Selected Projects
Selected Projects are sorted into Non-Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult Non-Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, and Books in Translation from French. Within those categories, projects are sorted by editorial service: Structural/Substantive editing, Copy/Line Editing, and Indexing.
A complete list of projects is available on request.
NON-FICTION
Substantive/Structural editing:
Eagles, Demons and Empires, Allen Smutylo (Goose Lane Editions, 2018);
Letters to Brian, Sharon Caseburg (Turnstone, 2015).
Parenting Through the Storm: How to Handle the Highs, the Lows, and Everything In-Between, Ann Douglas (HarperCollins, 2014).
Good to Go, Sharon McKay and Kim Zarzour (Penguin, 2008).
Extraordinary Evil: A Brief History of Genocide, Barbara Coloroso (Penguin, 2007)
Just Because It’s Not Wrong Doesn’t Make It Right, Barbara Coloroso (Penguin, 2006).
Wild Places, Wild Hearts, Allen Smutylo (Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery, 2006).
Free Rider: How A Bay Street Whiz Kid Stole and Spent $20 Million, John Lawrence Reynolds (McArthur & Co., 2001).
The War at Home: An Intimate Portrait of Canada’s Poor, Pat Capponi (Penguin, 1998).
Looking In the Mirror, Barbara Turnbull (Toronto Star, 1997).
Robertson Davies: Man of Myth, Judith Skelton Grant (Penguin, 1994).
Strong Medicine: How to Save Canada’s Health Care System, Michael Rachlis (HarperCollins, 1994).
Margaret Atwood’s Power, Shannon Hengen (Second Story Press, 1993).
Vital Choices: Life, Death and the Health Care System, Dr. W. Molloy (Penguin, 1992).
Unholy Orders: Tragedy at Mount Cashel, Michael Harris (Penguin, 1990)
Copy/Line editing:
No More Nice Girls: Gender, Power, and Why It’s Time to Stop Playing By the Rules, Lauren McKean (House of Anansi Press, 2019).
Fit Cities, Karen K. Lee (Penguin Random House, 2019).
Breaking the Ocean: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Reconciliation, Annahid Dashtgaard (House of Anansi Press, 2019).
Me, Myself, They: A Non-Binary Life, Joshua M. Ferguson (House of Anansi Press, 2018).
Early Modern Spectatorship: Essays in the Interpretation of English Culture, Ronald Huebert and David McNeil, eds (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2018).
Victor and Evie: British Aristocrats in Wartime Rideau Hall, Dorothy Anne Phillips (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2017).
The Weekend Effect: The Life-Changing Benefits of Taking Two Days Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork, Katrina Onstad (HarperCollins, 2017).
I Hear She’s a Real Bitch, Jen Agg (Penguin Random House, 2017).
Anthologizing Canadian Literature: Theoretical and Cultural Perspectives, Robert Lecker, General Editor (Wilfrid Laurier University, 2015).
Educating the Imagination: Northrop Frye Past, Present, and Future, Alan Bewell, Neil ten Kortenaar, Germaine Warkentin, eds (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2015).
Visibly Canadian: Imaging Collective Identities in the Canadas, 1820-1910, Karen Stanworth (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2014).
Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase: Contemporary North American Dystopian Literature, Brett Josef Grubisic, Gisele M. Baxter, Tara Lee, eds (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2014).
The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King (Random House, 2012).
Facing the Hunter: Reflections on a Misunderstood Pursuit, David Adams Richards (Random House, 2011).
The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life’s Work at 72, Molly Peacock (McClelland & Stewart, 2010).
Moolala: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things With Their Money, Bruce Sellery (McClelland & Stewart, 2010).
The Ptarmigan’s Dilemma, John Theberge, Mary Theberge (McClelland & Stewart, 2009).
We Know What You’re Thinking, Darrell Bricker and John Wright (HarperCollins, 2009).
The Gift of Wings: The Life of Lucy Maud Montgomery, Mary Henley Rubio (Doubleday, 2008).
Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness, Jeff Warren (Random House, 2007).
Steve Nash: The Making of an MVP, Jeff Rud (Penguin, 2006).
The Acadians, James Laxer (Doubleday, 2006).
Here Be Dragons, Peter C. Newman (McClelland & Stewart, 2004).
Think Big! My Life in Politics, Preston Manning (Penguin, 2002).
Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Einstein’s Brain, Carolyn Abraham (Penguin, 2001).
