Tag: dear editors
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Dear Editors: co-creation
Dear Editors, I’ve been working on my first book for about four years. Tracking Giants: Big Trees, Tiny Triumphs, and Misadventures in the Forest is coming from Greystone Books in spring 2023. It’s a travel memoir of learning to search for big trees in my home province of British Columbia, Canada. My editor sent the […]
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Dear Editors: Kilometrestones
Dear Editors, Book publishing moves so slowly, doesn’t it? There’s rarely an opportunity to yell “Stop the presses!” as we have plenty of lead time to update manuscripts and check proofs. Also, with the exception of some exceptional small presses (Coach House in Toronto, I’m looking at you), most publishing houses don’t have an actual […]
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Dear Editors: Big city hair
Dear Editors, I was 25 when I landed an editorial internship at Knopf Canada, an imprint of what is now Penguin Random House Canada. I had recently finished my master’s in literature, and was having the time of my life in Vancouver: working at a cafe, biking around the city at all hours, going to […]