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Sybertooth
Sybertooth is a Canadian book publishing company based in Sackville, New Brunswick. They publish fiction, non-fiction, stage plays, and poetry. Some of the authors published by Sybertooth include Leacock medal winner Donald Jack, poet laureate of Sackville, NB Douglas Lochhead, K.V. Johansen, cartoonist Steven Appleby, Leacock medal winner and broadcaster Max Ferguson, Shelagh Rogers, Rae Bridgman, PG Wodehouse scholar Norman Murphy, and Paul Marlowe Paul Marlowe is a Canadian author of historical fiction and science fiction. Much of his historical fiction is connected in some way with the Etheric Explorers Club, a Victorian society devoted to investigating unusual or supernatural phenomen .... External links Sybertooth website Book publishing companies of Canada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Appleby
Steven Appleby (born 27 January 1956) is an absurdist cartoonist, illustrator and artist living in Britain. She is a dual citizen of the UK and Canada. Her humour has been described as “observational or absurd, with a keen sense of the turmoil of fear and obsession that teems beneath the respectable exterior of most of us.” Her work first appeared in the ''New Musical Express'' in 1984 with the '' Rockets Passing Overhead'' comic strip about the character Captain Star, which also appeared in '' The Observer'', ''Zeit Magazin'' (Germany), as well as other newspapers and comics in the UK, Europe and America. Other comic strips followed in many publications including '' The Times'', the ''Sunday Telegraph'' and '' The Guardian''. Appleby’s work has also appeared on album covers, most notably ''Trompe le Monde'' by the Pixies. Her comic strip ''Steven Appleby's Normal Life'' was translated into German and published in '' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'', and also made into a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Lochhead
Douglas Grant Lochhead (pronounced ''Lock''-heed) FRSC (March 25, 1922 – March 15, 2011) was a Canadian poet, academic librarian, bibliographer and university professor who published more than 30 collections of poetry over five decades, from 1959 to 2009. He was a founding member and vice-chairman of the League of Canadian Poets and was elected its first secretary in 1968. He served as president of the Bibliographical Society of Canada (1974–76), and was a member of bibliographical societies in the U.S. and Britain. In 1976, he was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Lochhead's best-known book, ''High Marsh Road'', a collection of 122 short poems chronicling his daily walks across the Tantramar Marshes in southeastern New Brunswick, earned him a nomination for a Governor General's Award in 1980. In 2005, when ''High Marsh Road/La Strada di Tantramar'' was awarded the Carlo Betocchi International Poetry Prize, Lochhead became the first non-Italian writer to wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Jack
Donald Lamont Jack (6 December 1924 – 2 June 2003) was an English and Canadian novelist and playwright. Life Jack was born in Radcliffe, Bury, England and grew up in Britain, attending the well regarded Bury Grammar School and Marr College and later serving in the RAF in World War II (1943–47). After the war he emigrated to Canada in 1951, and became a Canadian citizen in 1964. From 1955 to 1957 he was a scriptwriter for Crawley Films. After 1957 he became a full-time freelance writer. He wrote for the stage, radio, and for television programs such as '' General Motors Theatre'', '' The Unforeseen'', ''Playdate'', ''Hatch's Mill'', '' The Forest Rangers'', and '' On Camera'', but he is most famous for his novels, the ''Bandy Papers'', which recount the humorous adventures of Bartholomew Bandy, a World War I fighter pilot. His play ''The Canvas Barricade'' was the first Canadian play produced at the Stratford Festival of Canada. Other stage plays included ''Exit Muttering' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rae Bridgman
Rae St. Clair Bridgman, a Canadian anthropologist, author and artist, writes and illustrates picture books for young children and is the author/illustrator of The MiddleGate Books, a series of fantasy books for children inspired by the Narcisse Snake Pits of Narcisse, Manitoba -- ''The Serpent’s Spell'' (McNally Robinson Book for Young People finalist 2006), ''Amber Ambrosia,'' ''Fish and Sphinx'' (Speculative Literature Foundation Honourable Mention 2008) and ''Kingdom of Trolls'' (Moonbeam Children's Books Award 2011). The books feature the adventures of young cousins Wil and Sophie who live in the secret, magical city of MiddleGate, beset by the return of an ancient secret society known as the Serpent's Chain. Bridgman is also the author of ''Angel - Homeless in Toronto'' (2016), ''Jimmy Tattoo - Homeless on the Streets of Toronto'' (2016), ''StreetCities: Rehousing the Homeless'' (Broadview Press, 2006) and ''Safe Haven: The Story of a Shelter for Homeless Women'' (Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Marlowe
Paul Marlowe is a Canadian author of historical fiction and science fiction. Much of his historical fiction is connected in some way with the Etheric Explorers Club, a Victorian society devoted to investigating unusual or supernatural phenomena. Published works Radio plays *''The Resident Member'' (2009) ''The Resident Member'' is a 30-minute comedy featuring the voice acting of Gideon Emery, Joe Vaz, Damon Berry, Digby Young, and Christa Schamberger-Young. Novels Series The Wellborn Conspiracy *''Sporeville'' (Sybertooth Incorporated, 2007) . Retrieved 2019-02-01 *''Knights of the Sea'' (2010) Collections *''Ether Frolics: Nine Tales from the Etheric Explorers Club'' (2012) Short stories ...
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Book Publisher
Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newspapers, and magazines. With the advent of digital information systems, the scope has expanded to include electronic publishing such as ebooks, academic journals, micropublishing, websites, blogs, video game publishing, and the like. Publishing may produce private, club, commons or public goods and may be conducted as a commercial, public, social or community activity. The commercial publishing industry ranges from large multinational conglomerates such as Bertelsmann, RELX, Pearson and Thomson Reuters to thousands of small independents. It has various divisions such as trade/retail publishing of fiction and non-fiction, educational publishing (k-12) and academic and scientific publishing. Publishing is also undertaken by governments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sackville, New Brunswick
Sackville is a town in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada. It is home to Mount Allison University, a primarily undergraduate liberal arts university. Historically based on agriculture, shipbuilding, and manufacturing, the economy is now driven by the university and tourism. Initially part of the French colony of Acadia, the settlement became part of the British colony of Nova Scotia in 1755 following the Expulsion of the Acadians. History Pre-European Present-day Sackville is in the Mi’kmaq district of Siknikt (to which the place name Chignecto may be traced), which roughly comprised Cumberland, Westmorland and part of Albert counties. The Mi’kmaq settlement, Goesomaligeg, was on Fort Beausejour Ridge and Tatamalg or Tantama, on the Sackville Ridge. Many regional toponyms are Mi’kmaq including Tidnish, Minudie, Missaguash River, Aboushagan Road, Midgic, Memramcook and Shemogue. A portage connected Beaubassin by way of Westcock and the valley now known as F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Brunswick
New Brunswick (french: Nouveau-Brunswick, , locally ) is one of the thirteen Provinces and territories of Canada, provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime Canada, Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic Canada, Atlantic provinces. It is the only province with both Canadian English, English and Canadian French, French as its official languages. New Brunswick is bordered by Quebec to the north, Nova Scotia to the east, the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to the northeast, the Bay of Fundy to the southeast, and the U.S. state of Maine to the west. New Brunswick is about 83% forested and its northern half is occupied by the Appalachians. The province's climate is continental climate, continental with snowy winters and temperate summers. New Brunswick has a surface area of and 775,610 inhabitants (2021 census). Atypically for Canada, only about half of the population lives in urban areas. New Brunswick's largest cities are Moncton and Saint John, New Brun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Ferguson
Max Ferguson, Order of Canada, OC (February 10, 1924 – March 7, 2013) was a Canadian radio personality and satirist, best known for his long-running radio programs ''Rawhide'' and ''The Max Ferguson Show'' on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Biography Early life Max Ferguson was born on 10 February 1924, in Crook, Durham, England, Durham, England, the second son of William George (George) Ferguson and Isabella Frances (Isabel) née Finnegan. In 1926, with Max barely past his second birthday, the Ferguson family emigrated to Canada, departing from Cobh, Ireland on 22 May aboard the ''Minnedosa'', and arriving in Montreal, Quebec on the 29th. They eventually settled in Ontario. Other than an occasional trip to Ireland, visiting relatives in his mother's birthplace in County Laois (aka County Leix and Queen's County), Ferguson was raised in London, Ontario, and graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a BA in English and French. Career In the sum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelagh Rogers
Shelagh Rogers, OC, is a Canadian broadcast journalist based in British Columbia. She is the host and producer of CBC Radio One's '' The Next Chapter'', and former chancellor of the University of Victoria. Background Rogers grew up in Ottawa, Ontario. Rogers began in broadcasting at CFRC, the campus radio station of Queen's University. She also worked at Kingston, Ontario's CKWS, hosting a country music program while still a student at Queen's. She later went on to produce a daily current affairs TV show and served as the station's late-night weather presenter. Rogers graduated from Queen's University's arts program (B.A., art history) in 1977. Rogers is a member of the Metis nation of Greater Victoria. CBC Radio In 1980, she joined CBC Radio in Ottawa, hosting local current affairs programs and jazz and classical music broadcasts. In 1982, she became host of the national classical concert program ''Mostly Music''. In 1984, she moved to CBC Toronto. In addition to hos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