Canada: A People’s History (McClelland & Stewart, 2001).
Penguin Book of Canadian Jokes, John Robert Colombo (Penguin, 2001).
Can We Be Good Without God?, Robert Buckman (Penguin, 2000).
Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susannah Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill, Charlotte Gray (Penguin, 1999).
Parenting Through Crisis, Barbara Coloroso (Penguin, 1999).
The Girl in the Picture: The Kim Phuc Story, Denise Chong (Penguin, 1999).
Fever: The Dark Mystery of the Bre-X Gold Rush, Jennifer Wells (Penguin, 1998).
Mrs. King: The Life and Times of Isabel Mackenzie King, Charlotte Gray (Penguin, 1997).
Indexing:
Ten Thousand Crossroads: The Path As I Remember It, Balfour Mount (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2020).
Beyond the Finish Line: Images, Evidence, and the History of the Photo-Finish, Jonathan Finn (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2020).
Unveiling the Nation: The Politics of Secularism in France and Quebec, Emily Laxer (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2019).
Minority Languages, National Languages, and Official Language Policies, Gillian Lane-Mercier, Denise Merkle, Jane Koustas, eds (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2018).
The Subtle Knot: Early Modern English Literature and the Birth of Neuroscience, Liane Habinek (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2018).
Victor and Evie: British Aristocrats in Wartime Rideau Hall, Dorothy Anne Phillips (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2017).
The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada: Essential Commentary on Canadian Poetry in English, Louis Dudek and Michael Gnarowski, eds (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2017).
A Catholic Philosophy of Education: The Church and Two Philosophies, Mario O. D’Souza (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2016).
Subsistence Under Capitalism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, James Murton, Dean Bavington, Carly Dokis, eds (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2016).
Counterfeit Crime: Criminal Profits, Terror Dollars, and Nonsense, R.T. Naylor (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2014).
How to Add Value to Your Home, Scott McGillivray (HarperCollins, 2014).
The Memory Effect: The Remediation of Memory in Literature and Film, Russell J.A. Kilbourn, Eleanor Ty, eds (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013).
The Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature: Indigenous Peoples and the Great Lakes Environment, Karl S. Hele, ed. (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2013).
Oscar Peterson: The Man and His Jazz, Jack Batten (Tundra, 2012).
The Fat Mexican: The Bloody Rise of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club, Alex Caine (Random House, 2009).
Brain Fuel, Joe Schwarcz (Random House, 2008).
Fifteen Days, Christie Blatchford (Random House, 2007).
Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness, Jeff Warren (Random House, 2007).
Extraordinary Evil: A Brief History of Genocide, Barbara Coloroso (Penguin, 2007)
Just Because It’s Not Wrong Doesn’t Make It Right, Barbara Coloroso (Penguin, 2006).
Canada: A People’s History, Don Gillmor, Pierre Turgeon, eds (McClelland & Stewart, 2001).
Lives of Mothers and Daughters, Sheila Munro (McClelland & Stewart, 2001).
Better Living: In Pursuit of Happiness from Plato to Prozac, Mark Kingwell (Penguin, 1998).
Fury: Inside the Life of Theoren Fleury, A. Malcolm (McClelland & Stewart, 1997).
Driving Force: The McLaughlin Family and the Age of the Car, Heather Robertson (McClelland & Stewart, 1995).
Jean Béliveau: My Life in Hockey, Jean Béliveau (McClelland & Stewart, 1994).
Roots of Disunity: A Study of Canadian Political Culture, David Bell (Oxford UP, 1992).
Life After Death, Tom Harpur (McClelland & Stewart, 1991).
True Patriot Love: The Politics of Canadian Nationalism, Sylvia Bashevkin (Oxford UP, 1991).
Brother Twelve: The Incredible Story of Canada’s False Prophet, John Oliphant (McClelland & Stewart, 1991).
FICTION
Substantive/Structural editing:
By Jack Whyte: Yesterday’s Battles (short stories) (unpublished, 2020). From Penguin Books: Guardians Trilogy, series: The Guardian (2014); The Renegade (2012); Forest Laird (2010). Templar Trilogy, series: Order in Chaos (2009); Standard of Honour (2007); Knights of the Black and White (2006). Dream of Eagles, series: Vulcan’s Laughter (renamed The Burning Stone) (2018); The Eagle (2005); Clothar the Frank (2003); Uther (2000); The Sorcerer (1997); The Saxon Shore (1995); The Eagles’ Brood (1994).
