Projects

By Chuck Davis for Harbour Publishing. Described by the author as “the capstone of my writing career,” this book won multiple awards including the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize and the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award. Part of a team of proofreaders.

By Arthur Black for Harbour Publishing. Arthur Black is one of Canada’s best-known humorists and former host of the CBC radio program Basic Black. Proofreader.

By Peter C. Newman for Douglas & McIntyre. Winner of the Petroleum History Society Book of the Year Award, author and journalist Peter C. Newman recounts the history of Westcoast Energy. Proofreader.

By Carolyn Herriot for Harbour Publishing. With her companion book to The Zero-Mile Diet, gardening activist Carolyn Herriot shares more ideas to cook up fresh food from the garden. Proofreader.

By Elizabeth May for Greystone Books. Described as “a marriage of memoir and manifesto,” Who We Are is former Green Party leader Elizabeth May’s moving exploration of her beliefs about democracy, climate change, and civil society. Copy editor.

By Tom Berger for Douglas & McIntyre. Judge and Royal Commissioner Thomas Berger recounts key cases in his long and impressive career in the law, including his ground-breaking work in indigenous rights in Canada. Copy editor.

By Mike McCardell for Harbour Publishing. Reporter Mike McCardell brings his investigative skills to a funny and implausible early history of Vancouver told through its liveliest characters, real and imagined. Copy editor. .

By Patricia Von Tighem for Greystone Books. The Bear’s Embrace is a remarkable, moving account of a horrifying attack and Van Tighem’s painful, prolonged recovery. Copy editor.

By Marc Strange & Jackson Davies for Harbour Publishing. A celebration of the fortieth anniversary of Canada’s longest-running TV production, The Beachcombers, Bruno and the Beach tells the behind-the-scenes stories in a rich pictorial history. Structural editor.

By Mark Forsythe & Greg Dickson for Harbour Publishing. For the 100th anniversary of World War I, BC Almanac host Mark Forsythe and historian Greg Dickson teamed up to recount a crucial and little-known chapter of our province’s history. Structural editor.

By James P. Delgado for Douglas & McIntyre. Lost Warships traces the history of war at sea from the beginnings of naval combat in the ancient Mediterranean and on China’s rivers and lakes through to the lost ships and sea battles of World War II. Structural editor.

By Susan Point & Gary Wyatt for Douglas & McIntyre/U Washington. With this richly illustrated work, Coast Salish artist Susan Point continues her efforts to educate the public about indigenous art of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Structural editor.

By Heather Prittie for Bowen Island Municipality.