Book Summit 2011 • Tenth Anniversary • June 17, 2011 • Harbourfront Centre • Toronto
Presented by Humber College and the Book and Periodical Council
in association with Authors at Harbourfront Centre
Presented by Humber College and the Book and Periodical Council
in association with Authors at Harbourfront Centre
Speakers
Nicholas Callaway feels he was destined to become an app developer all his life. In August 2010, he founded Callaway Digital Arts with the idea to transform the media landscape with interactive apps for the iPad generation. As the lines between traditional media converge, Callaway Digital Arts is redefining the story, play and “how-to” content experience with products that constitute a new medium. Callaway Digital Arts creates beautiful, engaging apps that leave a lasting impression on users of all ages. Prior to the launch of Callaway Digital Arts, Callaway spent 30 years as a print-based publisher, animation producer (the Miss Spider 3D CGI TV series) and creator of lifestyle consumer products brands as the founder/chairman of Callaway Arts & Entertainment. He has produced some of the most successful and highest-profile illustrated books of our time.
Keith Clayton is director of publishing and creative development for the Random House Publishing Group (RHPG). He oversees the content side of RHPG’s transmedia initiatives, working with authors, partners and the internal creative team to develop and expand intellectual properties for transmedia implementation. The focus of these properties is always on the story and on building worlds that are rich enough to be extended across multiple mediums, creating the story framework from the beginning, instead of waiting for one format to be successful and then chasing that success. RHPG’s transmedia development group was made public in 2010, and the company is preparing to make a few major partnership announcements in 2011.
Darcy Cullen is an acquisitions editor at UBC Press, one of the largest university presses in Canada. A frequent presenter on the topic of electronic books, she has a unique perspective on the publishing process. For the past 10 years, she has been involved in the development of electronic books at UBC Press, first as a production editor overseeing the transition to e-book publishing and more recently as an acquisitions editor, spearheading a new initiative for an online collection of multimedia books. She is interested in what digital books can do for publishing, a question she explores in a chapter of her forthcoming volume, Editors, Scholars, and the Social Dynamics of Text.
Maja Djikic is a post-doctoral fellow at the Desautels Centre for Integrative Thinking (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto) and a lecturer in the Psychology Department (University of Toronto). She studies the effect of arts on personality change, cognitive biases and the modeling of self and others. Her work has been published in Psychological Science; Creativity Research Journal; Journal of Research in Personality; New Ideas in Psychology; Journal of Adult Development; Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts; and others. She is a co-editor of OnFiction, an online magazine on the psychology of fiction.
Cynthia Good is a former president and publisher of Penguin Group (Canada), and has been in the publishing industry for more than twenty-five years. She is currently the director of the Creative Book Publishing Program at Toronto’s Humber College.
Lev Grossman is a senior writer at Time Magazine and the author of the bestselling novel The Magicians. At Time Magazine, Grossman serves as both book critic and lead technology writer. The New York Times called him “one of this country’s smartest and most reliable critics.” His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Entertainment Weekly, Salon, Lingua Franca and The Wall Street Journal, among many others, and he appears as a frequent guest on National Public Radio (NPR). Grossman’s first novel, Warp, was published in 1998; his second, Codex, appeared in 2004 and became an international bestseller. The Magicians, his third, earned a rare combination of popular and critical acclaim – it debuted at number eight on the New York Times bestseller list and was one of the New Yorker’s best books of 2009. It is currently being published in 20 countries. He has degrees in comparative literature from Harvard and Yale Universities and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
A pioneer in the field of digital publishing, Robert Kasher was the founder of Database Directories, one of Canada’s first digital publishers, in 1994 and was an early driving force behind the development of mobile phone publishing through his development of MPS Mobile and Global Reader. Kasher has lectured extensively on the digital publishing at industry forums throughout the world. Currently, he is the business development manager for integrated solutions at BookMasters and a member of the International Digital Publishing Forum’s EPUB 3 Working Group.