Paper Lions, Sohan Koonar (Mawenzi House, 2019).
Karam’s Kismet, Sohan Koonar (unpublished, 2019).
Kraken Bake, Karen Dudley (Turnstone, 2013).
Food for the Gods, Karen Dudley (Turnstone, 2012).
Roads Unravelling, Kathy-Diane Leveille (Sumach Press, 2002).
A Riddle of Roses, Caryl Cude Mullin (Second Story, 1998).
Grizzly Lies, Eileen Coughlan (Sumach, 2005).
Hanging by a Thread, Sue Cliffe (Susan Donaldson) (Sumach Press, 2002).
Copy/Line editing:
By Guy Gavriel Kay (Penguin Books): A Brightness Long Ago (2018); Children of Earth and Sky (2016); River of Stars (2012); Under Heaven (2010); Ysabel (2006); Last Light of the Sun (2003); Sarantine Mosaic series: Sailing to Sarantium (1998), Lord of Emperors (1999); Song for Arbonne (1992).
By Jack Whyte (Penguin Books): Dream of Eagles series: The Skystone (1992); The Singing Sword (1993).
Karam’s Kismet, Sohan Koonar (unpublished, 2019).
The Good German, Dennis Bock (HarperCollins, 2019).
The Diamond House, Dianne Warren (HarperCollins, 2019).
Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club, Megan Gail Coles (House of Anansi Press, 2019).
The Memento, Christy Ann Conlin (Penguin Random House, 2015).
Let Darkness Bury the Dead, Maureen Jennings (Penguin Random House, 2017).
The Rule of Stephens, Timothy Taylor (Penguin Random House, 2017).
We’ll All Be Burnt In Our Beds Some Night, Joel Thomas Hynes (HarperCollins, 2017).
Paper Lions, Sohan Koonar (Mawenzi House, 2017).
The Dead Ground In Between, Maureen Jennings (Penguin Random House, 2016).
Pillars of Light, Jane Johnson (Penguin Random House, 2015).
Birdie, Tracey Lindberg (HarperCollins, 2014).
Practical Jean, Trevor Cole (McClelland & Stewart, 2010).
The Water Man’s Daughter, Emma Ruby-Sachs (McClelland & Stewart, 2010).
Shanghai, David Rotenberg (Penguin, 2007).
The Book of Stanley, Todd Babiak (McClelland & Stewart, 2007).
Remembering the Bones, Frances Itani (HarperCollins, 2007).
Thieves, Janice Kulyk Keefer (Penguin, 2003).
Vinyl Café Diaries, Stuart McLean (Penguin, 2003).
The Dutch Wife, Eric McCormack (Penguin, 2002).
Closer Apart, Gayla Reid (Stoddart, 2002).
Red Plaid Shirt, Diane Schoemperlen (HarperCollins, 2001).
The Broken Record Technique, Lee Henderson (Penguin, 2001).
The Devil’s Cure, Ken Oppel (HarperCollins, 2000).
All the Seas of the World, Gayla Reid (Stoddart, 2000).
Bite the Stars, Eliza Clark (HarperCollins, 1998).
Getting Over Edgar, Joan Barfoot (Key Porter, 1998).
Something About Flying, Joan Barfoot (Key Porter, 1997).
YOUNG ADULT NON-FICTION
Substantive/Structural editing:
By Laura Scandiffio (Annick Press): Digging Deep (2018); Fight to Learn (2015); People Who Said No (2011).
By Gillian Richardson (Annick Press): 10 Routes That Crossed the World (2016); 10 Plants That Shook the World (2012).
By Tanya Lloyd Kyi (Annick Press): DNA Detective (2014); The Lowdown on Denim (2011); 50 Poisonous Questions (2010); 50 Underwear Questions (2010).
It Takes Guts: How Your Body Turns Food Into Fuel (And Poop), Jennifer Gardy (Greystone Books, 2019).
Rewilding, Jane Drake and Ann Love (Annick Press, 2017).
Elliott’s Guide to Dinosaurs, Elliott Seah (Greystone Books, 2016).
The Great Number Rumble (revised edition), Gillian O’Reilly and Cora Lee (Annick Press, Vancouver, 2015).
Duped, Andreas Schroeder (Annick Press, Vancouver, 2011).
The World in a Lunch Box, Claire Eamer (Annick Press, Vancouver, 2010).
