A new children’s publishing program is one of several areas of growth that Winstanley has identified for Simon & Schuster Canada. Also in her sights is expanding the literary imprint Scribner Canada as well as the publisher’s list more generally to include more categories than it has traditionally published in – broadening its lists to provide books for every reader.
The Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts will be published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart on Nov. 4, with simultaneous publishing in the U.S. by Doubleday and in the U.K. by Chatto & Windus.
“This has been, literally, my life’s work,” Wolfe says. “I came into publishing never expecting it would be the work that I would always do, but I loved it from the start.”
In a statement posted to the Vancouver-based independent press’s website earlier this week, publisher Rolf Maurer said he had made the “painful decision” to wind down the press’s operations.
After decades at the helm, co-founder and publisher Margie Wolfe has transferred ownership of the Toronto-based feminist and social-justice-driven independent publisher to Phuong Truong.
Jennings’s appointment is one of 88 announced Dec. 18 by Gov. Gen. Mary Simon.
Bowering, along with his partner Jean Baird and Katherine Kalsbeek, head of rare books and special collections at the UBC Library, is working on a project to recreate his creative work space as part of the library’s public spaces.
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