Jennifer Knoch is an associate editor at ECW Press. She also runs the popular book blog, The Keepin’ It Real Book Club, which features reviews, videos and special projects, such as the Canada Reads spinoff, Civilians Read.
Ron Hogan is a project manager for Electric Publisher, and formerly
the director of e-marketing strategy for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He
helped create the literary Internet by launching Beatrice.com in 1995.
His most recent book is Getting Right with Tao, a print edition of his
popular online “translation” of the Tao Te Ching into modern
vernacular.
Raymond Mar is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at York University. His research explores the relation between story-processing and social-processing using the methods of neuroscience, personality psychology, social psychology and developmental psychology. His work has been published in the Journal of Research in Personality, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Annual Review of Psychology and Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. He is also the associate editor of the new journal Scientific Studies of Literature and a co-editor of www.onfiction.ca, an online magazine on the psychology of fiction. He lives in Toronto.
Christina McSherry is a Web Producer with Electronic Arts in Burnaby, BC. She is responsible for web integration of console game extensions, product development, customer acquisition and retention strategies, and more. Prior to joining EA, she served as Senior Manager, Online Marketing at Penguin Group Canada where she oversaw all web, mobile, and digital initiatives. She has a broad background encompassing online marketing, ecommerce, digital publishing, and web project management. She has been a guest speaker at Humber College and Ryerson University. In 2009, she was named One To Watch by Marketing Magazine for her online marketing accomplishments.
Mark Medley is the National Post’s books editor and co-editor of its books blog, The Afterword. Previously, he spent three years writing about arts and culture for the newspaper. His writing has also appeared in The Globe and Mail, Taddle Creek, This Magazine, Spacing, The Walrus and Descant. Born and raised in Oshawa, Ontario, he is a graduate of Queen’s University, where he studied English and history, and Ryerson University, where he studied journalism. He lives in Toronto.
Keith Oatley is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, a psychologist and a novelist. His research covers human emotions and the psychology of fiction. He is the author of six books on psychology, including Emotions: A Brief History and the forthcoming Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction. His first novel, The Case of Emily V., won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best first novel. His most recent novel, published by Goose Lane, is Therefore Choose. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and, with four colleagues, publishes the weekly online magazine-blog OnFiction.
Melissa Pitts is an editor and assistant director at UBC Press. She has worked in the Canadian publishing industry for twenty years, initially as sales manager with the Literary Press Group of Canada and then as marketing manager at University of Toronto Press until 2005. Pitts is currently chair of the Book and Periodical Council.
Brett Alexander Savory is the Bram Stoker Award-winning Editor-in-Chief of ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words, Co-publisher of ChiZine Publications, has had nearly 50 short stories published, and has written two novels. In 2006, Necro Publications released his horror-comedy novel, The Distance Travelled. September 2007 saw the release of his dark literary novel, In and Down, through Brindle & Glass. His first short story collection, No Further Messages, was released in November 2007 through Delirium Books. He is now at work on his third novel, Lake of Spaces, Wood of Nothing. He lives in Toronto with his wife, writer/editor/publisher Sandra Kasturi.
Emily Schultz is the co-founder of the online literary journal Joylandmagazine.com. Her books include the short-story collection Black Coffee Night, Joyland: A Novel and a collection of poetry, Songs for the Dancing Chicken. Her novel Heaven Is Small, released from House of Anansi Press in May 2009, was named a finalist for the 2010 Trillium Book Award. Schultz’s next novel, The Blondes, is forthcoming from Doubleday Canada. She has worked in publishing for 12 years and has held the position of editor at Broken Pencil magazine and This Magazine. She is currently a freelance editor for ECW Press and is the editor of the fiction imprint Joyland eBooks.
Nora Young is the host and the creator of Spark, a show about technology and culture that airs nationally on CBC Radio. She lives online at cbc.ca/spark. Young was the founding host of Definitely Not the Opera, where she often discussed topics related to new media and technology. Her work has also appeared online, on television and in print. As a journalist and speaker, Young is interested in how new technology shapes the way we relate to ourselves, each other and to the world around us, a subject she is currently writing a book about. When away from the online world, Young loves teaching yoga and being in nature; she is also an avid cyclist. She lives in Toronto.
