We’re thrilled to welcome our new client, Leslie Gavel! Leslie is a former social worker and a Calgary-based freelance writer whose work has appeared in Reader’s Digest, Canadian Living, More, Today’s Parent, Avenue and several North American newspapers, and has been produced for CBC national radio.
We’re thrilled to welcome our new client, Meg Salter! Meg is a meditation teacher and an accredited coach, with thirty years’ experience as a senior business manager and change management consultant. Her new book, Mind Your Life, is a practical guide to incorporating mindfulness into your daily life, customizing a path to suit your style and schedule.
We’re delighted to report that we’ve sold World English rights to Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy, by dog trainer and popular Companion Animal Psychology blogger Zazie Todd, to Greystone Books.
Page Two’s Jesse Finkelstein was featured in a recent article by the CBC, discussing publishing’s ongoing transformations and the shifting perception toward self-publishing. “It’s no longer about the vanity press. This is really about the fact that there are more great book ideas and more opportunities for excellent book execution than there are publishers, so why not join together to make this happen,” Finkelstein said.
We’re delighted to welcome our new client, B.C. Non-Profit Housing Association CEO, Kishone Roy! A former political advisor, Roy sits as Director of Encasa Financial, a mutual fund company owned by the affordable housing sector, and chairs the B.C.
We’re thrilled to announce that Page Two principal Trena White is now representing award-winning investigative journalist Kim Bolan through our alliance with Transatlantic Agency.
Kim Bolan covers gangs and organized crime for Vancouver Sun, where she has worked since 1984.
For a couple of years, adult colouring books were all the rage. Interest in them waned in 2016, and now a fascination with the Danish concept hygge is taking the publishing industry by storm.
We’re delighted to have sold world rights to Lost Feast: A Requiem for Extinct Foods by Canada Research Chair in Food Security and Environment Lenore Newman, examining a series of extinct foods now lost to our insatiable human appetite, and shedding light on which beloved foods we will struggle to protect in the future, to Susan Renouf at ECW Press.
We’re thrilled that Page Two was featured in the Globe and Mail‘s Report on Business this week in an article about professional self-publishing and book publishing innovation. “There’s actually a whole spectrum of ways of getting your book into the right hands, and to us, it’s about publishing strategically,” says Page Two principal Jesse Finkelstein.
As well as being authors, our clients are subject-matter experts, professionals, business leaders, and entrepreneurs. They are interested in publishing well not just for the sake of selling books, but for many other reasons: the dissemination of new ideas; promoting their business and brand; getting the attention of the right customers and stakeholders; to name a few.
December is a great time for reflecting on the year behind us. Here at Page Two, we’re taking a moment to celebrate the incredible books our clients published in 2016—over thirty of them! Several have landed on “Best of 2016” book lists, several have been bestsellers, and several have won or been shortlisted for awards.
We are very happy to share that Sonja Larsen’s Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Revolutionary Girl is the #12 pick on the National Post’s 99 best books list for 2016!
