Overview
I am passionate about helping authors maintain their unique storytelling voices while creating the best books they can write. I began my career twenty years ago working for Amazon as a copy editor and proofreader for BookSurge, their self-publishing company, editing everything from memoirs to cookbooks to literary novels. I am now a contract editor for FriesenPress and well as for private clients, and I was a marketing coordinator at Caitlin Press, an award-winning publishing house. I am a literary fiction writer and have published two novels (ONE GOOD THING, Touchwood Editions, 2018, and GRACE RIVER, Brindle and Glass, 2009) as well as numerous short stories in literary journals.
Services
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
Fiction
Contemporary Fiction
Fantasy
Literary Fiction
Women's Fiction
Languages
English (CAN)
English (UK)
English (US)
Work experience
FriesenPress
Dec, 2015 —
Present
Caitlin Press
Jun, 2012 —
Oct, 2014
(over 2 years)
BookSurge/Amazon
Jan, 2002 —
Apr, 2005
(about 3 years)
Edited non-fiction, fiction and poetry manuscripts for Amazon's self-publishing company
Portfolio
When 25-year-old Jo climbed down the ramp of the freighter Canadian Star to set foot in Vancouver, BC, in the summer of 1967, she'd never heard of log salvaging. But within two-and-a-half years, the immigrant from England would quit her teaching job and join f... read more
An anthology of Canadian immigrant women and their experiences of being caught between the world of their past and the world of their future. Edited by Miriam Matejova, WHEREVER I FIND MYSELF is a diverse collection of stories about the joys and struggles of i... read more
Sometimes tragic, sometimes uproariously funny, This Place a Stranger is a diverse collection of Canadian women writing about their experiences of travelling alone. From the deceptiveness of the everyday to the extremes of geography, weather and violence, thes... read more
Surgei Galipova, a Russian immigrant and a rancher in the Cariboo region of British Columbia, owes his life to the Countess Catherine Stanislavovna Federov. When the Countess asks Surgei to send his eighteen-year-old daughter, Alice, to help her in a private h... read more
She grew up playing on log booms and living in float houses, and at nine years old she learned to shoot a rifle and hunt game. Strong-willed and independent, Betty Frank always had a difficult time following the rules laid down by others. Rather than sit in a ... read more
A courageous and timely novel, Tears of Mehndi explores the rich, complex and often heartbreaking lives of a tight-knit community in Vancouver’s Little India. Through the perspectives of several women whose lives intertwine over a generation, Raminder Sidhu de... read more
Since women started working in the trades in the 1970s, very little has been published about their experiences. In this provocative and important book, Kate Braid tells the story of how she became a carpenter in the face of skepticism and discouragement. In 19... read more
Maureen Foss's off-beat and darkly funny third novel begins when four quirky and mismatched women answer an ad to join a writing group. Unlikely friendships and wild adventures ensue as their lives start to unravel around them. Bunny, the wife of a calculating... read more
Mantis Dreams: The Journal of Dr. Dexter Ripley is a crackling, searing satire that ridicules both political correctness and the restrictive world of academia. But Adam Pottle's first novel is also a poignant and difficult glance into the world of a man battli... read more
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