Experienced Professionals Who Listen

I am a professional book editor with more than twenty-five years of experience in the Canadian publishing industry. I’ve held senior editorial positions and worked on a freelance basis for many publishers, including Dundurn, Lorimer, Madison, Firefly, Harlequin, Penguin, Stoddart, and Coach House Press. I’ve edited a wide range of fiction and nonfiction, including books that have won or been shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Prize, the Arthur Ellis Best First Crime Novel Award, the City of Toronto Book Award, and The Canadian Children’s Book Centre Our Choice designation. I am the author of See No Evil, a middle-grade novel published by Orca Books, and a member of Editors Canada, the Editorial Freelancers Association, and CANSCAIP (Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers). MA: University of Toronto. For more information, see my profiles on editors.ca, the-efa.org, CANSCAIP, and LinkedIn.

David Oiye studied English Literature at the University of Toronto and Film Production at Ryerson University before working in theatre in Toronto for more than twenty years. He has worked as a script reader for the Ontario Film Development Corporation and for Canadian Stage. During his time as Artistic Director of Cahoots Theatre Projects and later Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, he worked extensively in play development and has directed more than twenty-five productions, mostly of new work. As a writer, he has contributed articles to two Toronto blogs and has co-written a screenplay for a short film (Just for Fun) and a one-man play (The Drag Queen that Time Forgot). BA: University of Toronto. BAA: Ryerson University.