Copy/Line editing:
Inside In: X-Ray Photographs of Animals, Jan Paul Schutten, trans. Laura Watkinson (Greystone Books, 2020).
The Art of the Possible: An Everyday Guide to Politics, Edward Keenan (Owlkids, 2014).
Power Up! A Visual Exploration of Energy, S.N. Paleja (Annick Press, Vancouver, 2014).
Escape from Tibet: A True Story, Nick Gray, with Laura Scandiffio (Annick, 2014).
Surviving the Unsurvivable, Tanya Lloyd Kyi (Annick Press, Vancouver, 2013).
Beyond Bullets, Rafal Gerszak and Dawn Hunter (Annick, 2011).
Scribbling Women, Marthe Jocelyn (Tundra, 2010).
Indexing:
It’s a Feudal, Feudal World, Stephen Shapiro and Ross Kinnaird (Annick Press, 2013).
From Then to Now: A Short History of the World, Christopher Moore (Tundra, 2010).
The War to End All Wars: The Story of World War I, Jack Batten (Tundra, 2009).
Say What? The Weird and Mysterious Journey of the English Language, Gena K. Gorrell (Tundra, 2009).
A Thousand Years of Pirates, William Gilkerson (Tundra, 2008).
Silent In An Evil Time: The Brave War of Edith Cavell, Jack Batten (Tundra, 2007).
In the Land of the Jaguar: South America and Its People, Gena K. Gorrell (Tundra, 2007).
William Blake: The Gates of Paradise, Michael Bedard (Tundra, 2006).
You Can’t Read This, Val Ross (Tundra, 2006).
The Matchless Six, Ron Hotchkiss (Tundra, 2005).
Rain Tonight: A Story of Hurricane Hazel, Steve Pitt (Tundra, 2004).
Rapid Ray: The Story of Ray Lewis, John Cooper, (Tundra, 2002).
The Man Who Ran Faster Than Everyone: The Story of Tom Longboat, Jack Batten (Tundra, 2001).
Catching Fire, Gena K. Gorrell (Tundra, 1999).
Pierre Berton Canadian history series (McClelland & Stewart): Attack on Montreal (1995); Steel Across the Shield (1994); Death of Tecumseh (1994); Battle of Lake Erie (1994); Trapped in the Arctic (1993); Dr. Kane of the Arctic Seas (1992); City of Gold (1992); Trails of ’98 (1992); Steel Across the Plains (1992); A Prairie Nightmare (1992); Men in Sheepskin Coats (1992); The Railway Pathfinders (1992); Parry of the Arctic (1991); Jane Franklin’s Obsession (1991); Bonanza Gold (1991); Canada Under Siege (1991); Revenge of the Tribes (1991); Capture of Detroit (1991); Death of Isaac Brock (1991).
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Substantive/Structural editing:
By Eric Walters: Just Deserts (Penguin, 2011); Camp X: Trouble in Paradise (Penguin, 2010); Fly Boy (Penguin, 2010); Elixir (Penguin, 2004); Ricky (HarperCollins, 2002).
The Broken Sky Chronicles, Jason Chabot: Beyond (HarperCollins, 2016); Above (HarperCollins, 2015).
Feast of Light, Ellen Jaffe (Sumach Press, 2006).
Thread of Deceit, Sue Donaldson (Sumach Press, 2002).
Copy/Line editing:
By Sharon McKay: Yara’s Spring (Annick, 2019); Prison Boy (Annick, 2015); End of the Line (Annick, 2014); Enemy Territory (Annick Press, 2012); Thunder Over Kandahar (Annick, 2010); War Brothers (Penguin, 2008); Esther (Penguin, 2004); Charlie Wilcox’s Great War (Penguin, 2002).
By Sharon McKay with Kathy Kacer (Penguin Books): Whispers from the Ghetto; Whispers from the Camps; Whispers in Hiding (2008-09).
