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…
The holiday season is upon us, and many will be busy looking for that just-right gift for friends and family. As happy as this time of year may be for those who celebrate, the busy-ness of it all can also…
One afternoon last April, on a quest to gather information about biologist and author Rachel Carson for a book I would be writing, I guided my behemoth rental car along the grey streets of New Haven, Connecticut. The windshield wipers…
We're thrilled to announce that WCEA partner Rowena Rae and her sister, Elspeth Rae, have received a 2018 Moonbeam Award for their book A Duck in a Sock: Four Phonics Stories, the first in their Meg and Greg series of chapter books for…
Finalists were recently announced for the Canadian Children’s Book Centre Awards and the Victoria Book Prizes, and we were thrilled to see three books we worked on for Orca Book Publishers among the nominees. Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of…
Congratulations to WCEA partner Merrie-Ellen Wilcox, whose new non-fiction book, After Life: Ways We Think About Death (Orca Book Publishers), is launching in Victoria on September 8 (see time and place details below). Books will be available for sale, and a…
Huge congratulations to our partner Audrey McClellan for winning this year's Ewart-Daveluy Award for the index she created for Churchill and Fisher (which she also edited and which earned a rave review in the Times Literary Supplement). Presented by the Indexing Society of…
The Alcuin Society recently announced the winners of its 36th annual design awards, and we were delighted to see on the list a number of cookbooks copy edited or proofread by partner Lana Okerlund—in fact, all four of the titles…
We're always thrilled to see a book we have worked on appear on the BC Bestseller List, and especially when it hits the number-one spot. That is the case with A Matter of Confidence, by Richard Zussman and Rob Shaw, which…
In March, I had the opportunity to attend the Book Publishing Boot Camp. Put on by LifeTree Media and business coach Pamela Chatry, this day was a chance to connect with authors, hear about their work, and talk to them…