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Good evening and welcome onboard CANONtales As we type this introduction early on Monday morning, international air travel has entered folklore and London Book Fair looks set to be as well attended as a ginger kid's birthday party thanks to a show-stealing volcano. Don't despair! The fourth chapter of CANONtales is here to get us all back on our feet to celebrate the incredible people and projects that make publishing the vibrant and exciting industry we all know it is. Authors are the creative heart of publishing, but this evening is about the passionate (and often unsung) folk behind the scenes who innovate relentlessly and contribute so much to the creative process. We were inspired to curate an irregular series of CANONtales by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham who, in 2003, devised a snappy 20 image x 20 second presentation format for architects called PechaKucha. Why did they do it? 'Because architects talk too much!' Why do we do it? Because publishers don't talk enough about what they do, and they often have incredible stories to tell. Finally, we’d like to say a BIG thank you to Kathryn and Nicki, Chair and Vice-Chair at the SYP for sponsoring tonight’s event and helping to make everything possible. And to Pascal for his inspired contribution to the CANONtales branding. Please make sure your belts are securely fastened for take off. We hope you enjoy the flight! Doug and Jon
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Emma Young (To Hell With Publishing) Iain Millar (Marketing Manager, Quercus) Tr창m-Anh Doan (Paperbacks Editor, Bloomsbury) Dylan Calder (Director, StarLit festival) James Bridle (jamesbridle.com) Ross Sutherland (Poet, Aisle 16)
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Ben Hammersley (Editor at Large, WIRED UK) Stefanie Posavec (Cover Designer, Penguin & itsbeenreal) Ramy Habeeb (Director, co-founder Kotobarabia) Sophie Rochester (Content Editor, Man Booker Prize) Kate Wilson (Managing Director, Nosy Crow) John Grindrod (Campaigns Manager, Faber & Faber)
James Bridle
http://shorttermmemoryloss.com
James Bridle is a publisher, writer and artist based in London. His work includes experimental and electronic publishing, film-making, storytelling, interactive applications, and analysing and consulting to the book trade.
Dylan Calder Dylan is currently Programme Director of StarLit festival, which launched in 2009. StarLit matches school classes with book titles, then presents a week of events with their authors and artists. 2010’s festival will see 114 classes and 60 authors and artists from 16 publishers taking part, including Malorie Blackman, Philip Reeve and Andy Stanton. He recently formed J&D Consultants with Joanna De Guia, to develop and present children’s literature projects. He’s just finished his first novel for children, The Stars, and is about to embark on his second.
Trâm-Anh Doan Trâm-Anh Doan graduated with an English degree in 2005 and began working at Bloomsbury Publishing later that year. She assisted several commissioning editors in the adult division, and became Paperbacks Editor in 2008.
John Grindrod John Grindrod has worked in bookselling and publishing from the age of 16, starting out in
Twitter: @Grindrod
Croydon Sherratt & Hughes in 1987 and working his way via Waterstone’s Marketing Dept and HarperCollins to Campaign Manager at Faber and Faber. Highlights have included numerous QI campaigns, releasing a live Flanimal at London Zoo and spotting typos in his own ads while reading the Guardian Guide. He edited and part-wrote the 2009 book Shouting at the Telly, and also tells the odd shaggy dog story at open mic comedy nights.
Ben Hammersley
Blog: http://benhammersley.com Product: http://startbudding.com Magazine: www.wired.co.uk Agency: www.six-creative.com Twitter: @benhammersley
Ben Hammersley is Editor at Large of WIred UK, Head of Digital at SIX Creative, the international multidisciplinary creative agency bringing the luxury and high fashion world to the internet; and founder of Dangerous Precedent, a company dedicated to revolutionising editorial management and workflow in the 21st century. Before this, he was a war correspondent, a multimedia developer, and the inventor of the word ‘podcast’.
Ramy Habeeb
www.kotobarabia.com r.habeeb@kotobarabia.com
Ramy Habeeb graduated from McGill University with a double major in Literature and Religious Studies, after which he lived in Okinawa, Japan for three years. Returning to Egypt in 2004, Ramy established Kotobarabia.com in September 2004, becoming the first Arabic language e-book publishing house. In April 2007, Ramy was awarded Egyptian Young Publisher of the Year by the British Council.
Iain Millar Iain Millar has worked for Quercus since January 2007. He is currently Marketing Manager, working across 3 imprints and covering over 130 titles a year. Iain is also responsible for the Quercus e-book list and a wider digital strategy. His campaign work on Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy was this week shortlisted for a Bookseller Industry Award for Marketing Campaign of the Year.
Stefanie Posavec
Her work can be found online at: www.itsbeenreal.co.uk
Stefanie Posavec was raised in Denver, Colorado, where analyzing the grammatical structure of sentences in high school English class proved to be influential. She moved to London permanently in 2004, and holds a BFA from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, and an MA in Communication Design from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. She spends her free time coming up with new ways to represent text visually for a variety of different projects, exhibitions and people. She works as a book cover designer.
Sophie Rochester Sophie Rochester started her publishing career in 1996 working at 4th Estate and Jonathan Cape before moving to a digital agency in 2000. She was Associate Director at Colman Getty from 2002–2007, working with the Guardian Hay Festival, the Man Booker Prize and the Poetry Archive. She left to set up Arts&Books PR and has just been awarded Arts Council England funding to coordinate a major literary promotion.
Ross Sutherland Ross Sutherland debut poetry collection, Things To Do Before You Leave Town, was published in January this year. Ross is also a member of the poetry collective Aisle16 with whom he runs Homework, an evening of literary miscellany in East London. His one-man poetry/comedy show, The Three Stigmata of Pacman, debuted at the Old Red Lion Theatre in Islington in January 2010.
Kate Wilson Kate joined Faber as Rights Assistant in 1986, from where she moved to Methuen Children’s books as Rights Manager and later Rights Director. At 29 she moved to Macmillan Children’s books, where she led the business through a decade of rapid and profitable growth as MD. In 2004, she moved to Scholastic as Group MD, running book clubs, book fairs, educational and children’s publishing. After a brief period as CEO at Headline, Kate launched her own company, Nosy Crow, publishing children’s books and apps, in February 2010.
Emma Young Emma graduated with a degree in English in 2005 and worked for two big UK publishers before moving to indie outfit To Hell with Publishing in 2009, after a chance meeting with founder Laurence Johns at a launch party which felt like a meeting of minds. She is currently working on To Hell’s events, publicity and online marketing though there’s a lot of crossover (dressing up as a cuckoo; researching cheese truckles and so on) in a small company like theirs.
PREVIOUS CANONTALES SPEAKERS:
Ashley Lodge • Ellie Killburn Julia Farrington • Alison Baverstock Candice Holdsworth • Richard Bucht Erica Jarnes • Angharad Lewis Rebecca Lee • Raymond Antrobus Reg Wright • Sophie Lewis Tim O’Dell • Allesandro Gallenzi Robert Williams • Andrea Toft Robert Sharp • Peggy Vance Phil Baines • Joshua Idehen Roger Bratchell • Helen Conford Miranda Kearney • Hannah Griffiths Nikesh Shukla • Jon Gray Byng Andrzej Klimowski • Cory Doctorow Peter Collingridge Tom Chivers Joe Dunthorne Richard Charkin
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