As BC editors, we’re always excited when the BC Book Prize finalists are announced. The shortlisted authors for 2018 include Ian McAllister and Nicholas Read, for Wolf Island (Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize), proofread by partner Audrey McClellan; poet,…
People often get a deeper insight into their profession when their table turns: teacher becomes student, doctor becomes patient, or, in my case, editor becomes writer. I’ve been writing for years and have been edited plenty of times. My graduate…
Congratulations to author and naval historian Barry Gough for the glowing Times Literary Supplement review of his book Churchill and Fisher: Titans at the Admiralty, edited by WCEA partner Audrey McClellan and published by Lorimer in 2017. "This enthralling book...is a work…
As WCEA’s 25th anniversary year winds down, we’re casting a nostalgic look back at Christmas 1992. Brian Mulroney was prime minister. Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” topped the Billboard charts. Fax machines ruled, and CDs outsold cassette tapes…
We're thrilled at the news that Transatlantic Agency has signed WCEA partner Frances Peck as a new client. Frances's first novel, The Broken Places, is already in the hands of potential publishers. "Delighted to be repped by this esteemed agency," Frances…
Congratulations to our partner Rowena Rae and her sister, Elspeth Rae, on the release of their book A Duck in a Sock: Four Phonics Stories, the first in the Meg and Greg series of chapter books for six- to nine-year-olds who…
We were delighted to see several of our clients honoured at the recent Taste Canada Awards. Jennifer Cockrall-King and TouchWood Editions came away with gold for Food Artisans of the Okanagan in the culinary narratives category; Jim Sutherland and Appetite by…
Our congratulations to the winners of the 2017 Victoria Book Prizes: Margriet Ruurs, recipient of the Bolen Books Children's Book Prize for Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family’s Journey (Orca Book Publishers), and Yasuko Thanh, recipient of the City of Victoria Butler Book…
We are delighted that Colin Henthorne’s The Queen of the North Disaster: The Captain’s Story (Harbour Publishing) has won the Keith Matthews Award for a book deserving special recognition, an honour bestowed by the Canadian Nautical Research Society. The jury…
As West Coast Editorial Associates celebrates our 25th anniversary this year, we’ve been talking a lot about the partnership’s history. Past and current partners have shared stories and photos that have made us laugh (a lot), sometimes groan, and occasionally…