By Eric Walters: Fourth Dimension (Penguin Random House, 2017); The Art of Picking Up Girls (And Other Dangerous Things) (Penguin Random House, 2016); Regenesis (Penguin Random House, 2015); Say You Will (Random House, 2015); Camp X: Enigma (Penguin 2013); Power Play (HarperCollins, 2012); End of Days (Random House, 2011); Shaken (Random House, 2010); Beverly Hills Masaai (Random House, 2010); United We Stand (Random House, 2009); Wounded (Penguin, 2009); Shell Shocked (Penguin, 2009); Wave (Random House, 2009); Black and White (Penguin, 2008); Voyageur (Penguin, 2008); Alexandria of Africa (Random House, 2008); The Falls (Penguin, 2008); The Pole (Penguin, 2007); Safe As Houses (Random House, 2007); Sketches (Penguin, 2006); Camp X: Fool’s Gold (Penguin, 2006); We All Fall Down (Doubleday, 2005); Camp 30 (Penguin, 2004); I’ve Got An Idea (HarperCollins, 2004); Run (Penguin, 2003); Royal Ransom (Penguin, 2002); Northern Exposures (Penguin, 2001); Camp X (Penguin, 2001); The Bully Boys (Penguin, 1999); The Hydrofoil Mystery (Penguin, 1998); Stranded (HarperCollins, 1998).
By Eric Walters with Kathy Kacer: Broken Strings (Penguin Random House, 2018).
By Eric Walters with Teresa Toten: The Taming (Random House, 2011).
The Misewa Saga, David A. Robertson: The Great Bear (Penguin Random House, 2020); The Barren Grounds (Penguin Random House, 2019).
Followers, Raziel Reid (Penguin Random House, 2019).
The Boy in Number 4 and the Saxophone of Doom, Kara Kootstra (Penguin Random House, 2016).
Shooter, Caroline Pignat (Tundra, 2015).
Fifteen Lanes, S.J. Laidlaw (Tundra, 2015).
The Night Runner (series), Max Turner: New Order (HarperCollins, 2014); End of Days (HarperCollins, 2010); The Night Runner (HarperCollins, 2008).
Random Acts, Valerie Sherrard (Penguin, 2014).
The Swallow: A Ghost Story, Charis Cotter (Tundra, 2014).
The Show to End All Shows, Cary Fagan (Penguin, 2013).
How to Curse in Hieroglyphics, Lesley Livingston and Jonathan Llyr (Penguin Books, 2013).
The Opposite of Tidy, Carrie Mac (Penguin Books, 2012).
The Whole Truth, Kit Pearson (HarperCollins, 2011).
That Boy Red, Rachna Gilmore (HarperCollins, 2010).
Pluto’s Ghost, Sheree Fitch (Random House, 2010).
Lost Souls of Island X, Rachelle Delaney (HarperCollins, 2010).
Gravity Brings Me Down, Natale Ghent (Random House, 2009).
The Odds Get Even, Natale Ghent (HarperCollins, 2008)
Cry Wolf, Edo van Belkom (Tundra, 2007).
Forget-Me-Not, Barbara Haworth-Attard (HarperCollins, 2005).
The Book of Living and Dying, Natale Ghent (HarperCollins, 2004).
The First Stone, Don Aker (HarperCollins, 2003).
Lesia’s Dream, Laura Langston (HarperCollins, 2003).
Our Canadian Girl series (Penguin Books): 12 titles.
Road to Avonlea series (HarperCollins): 27 titles.
Wind At My Back series (HarperCollins): 4 titles.
BOOKS IN TRANSLATION FROM FRENCH
Copy/Line editing:
By Roch Carrier, translated by Sheila Fischman (Penguin): Prayers of a Young Man (1999); The Lament of Charlie Longsong (1998); Little Man Tornado (1998).
On the Proper Use of Stars, Dominique Fortier, trans. Sheila Fischman (McClelland & Stewart, 2010).
The Nest of Spies, Fabrice de Pierrebourg, Michel Juneau-Katsuye, trans. Ray Conlogue (HarperCollins, 2009).
Years of Fire, Yves Beauchemin, trans. Wayne Grady (McClelland & Stewart, 2006).
Mammals, Pierre Merot, trans. Frank Wynne (Anansi, 2005).
The Immaculate Conception, Gaetan Soucy, trans. Lazer Lederhendler (Anansi, 2005).
Life’s Little Difficulties, France Daigle, trans. Robert Majzels (Anansi, 2003).
Olivo Oliva, Philippe Poloni, trans. David Homel (Stoddart, 1999).
Second Fiddle, Yves Beauchemin, trans. David Homel (Stoddart, 1998).
Aurelien, Clara, Mademoiselle, and the English Lieutenant, Anne Hebert, trans. Sheila Fischman (Anansi, 1996).
Family Secrets: The Dionne Quintuplets’ Own Story, Jean-Yves Soucy, Annette, Cecile and Yvonne Dionne, trans. Kathe Roth (Stoddart, 1995).