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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

1st half

1 Emma Young (To Hell With Publishing)

2 Iain Millar (Marketing Manager, Quercus)

3 Trâm-Anh Doan (Paperbacks Editor, Bloomsbury)

4 Dylan Calder (Director, StarLit festival)

5 James Bridle (jamesbridle.com)

6 Ross Sutherland (Poet, Aisle 16)

interval (20 mins)

2nd half

7 Ben Hammersley (Editor at Large, WIRED UK)

8 Stefanie Posavec (Cover Designer, Penguin & itsbeenreal)

9 Ramy Habeeb (Director, co-founder Kotobarabia)

10 Sophie Rochester (Content Editor, Man Booker Prize)

11 Kate Wilson (Managing Director, Nosy Crow)

12 John Grindrod (Campaigns Manager, Faber & Faber)

James Bridle James Bridle is a publisher, writer and artist

based in London. His work includes experimental

and electronic publishing, film-making, story-

telling, 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.

http://shorttermmemoryloss.com

John Grindrod John Grindrod has worked in bookselling and

publishing from the age of 16, starting out in

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 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’.

Blog: http://benhammersley.com

Product: http://startbudding.com

Magazine: www.wired.co.uk

Agency: www.six-creative.com

Twitter: @benhammersley

Ramy Habeeb 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.

www.kotobarabia.com

r.habeeb@kotobarabia.com

Twitter: @Grindrod

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 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.

Her work can be found online

at: www.itsbeenreal.co.uk

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 cross-

over (dressing up as a cuckoo; researching cheese

truckles and so on) in a small company like theirs.

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TWEET THE ORGANISERS Jon Slack – @jonslackDoug Wallace – @twittizenkane

CONTACT info@canontales.com

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