Moonshot is a collaboration and Kickstarter success story, being named as one of the Top Canadian Entrepreneurial Crowdfunding Campaigns by the Globe & Mail, and raising over $74,000. This project involved a publisher, an editor, and dozens contributors to bring this vision to life and celebrate indigenous storytelling in many forms. Here are some of the talented […]
Erin Bow is the author of The Scorpion Rules, which received three starred reviews and was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year; the acclaimed Russian-flavored fantasy Plain Kate, which received two starred reviews and was a YALSA Best Book of the Year; and the terrifying YA ghost story Sorrow’s Knot, which received five […]
Sydney Padua is an animator and graphic novelist who can generally be found making giant monsters appear to attack people for movies such as Clash of the Titans and The Jungle Book. She grew up partly in Mexico City, partly in Edmonton, and partly in Narnia. After studying theatre at the University of Alberta she […]
Svetlana Chmakova was born and raised in Russia until the age of 16, when her family emigrated to Canada. She quickly made a name for herself with works like Dramacon, Nightschool, the manga adaptation of James Patterson’s Witch & Wizard, and the webcomic Chasing Rainbows. She graduated from Sheridan College with a three-year Classical Animation […]
Suzanne Sutherland is a writer for kids and teens. Her first novel, When We Were Good, was a finalist for the inaugural Speaker’s Young Authors Award and was selected for the American Library Association’s Rainbow List. She is also the author of Something Wiki and Under the Dusty Moon, a Junior Library Guild selection. She […]
Courtney Summers was born in Belleville, Ontario, in 1986 and currently resides in a small town not far from there. At age 14, she dropped out of high school to pursue her education independently, but in truth, those years were really spent exploring various mediums that would best serve the stories she wanted to tell. […]
Tim Wynne-Jones has written thirty-five books including adult novels, picture books, short story anthologies, middle-grade and young adult novels. His collection of short stories Some of the Kinder Planets won’the Governor General’s Award as well as the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award. His novel The Maestro won Tim his second Governor General’s Award and was short-listed […]
Rui Umezawa is a Toronto storyteller and writer whose works have appeared in the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Descant Magazine and elsewhere. His books include the novel The Truth About Death and Dying, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize for Best First Book (Canada and the Caribbean) and Strange Light Afar; Tales […]
This summer, we have six contests designed to put your creativity on display. There will be one prize awarded in each contest and the winners will receive a very attractive pair of B&O BeoPlay H6 On-Ear Headphones. Watch for these contests coming up this summer: #Bookface Contest (All summer – ends September 2) Bookface involves […]
Ryan North is the author of The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl for Marvel Comics (it’s about a girl with squirrel powers and it’s better than it sounds), the webcomic Dinosaur Comics (it’s the same pictures every day with different words, and it’s better than it sounds too), and the two books To Be or Not To Be and Romeo […]