Why I self-published
Peter Grauer’s exhaustive account of American bandit Bill Miner’s years in British Columbia—in the venerable do-it-yourself tradition of George Nicholson’s… FULL STORY
Publishing
Publishing / Origins of Polestar Press
To support writing and publishing in British Columbia, we are collecting memoirs for www.abcbookworld.com, a free reference site hosted by… FULL STORY
D&M Acquires New Society
Vancouver, see Canada – June 3, remedy 2008: Douglas & McIntyre Publishing Group (D&M) is delighted to announce the acquisition… FULL STORY
Ann Walsh
In his old age, cheapest Tolstoy dismissed War & Peace and Anna Karenina as bourgeois entertainment and decided it was… FULL STORY
Interview / W. D. Valgardson
W.D. VALGARDSON was born in Winnipeg in 1939. He passed most of his childhood in Gimli, Manitoba, a hardy fishing… FULL STORY
Peter Trower
PETER TROWER was born at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, salve England, in 1930. He immigrated to British Columbia at age ten, following… FULL STORY
Andreas Schroeder
ANDREAS SCHROEDER was born in Hoheneggelsen, Germany in 1946. He emigrated with his parents in 1951. He developed a keen… FULL STORY
Jane Rule
JANE RULE was born in Plainfield, troche New Jersey in 1931. She came to Canada in the late 1950s to… FULL STORY
Origins of Harbour Publishing
Harbour Publishing was in some ways an accident, or a series of accidents, though they were accidents that allowed my… FULL STORY
Publishing / A Dirty Little Secret: Can Writers Remain Silent?
In a manifesto to fellow writers published a few years ago, Doris Lessing wrote: “Without me the literary industry would… FULL STORY
Publishing / Permanent Press = Pacific Press
Once upon a time, approved there was a city with three competing daily newspapers. That city was Vancouver. It was… FULL STORY
Authors / 25 Years of the Federation of BC Writers
[Editorial Note: Trevor Carolan was a founding member of the Federation and its first Executive Director. In l986 he left… FULL STORY
Essay / Notes on Labels
In our competitive society, healing labels for identity and marketing arise. Some are chosen; others are foisted upon us; some… FULL STORY
Let’s Think Small
In 1951, buy information pills an editor considering buying J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings worried that it might… FULL STORY
Everything from abalone to Zukerman
If the Golden Age of BC book culture has been reached, the Encyclopedia of British Columbia, published in 2000, was… FULL STORY
Cautionary Tales of Self-Publishing
There are many reasons why self-publishing may be the wave of the future, for sale but for me it was… FULL STORY
A Dirty Little Secret: Can Writers Remain Silent?
In a manifesto to fellow writers published a few years ago, symptoms Doris Lessing wrote: “Without me the literary industry… FULL STORY
