At the beginning of May, I donned my children’s book author hat and attended the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators’ Marvellous Midwest conference in Chicago. I attended many informative sessions, but particularly thought-provoking was a panel discussion titled…
May 11 was a night to celebrate as the 35th annual BC Book Prizes were awarded. What a treat it was to be at the gala to watch as nominees were announced, envelopes were opened, and winners were named. Our…
West Coast Editorial Associates recently included an Indigenous territorial acknowledgement on the Contact page of our website: We are grateful to the Indigenous keepers of the traditional and unceded lands on which we live and work: the Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh,…
One of the great pleasures of working on cookbooks is spending time in the midst of outstanding book design. One example is The Last Schmaltz, published by WCEA client Appetite by Random House. Our hearty congratulations to CS Richardson and…
A 2018 article in the New Yorker describes actor Daniel Radcliffe going undercover as a fact-checker to prepare for his role in the Broadway show The Lifespan of a Fact. Peter Canby, head of fact-checking at the New Yorker, tells…
What could be better than a book celebrating “the preeminent information-providing, knowledge-endowing, solace-giving, belief-supporting, leisure-enriching, pleasure-delivering medium of all time”? That is, a book celebrating the book? That's what we thought when retired WCEA partner Louise Oborne tipped us off…
What a huge delight it was to attend the February 28 launch of Divine Threads: The Visual and Material Culture of Cantonese Opera, by April Liu. The latest in a series of exquisite books co-published by Figure 1 and the…
In 1989 things seemed fresh. The Berlin Wall came down. Reagan finally left the White House. Seinfeld hit TV screens; so did The Simpsons. New Kids on the Block were actually new. For me 1989 marked a fresh start. At…
’Tis the season of New Year’s resolutions—with a constant stream of articles, TV and radio news stories, and online clickbait telling us what we need to do to have better health, better productivity, and a better life in 2019. I’ve…
Congratulations to the BC Medical Journal on 60 years as the flagship publication of Doctors of BC. For a good many of those years, the journal has been a favoured client of ours. Claudette Upton, a founding member of WCEA, served…