Nicholas Callaway feels he was destined to become an app developer all his life. In August 2010, he founded Callaway Digital Arts with the idea to transform the media landscape with interactive apps for the iPad generation. As the lines between traditional media converge, Callaway Digital Arts is redefining the story, play and “how-to” content experience with products that constitute a new medium. Callaway Digital Arts creates beautiful, engaging apps that leave a lasting impression on users of all ages. Prior to the launch of Callaway Digital Arts, Callaway spent 30 years as a print-based publisher, animation producer (the Miss Spider 3D CGI TV series) and creator of lifestyle consumer products brands as the founder/chairman of Callaway Arts & Entertainment. He has produced some of the most successful and highest-profile illustrated books of our time.
Keith Clayton is director of publishing and creative development for the Random House Publishing Group (RHPG). He oversees the content side of RHPG’s transmedia initiatives, working with authors, partners and the internal creative team to develop and expand intellectual properties for transmedia implementation. The focus of these properties is always on the story and on building worlds that are rich enough to be extended across multiple mediums, creating the story framework from the beginning, instead of waiting for one format to be successful and then chasing that success. RHPG’s transmedia development group was made public in 2010, and the company is preparing to make a few major partnership announcements in 2011.
Darcy Cullen is an acquisitions editor at UBC Press, one of the largest university presses in Canada. A frequent presenter on the topic of electronic books, she has a unique perspective on the publishing process. For the past 10 years, she has been involved in the development of electronic books at UBC Press, first as a production editor overseeing the transition to e-book publishing and more recently as an acquisitions editor, spearheading a new initiative for an online collection of multimedia books. She is interested in what digital books can do for publishing, a question she explores in a chapter of her forthcoming volume, Editors, Scholars, and the Social Dynamics of Text.
Maja Djikic is a post-doctoral fellow at the Desautels Centre for Integrative Thinking (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto) and a lecturer in the Psychology Department (University of Toronto). She studies the effect of arts on personality change, cognitive biases and the modeling of self and others. Her work has been published in Psychological Science; Creativity Research Journal; Journal of Research in Personality; New Ideas in Psychology; Journal of Adult Development; Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts; and others. She is a co-editor of OnFiction, an online magazine on the psychology of fiction.
Cynthia Good is a former president and publisher of Penguin Group (Canada), and has been in the publishing industry for more than twenty-five years. She is currently the director of the Creative Book Publishing Program at Toronto’s Humber College.
Lev Grossman is a senior writer at Time Magazine and the author of the bestselling novel The Magicians. At Time Magazine, Grossman serves as both book critic and lead technology writer. The New York Times called him “one of this country’s smartest and most reliable critics.” His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Entertainment Weekly, Salon, Lingua Franca and The Wall Street Journal, among many others, and he appears as a frequent guest on National Public Radio (NPR). Grossman’s first novel, Warp, was published in 1998; his second, Codex, appeared in 2004 and became an international bestseller. The Magicians, his third, earned a rare combination of popular and critical acclaim – it debuted at number eight on the New York Times bestseller list and was one of the New Yorker’s best books of 2009. It is currently being published in 20 countries. He has degrees in comparative literature from Harvard and Yale Universities and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
A pioneer in the field of digital publishing, Robert Kasher was the founder of Database Directories, one of Canada’s first digital publishers, in 1994 and was an early driving force behind the development of mobile phone publishing through his development of MPS Mobile and Global Reader. Kasher has lectured extensively on the digital publishing at industry forums throughout the world. Currently, he is the business development manager for integrated solutions at BookMasters and a member of the International Digital Publishing Forum’s EPUB 3 Working Group.
Jennifer Knoch is an associate editor at ECW Press. She also runs the popular book blog, The Keepin’ It Real Book Club, which features reviews, videos and special projects, such as the Canada Reads spinoff, Civilians Read.
