as a non-fiction editor early this year. “I started... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Stephen Quick
“Except for a rather gruesome two-year stint as manager of an auto-parts warehouse around 1985 I have been in the book industry in one way... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Kathy Goncharenko
She’s worked at H.B. Fenn, Douglas & McIntyre, and Stewart House, and Kathy Goncharenko is now settling into a new role at Scholastic Canada, where... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Sarah McLachlan
When Sarah MacLachlan took over as the new president of House of Anansi Press in December, she brought a considerable depth of experience in publicity,... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Robert Kasher
“I guess the better question would be where haven’t I worked,” says Robert Kasher when asked to recap his CV. Currently the director of sales... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Richard King
Richard King has been busy this year promoting his first novel, That Sleep of Death (Dundurn Press), a mystery about a Montreal independent bookstore owner... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Alma Lee
Alma Lee is the founder and artistic director of the Vancouver International Writers Festival, which is celebrating its 15th year this fall. Born in Edinburgh,... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Margaret Bryant
Margaret Bryant began selling trade and professional titles for John Wiley & Sons Canada in Montreal (covering Eastern Canada), then moved to Toronto to cover... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Nancy Flight
Nancy Flight was recently named associate publisher at Greystone Books. Flight’s book career began in San Francisco, where she worked for several firms – San... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Bonnie Harris
In late April Bonnie Harris took over as director of sales and marketing at Thomas Allen & Son, after filling the same role at Key... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Laurie Greenwood
Laurie Greenwood received a BA from the University of Alberta in 1978, then joined her siblings to open Greenwoods’ Bookshoppe in Edmonton. Two years ago... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Nik Burton
Nik Burton began working in the literary world in 1976, after graduating from the journalism program at Mount Royal College in Calgary. He was the... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Scott McIntyre
After a brief stint at McClelland & Stewart, Scott McIntyre returned to his native Vancouver in 1970 and joined Jim Douglas in Douglas Agencies and... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Ann Ledden
When Ann Ledden moved to McArthur & Company in January – to take on the role of vice-president of sales – it was a reunion... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Anne Wedler
Anne Wedler began working at The Inside Story in Greenwood, Nova Scotia, in 1987. Two years later she and her husband Edward purchased the bookstore... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Jan Walter
Jan Walter, a graduate of Carleton University, operated her own bookstore, Fifth Business Books, in the late 1970s. Her publishing career began in 1970 at... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Philip Cercone
Philip Cercone was hired in 1976 by the Humanities Research Council of Canada and Social Sciences Research Council of Canada as a publications officer in... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Martha Kanya-Forstner
In March of 1998, Martha Kanya-Forstner began an editorial internship at Doubleday Canada. Six weeks later she was hired as Maya Mavjee’s assistant, and she... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Catherine McKay
Before buying the Calgary bookstore Pages Books on Kensington, Catherine McKay had already had a long career in the book business. After a stint with... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Phyllis Bruce
After teaching high school for three years, Phyllis Bruce worked as an educational and college editor at Nelson Canada and Copp Clark. She then worked... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Lisa Charters
Lisa Charters is currently the director of online sales and marketing for Random House of Canada Limited. In this role she directs the company’s digital... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Deborah Lewington
Over the years, Deborah Lewington has worked as a buyer for several of Canada’s book retail chains, from Classics to W.H. Smith to Coles to... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Sandra Hargreaves
Sandra Hargreaves worked at Penguin Canada from 1976 to 1991, beginning as the Alberta sales rep and working her way through positions as sales manager,... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Eric Jensen
Eric Jensen has worked in book retailing for a little over 20 years. Though he turned in brief stints at The Computer Book Source and... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Marc Cote
New Cormorant Press publisher and co-owner Marc Côté has held a variety of industry jobs over the years, including stints in the media (Books in... Read the rest »
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