We love the Fall season, and with the change of weather and colours of leaves comes our new books, ready for you to explore at your leisure. Some of our staff can’t wait for these books to come out, and are excited to share them with you. 

Here's who will be reading what and why.

Are you ready for a history lesson in Canadian publishing? Today we’re talking to someone who’s been in the business for a very long time, Dundurn’s manager of contracts and administrative services, Kirk Howard’s executive assistant, and our colourful resident fashionista, Sheila Douglas.

“I’ve been working for 44 years,” Sheila says, “And exactly half of that I’ve spent in publishing.”

Meet Jenny. She's the Editorial Assistant; the go-to person for all Westside questions. (Editorial is on the west side of the office, but she's also our resident musical theatre aficionado, so...)

Meet Kate, she’s the Marketer here at Dundurn. She’s basically the woman who makes sure marketing’s ideas become a reality. “I work with the marketing team to develop marketing plans and make sure they are executed as expected.”

Definitely the person you want on your side when it comes to planning ahead.

She’s also responsible for organizing and preparing for the many events Dundurn attends every year. And, of course, advertising.

If it seems like managing all of these can be a little like trying to wrangle an octopus at times… it is. But that’s the fun part.

Dundurn Press is officially the first Canadian publisher to incorporate Thema classifications for all book and ebook records, it was announced today. The innovation, which makes the company’s title classifications compatible with booksellers worldwide, will position the Toronto-based publisher more strategically in the global market and help make its titles more visible to readers abroad.

Even in an age where data flows like water in a stream and goes out of date the moment it sits still, it’s still a huge deal when a publishing house receives final approval on a catalogue. The mind-boggling amount of tasks and processes that go into just a single book title – from the author catching the spark, to the designer drafting covers, to the details and minutiae that go into editing, printing, distributing, and marketing a basket of books, there are countless steps along the way.

Dundurn is pleased to announce that it has been longlisted for this year’s Libris Award in the Publisher of the Year category and Ted Barris’s The Great Escape has been longlisted in the Non-Fiction Book of the Year category.

Dundurn has an immediate opening for a Marketing Designer.

The Marketing Designer is in charge of all design and production for the marketing department, including:

·         Print and online advertising

·         Flyers, posters and invites

·         Newsletters

·         Print-on-demand

·         EPUB samples

·         Print and online catalogues

·         Print materials and printing, ARCs and BLADs

The successful candidate will have: