BOB ACKLES (1939-2008)
President and CEO BC Lions Football Club, author
The Water Boy~From the Sidelines to the Owner’s Box: Inside the CFL, the XFL, and the NFL (with Ian Mulgrew), John Wiley (Canada) 2007
RICK ANTONSON
(Former), President & CEO Tourism Vancouver
Headhunting for Ghosts: A Trek to Cross Papua New Guinea, Skyhorse NYC, Fall 2019
Full Moon Over Noah’s Ark: An Odyssey to Mount Ararat, Skyhorse Publishing (North America) Spring 2016
Route 66 Still Kicks: Driving America’s Main Street, Skyhorse Publishing (North America) 2012
To Timbuktu for a Haircut: A Journey through West Africa, Skyhorse Publishing (North America) 2013
WILLIAM I. ATKINSON
Science and technology features writer, author and speculative science fiction novelist
Tommy: A Memoir about My Father, ECW Press (Canada) 2012
Nanocosm: The Big Change That’s Coming From the Very Small, Viking (Canada); Amacom (USA), 2003 hardcover, 2004 paperback.
Nominated for Science in Society Award (presented by the Cdn Science Writers Association)
Prototype: A Primer For High Technology Success in the 2000s, Thomas Allen Publishers (Canada) 2001. Nominated for National Business Book Award.
LAUREN BACON & EMIRA MEARS
Authors, internet entrepreneurs
The Boss of You: Everything a Woman Needs to Know to Start, Run, and Maintain Her Own Business, Seal Books (USA) 2008
BEVERLY BEHAN
Author, corporate governance expert, BusinessWeek.com columnist
Great Companies Deserve Great Boards: A CEO’s Guide to the Boardroom, Palgrave Macmillan (USA)2011
Jumping Ship: How to Navigate Your Way to a More Satisfying Job or Career, Stoddart (Canada) 1999
Building Better Boards: A Blueprint for Effective Governance (co-authored with David and Mark Nadler), Jossey-Bass (USA) 2005
EVELYN N. BERTHRONG
Author, art historian, curator and expert on East Asian art
What Would Confucius Do? Wisdom and Advice on Achieving Success and Getting Along with Others, Marlowe & Company (USA) 2005; Editura Dharana (Romania)
BILL BISHOP
Author, CEO Bishop Information Group, Toronto
Dancing with Robots: The 28 Rules for Success in the Age of AI and Automation, Dundurn (Canada) 2022
The Strategic Enterprise: Growing Your Business for the 21st Century, Korean rights sold to Appleseed Books (Seoul) 2020
Trump-Proof Your Business: 12 Strategies to Protect Your Business under the Trump Administration, (Create Space, USA) 2017
The New Factory Thinker: Surviving and Succeeding in a Marketplace Disrupted by Technology, 2015
Going to the Net: Winning the Psychological Game of Tennis (and Life), self-published, 2014
Beyond Basketballs: the New Revolutionary Way to Build a Successful Business in Today’s Post-Product World, iUniverse, 2010
The Problem With Penguins: Stand Out in a Crowded Marketplace by Packaging Your Big Idea, MorningStar (China); SnowFox Books (Korea) 2016
How to Sell a Lobster: The Money-Making Secrets of a Streetwise Entrepreneur, Key Porter (Canada) 2006; Sunmark (Japan); BookSea (Korea); Wisdom & Knowledge Publishing (Taiwan); Infinity Publishing (India/Pakistan); Potpurri Publishers (Russia)
BRENDAN BRAZIER
Author, Canadian Ultra-Marathon Champion
Thrive Diet: 10th Anniversary Edition; (Penguin Canada) 2017, Illuminatio Publishing (Poland) 2018
The Thrive Cookbook, Penguin (Canada) 2014; Da Capo LifeLong Books (USA) 2014; Narayana Verlag GmbH (Germany); Sonda Publishers (Italy) 2014; Illuminatio Publishing (Poland) 2018
Whole Foods to Thrive, Penguin (Canada) 2011; Da Capo LifeLong Books (USA) 2011; Polish rights sold to Vevante Publishers (Poland)
Thrive Fitness, Penguin (Canada) 2009; Da Capo LifeLong Books (USA) 2010; Narayana Verlag GmbH (Germany) 2014
The Thrive Diet: The Whole Food Way to Losing Weight, Reducing Stress and Staying Healthy for Life, Penguin (Canada) 2007; Da Capo Lifelong Books (USA) 2008; Narayana Verlag GmbH (Germany) 2014; Mlada Fronta Publishers (Czech Republic) 2014
JENNIFER BROWNE
Author
Happy Healthy Gut: The Natural Diet Solution to Curing IBS and Other Chronic Digestive Disorders, Skyhorse Publishing (USA) 2014
Vegetarian Comfort Foods: The Happy Healthy Gut Guide to Delicious Plant-Based Cooking, Skyhorse Publishing (North America) 2015
DR CARIN BONDAR
Biologist, television personality and host, author
Wild Mom: Motherhood & the Animal Kingdom, (Pegasus Books, USA) April 2018
Wild Sex the Science Behind Mating & the Animal Kingdom, (Pegasus Books, USA, Orion, UK) 2017
JOHN CHERRINGTON
Author, lawyer
Walking to Camelot: A Pilgrimage through the Heart of Rural England, Figure 1 Publishing (Canada) 2016
Previous: Mission on the Fraser (1974), Mitchell Press; The Fraser Valley: A History (1992), Harbour Publishing; and Vancouver at the Dawn (1997), Harbour Publishing (First Runner-Up for the City of Vancouver annual book prize)
MICHAEL CLARKSON
Award-winning investigative journalist, author
The Poltergeist Phenomenon: An In-Depth Investigation into Floating Beds, Smashing Glass, and Other Unexplained Disturbances, Career Press (USA) 2011
The Secret Life of Glenn Gould: A Genius in Love, ECW Press (Canada); Michi Suppan (Japan) 2010
When Beds Float: Examining the Poltergeist Enigma, Key Porter (Canada) 2005; Firefly (USA) 2006
Quick Fixes for Everyday Fears: How to Manage Everything from Fear of Change to Fear of Flying, Key Porter (Canada) 2004; Avalon (USA) 2004; Documentary Rights Sienna Films (Toronto)
Pressure Golf: Overcoming Choking and Frustration, Raincoast (Canada) 2003
Intelligent Fear: How to Make Fear Work for You, Key Porter (Canada) 2002; Marlowe & Co (USA) 2003; Paidos (Spain) 2003; Edizioni (Italy) 2003; Documentary Rights Sienna Films (Toronto)
ELEANOR MCCALLIE COOPER & WILLIAM LIU (1941-2010) co-authors;
Director of interpretation and translation program (ret), Simon Fraser University, Canada
Grace: An American Woman in China 1934-1974, Soho Press (USA) 2003, paperback 2004
PAUL & PHILIPPE DIOGUARDI
Authors, tax lawyers; former Tax Counsel Canadian Federal Department of Justice
Never Smile at a Crocodile: Tales of a Tax Traveller, Brilliant Idea Books (Canada) 2014
The TaxMan is Watching: What Every Canadian Taxpayer Needs to Know and Fear, HarperCollins (Canada) 2008
Tax Amnesty: Avoiding the Tax Trap, (self-published) 2004
DAVID DYMENT
Author, professor, media commentator, former senior advisor at Foreign Affairs
Doing the Continental: A New Canadian-American Relationship, Dundurn (Canada) 2010
MARK FEDERMAN
PhD Adult Education and Counselling Psychology, University of Toronto
Co-author (with Derrick de Kerckhove) of McLuhan for Managers: New Tools for New Thinking, Viking (Canada) 2003
Work in Progress : The Reinvention Project: Change your story, Change your life
JON GELBER
Physician, author, media commentator
The Ultimate Guide to Preventing and Treating MMA Injuries, ECW Press (Canada) 2016
DON GENOVA
Author, broadcaster, food reviewer, travel writer
Food Artisans of Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, Touchwood Editions (Canada) 2014
EDWARD GOODFELLOW
Author, Portfolio Manager at PI Financial Corp, Faculty Instructor Royal Roads College, Victoria BC
SIX BUCKETS: A Simple and Intelligent Portfolio Management Plan, Brilliant Idea Books (Canada) 2020
CHARLES HANNA
Author, Chairman & CEO Brains II
Higher: Awaken to a More Fulfilling Life, Figure 1 Publishing (Canada) 2016
JIM HARRIS
Author, speaker, former national leader Green Party
Blindsided: How to Spot the Next Breakthrough That Will Change Your Business Forever, Capstone (John Wiley UK) 2002
The Learning Paradox: Gaining Success & Security in a World of Change, Macmillan (Canada) 1998; Capstone (John Wiley UK) 2002
ROGER HASKETT
Entrepreneur/speaker
The Me You Want to Be: Rogers Rules for a Bigger, Better, More Powerful You, Brilliant Idea Books (Canada) 2018
DON HAUKA & SALIM JIWA
Author, television writer, reporter; investigative reporter Province newspaper, ABC-TV News, author
Margin Of Terror: A Reporter’s Twenty-Year Odyssey Covering the Tragedies of the Air India Bombing, Key Porter (Canada) 2006
MARK HENICK
National spokesperson for the nation-wide Faces of Mental Illness campaign, Program Manager for Mental Health Works, a CMHA social enterprise, TEDx talk on suicide is among the 50 most watched in the world
So-Called Normal: A Memoir of Family, Depression and Resilience, Harper Collins 2021
RON HIRA & ANDY HIRA
Professor, Public Policy, Rochester Institute of Technology; Associate Professor, Political Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Outsourcing America: The True Cost of Shipping Jobs Overseas and What Can be Done about It, Amacom (USA) 2005; reissued paperback 2007
DAVID JOHNSTON
His Excellency Rt. Honourable Governor-General
The Idea of Canada: Letters to a Nation, McClelland & Stewart/Signal (Canada); Les Éditions La Presse (Canada, French language) 2016
KEN KARPOFF
High performance consultant, Olympic athlete coach, Olympian 1988 Winter Games
Head Games: Lessons Learned from the Olympics, Brilliant Idea Books (Canada) 2017
LAURA-JANE KOERS
Author, blogger of TheRawtarian.com
Cook Lively! 100 Quick and Easy Recipes for High Energy, Glowing Skin, and Vibrant Living, Hachette/Da Capo (USA) 2017
LU LEE KOMBE
Novelist, Freeing Shadows historical fiction, and Take Me to the Deepest Blue, a modern-day mermaid story.
Work in progress: Last Seat on a Safari: A Memoir
ANDRÉ KUKLA (1942-2023)
Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
Mental Traps, Doubleday (Canada) 2006; Alpina Publishers (Russia); Editora Gente (Portugal); Aykiri Publishers (Turkey); Planeta deAgostini (Spain); Ponte alle Grazie, an imprint of Gruppo Editoriale Mauri Spagnol (Italy); Tinh Van (Vietnam)
MICHAEL DAVID KWAN (1934-2001)
playwright, translator, author
Things That Should Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China, MacFarlane, Walter & Ross (Canada); Soho Press (USA); Mainstream Publishers (UK); Harper Collins (Australia) 2001; re-issued by Waveland Press (USA) 2012; Winner of 2000 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize for non-fiction
The Chinese Story-Teller’s Book, Tuttle Publishing (USA) 2001
NICOLE LETOURNEAU
Professor of Nursing at the University of Calgary; Principal Investigator for the CHILD Studies program at the University of New Brunswick; Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation’s Chair in Parent-Infant Health
What Kind of Parent am I? Dundurn (Canada) 2017
Scientific Parenting: What Science Reveals about Parents’ Influence on Who We Become, Dundurn (Canada) 2014
RICHARD LITTLEMORE
Author, journalist, speechwriter, and ghostwriter. Has won numerous regional and national awards for magazine writing, and his co-authored Climate Cover-up was named Best Book at the International Green Book Festival in 2010
Work in progress: Better Than Hope: Building Strength for the Fight Against Climate Change
Previous Books: Building Community: Defining, Designing, Developing UniverCity (with Gordon Harris), Ecotone Publishing 2018; Fight for Beauty, 2017; The Living City (with Ian Gillespie) 2018; Climate Cover-up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming (with James Hoggan) Greystone Books 2010; Do the Right Thing (with James Hoggan), Capital Books 2009; Nemiah, 2004 – David Suzuki Foundation; Climate Change, 1996 – David Suzuki, Foundation; The Ekati Diamond Mine, 1996 – BHP, Howe Sounds, 1995 – Bowen Island Arts Council
DORENDA McNEIL
Author, senior public relations executive
Virtually Perfect Business Etiquette: Workplace Tips for the Digital Generation, Brilliant Idea Books (Canada) 2015
JONATHAN MANTHORPE
foreign newspaper correspondent and international affairs columnist Vancouver Sun
Forbidden Nation: A History of Taiwan, Palgrave Macmillan (USA); HB Fenn (Canada) 2005
CELIA MILNE
Freelance journalist, feature writer
Work in progress: Skinny-dipping with Rattlesnakes: My journey to the Heart of an Island
IAN MULGREW
Journalist, screenwriter, columnist, author
The Water Boy~From the Sidelines to the Owner’s Box: Inside the CFL, the XFL, and the NFL (with Bob Ackles), John Wiley (Canada) 2007
Bud Inc: The Business of the Marijuana Industry, Random House (Canada) 2005; Nominated for National Business Book Award
Amazon Extreme: Three Men, a Raft, and the World’s Most Dangerous River (with Colin Angus), Stoddart (Canada) 2001; Doubleday (Canada); Broadway Books (USA) 2002
Who Killed Cindy James? (non-fiction) Seal (Canada) 1992; ~ Final Payoff: The True Cost of Convicting Clifford Robert Olson, Seal (Canada) 1990; ~ Unholy Terror: The Sikhs and International Terrorism, Key Porter Books (Canada) 1986
ANDREW PEACOCK
Author, retired veterinarian
Creatures of the Rock: Animal Tales from a Newfoundland Vet, Doubleday (Canada) 2014
Optioned to Marble Media (Toronto)
MARLI RUSEN
Labour, employment and human rights lawyer, speaker
Walking on Eggshells: A Practical Guide to Resolving Stressful Conflict – At Work and Home, Brilliant Idea Books (Canada) 2022
The Mirror Method Workbook, Brilliant Idea Books (Canada) 2018
The Mirror Method: How to Build Productive Teams by Ending Workplace Dysfunction, Brilliant Idea Books (Canada) 2016
MAG RUFFMAN
Television host/star of Anything I Can Do (PBS), nationally syndicated columnist of ToolGirl
We’re All in This Together (co-author with Steve Smith), ToolGirl Press (Canada) 2008
How Hard Can It Be? ToolGirl’s Favourite Repairs and Projects, McClelland & Stewart (Canada) 2003; Beyond Words Publishing (USA) 2005
WILLIAM SAMPSON (1960-2012)
Canadian businessman—arrested, imprisoned, and tortured in Saudi Arabia for 33 months
Confessions of an Innocent Man: Torture and Survival in a Saudi Prison, McClelland & Stewart (World Rights) 2005; documentary film Paperny Films (Vancouver) 2008
MARTHA PIPER AND INDIRA SAMARASEKERA
Former President and Vice-Chancellor’s of two of Canada’s largest research universities, the University of British Columbia and the University of Alberta
Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First, ECW Press 2021, Recorded Media (audio)
MARTINA SCHOLTENS
Canadian family physician specializing in refugee health care
Your Heart Is the Size of Your Fist: A Doctor Reflects on Ten Years at a Refugee Clinic, Touchwood Editions (Canada) 2017
ELLEN SCHWARTZ
Mother, speaker, elementary school teacher
Without One Word Spoken: 18 Lessons from Jacob, Brilliant Idea Books (Canada) 2016
Seven Lessons from Jacob: A Mother’s Journey, Key Porter (Canada) 2006
REVA SETH
Author, lawyer, journalist, board member The Trudeau Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies—The Munk Centre, University of Toronto
Related: Interview with Reva Seth
The MomShift: Finding the Opportunity in Maternity, Random House Canada 2014
First Comes Marriage: Modern Relationship Advice from the Wisdom of Arranged Marriages, Simon & Schuster 2008
RON SHEWCHUK
Author, public relations consultant, barbecue champion
Barbecue Secrets DELUXE! The Very Best Recipes, Tips & Tricks from a Barbecue Champion, Whitecap Books (Canada) 2009; Éditions AdA Inc. (French Canada) 2010
Planking Secrets: Grilling with Planks for Unbeatable Barbecue Flavor, Whitecap Books (Canada) 2006
Barbecue Secrets: Unbeatable Recipes, Tips & Tricks from a Barbecue Champion, Whitecap Books (Canada) 2004
ROY TANAMI
photographer, author
Angling the World: Ten Essential Adventures in Fly Fishing, Lyons Press (USA) 2009
JENNIFER TURLIUK
Entrepreneur, speaker, author, freelance writer (Forbes authored article “How I Figured Out What to Do with My Life” received over 1 million views; founder and CEO of MakerKids, the first and largest makerspace for kids in the world
NEXT 2.0: How to Figure Out What to do With Your Life, Dundurn (Canada) 2021