Ron Hogan is a project manager for Electric Publisher, and formerly
the director of e-marketing strategy for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He
helped create the literary Internet by launching Beatrice.com in 1995.
His most recent book is Getting Right with Tao, a print edition of his
popular online “translation” of the Tao Te Ching into modern
vernacular.
Raymond Mar is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at York University. His research explores the relation between story-processing and social-processing using the methods of neuroscience, personality psychology, social psychology and developmental psychology. His work has been published in the Journal of Research in Personality, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Annual Review of Psychology and Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. He is also the associate editor of the new journal Scientific Studies of Literature and a co-editor of www.onfiction.ca, an online magazine on the psychology of fiction. He lives in Toronto.
Christina McSherry is a Web Producer with Electronic Arts in Burnaby, BC. She is responsible for web integration of console game extensions, product development, customer acquisition and retention strategies, and more. Prior to joining EA, she served as Senior Manager, Online Marketing at Penguin Group Canada where she oversaw all web, mobile, and digital initiatives. She has a broad background encompassing online marketing, ecommerce, digital publishing, and web project management. She has been a guest speaker at Humber College and Ryerson University. In 2009, she was named One To Watch by Marketing Magazine for her online marketing accomplishments.
Mark Medley is the National Post’s books editor and co-editor of its books blog, The Afterword. Previously, he spent three years writing about arts and culture for the newspaper. His writing has also appeared in The Globe and Mail, Taddle Creek, This Magazine, Spacing, The Walrus and Descant. Born and raised in Oshawa, Ontario, he is a graduate of Queen’s University, where he studied English and history, and Ryerson University, where he studied journalism. He lives in Toronto.
Keith Oatley is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, a psychologist and a novelist. His research covers human emotions and the psychology of fiction. He is the author of six books on psychology, including Emotions: A Brief History and the forthcoming Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction. His first novel, The Case of Emily V., won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best first novel. His most recent novel, published by Goose Lane, is Therefore Choose. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and, with four colleagues, publishes the weekly online magazine-blog OnFiction.
Melissa Pitts is an editor and assistant director at UBC Press. She has worked in the Canadian publishing industry for twenty years, initially as sales manager with the Literary Press Group of Canada and then as marketing manager at University of Toronto Press until 2005. Pitts is currently chair of the Book and Periodical Council.
Brett Alexander Savory is the Bram Stoker Award-winning Editor-in-Chief of ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words, Co-publisher of ChiZine Publications, has had nearly 50 short stories published, and has written two novels. In 2006, Necro Publications released his horror-comedy novel, The Distance Travelled. September 2007 saw the release of his dark literary novel, In and Down, through Brindle & Glass. His first short story collection, No Further Messages, was released in November 2007 through Delirium Books. He is now at work on his third novel, Lake of Spaces, Wood of Nothing. He lives in Toronto with his wife, writer/editor/publisher Sandra Kasturi.
Emily Schultz is the co-founder of the online literary journal Joylandmagazine.com. Her books include the short-story collection Black Coffee Night, Joyland: A Novel and a collection of poetry, Songs for the Dancing Chicken. Her novel Heaven Is Small, released from House of Anansi Press in May 2009, was named a finalist for the 2010 Trillium Book Award. Schultz’s next novel, The Blondes, is forthcoming from Doubleday Canada. She has worked in publishing for 12 years and has held the position of editor at Broken Pencil magazine and This Magazine. She is currently a freelance editor for ECW Press and is the editor of the fiction imprint Joyland eBooks.
Nora Young is the host and the creator of Spark, a show about technology and culture that airs nationally on CBC Radio. She lives online at cbc.ca/spark. Young was the founding host of Definitely Not the Opera, where she often discussed topics related to new media and technology. Her work has also appeared online, on television and in print. As a journalist and speaker, Young is interested in how new technology shapes the way we relate to ourselves, each other and to the world around us, a subject she is currently writing a book about. When away from the online world, Young loves teaching yoga and being in nature; she is also an avid cyclist. She lives in Toronto.
