Books on the Radio : Always in Beta
Books on the Radio is a radio show, website, podcast and social media experiment that investigates books, writers and other creative people who are involved in the changing processes across the book publishing landscape.
It’s a platform for new voices to be heard, new relationships to be developed and for creative projects to be launched.
The radio show is hosted by Sean Cranbury and is broadcast every Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 on CJSF 90.1 FM, Simon Fraser University’s independent radio station.
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SEAN CRANBURY is the host of Books on the Radio and co-organizer of the W2 Real Vancouver Writers’ Series, the Advent Book Blog and BookCamp Vancouver among other things. Sean has been in the book trade since ’89 as a bookseller, events coordinator, marketer and managing editor. He is currently on Faculty at the Simon Fraser Summer Publishing Immersion Program. He will again be speaking on Digital Rights Management. Sean speaks publicly on how organizations can use social networking tools to build communities, improve communication, increase collaboration and broaden product awareness. He has spoken on topics such as Copyright in the Digital Age as well as Digital Rights Management vs the Inevitability of Free Content at Simon Fraser University. His 48 Hour Interview with Hugh McGuire entitled the Future of Publishing was commissioned by Open Book: Toronto and was picked up, discussed and debated by several influential technology and publishing websites including the O’Reilly Radar. For a fun look at Sean’s ‘True Personality’ check out his answers to Open Book Toronto’s Proust Questionnaire. Sean lives in east Vancouver. Find Sean online: TWITTER |
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STEFFANI CAMERON After a decade editing text for the film industry, Steffani is a writer and editor for hire while continuing to push buttons and issues on both her blog and Twitter. Vancouver-born and raised, Steff’s life has long been word-wrapped, so to speak. Packing a journalism degree, and a survivor of SFU’s grueling Summer Book Publishing Workshop, she’s worked in bookstores and libraries over the years, and looks forward to contributing to BoTR as she records her struggle to rekindle a love of reading. |
ANNMARIE MACKINNON has been a communicator in one form or another for just about her entire life. (In fact, her mother even says her first words, “Everyone, please calm down,” were uttered shortly after her birth.) She is the writer of food articles, children’s books, websites, newsletters, and pretty much anything else that needs writing. She has also worked in book publishing in a variety of capacities-from indentured slush pile culler, to authorial pimp, to managing editrix-and on books ranging in subject matter from cooking, natural history, art, biography, children’s non-fiction, and adult fiction (fiction for grown-ups, not “adult” fiction). She would prefer it if you did not chew loudly or use the phrase “you should” around her. |
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SHAZIA HAFIZ RAMJI had every intention of trying to write an original, interesting biography. But her muse has gone to take a piss. Therefore, all she can tell you about herself is that she is currently the president of SFU’s High Altitude Poetry Club, has had poetry published in Ampersand and music reviews published in Port City Lights Magazine. |
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ABIGAIL VINT has lived on three continents and travelled across five. She’s also worked as a server, a journalist, a book publicist and an ESL teacher. When not dreaming about her next adventure, you’re most likely to find her with her nose in a book or wandering the aisles of an independent bookstore. An enthusiasm for all things social, she’s become an avid fan of social media and never leaves home without her touch screen smartphone. Her day job as a technical writer keeps up to date with the most recent trends in gadgetry and technology. |
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ANDREW WILMOT is a writer, editor and painter. Raised in White Rock, British Columbia, Andrew has been involved in the arts, culture and publishing communities across Canada for more than a decade, working for such respected companies as Drawn & Quarterly Publishing in Montreal and Douglas and McIntyre in Vancouver. He holds a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts and a Masters degree in Publishing, both from Simon Fraser University. Currently he lives and works in Edmonton, Alberta, as the Production and Marketing Coordinator for NeWest Press. Andrew wanted to help with BOTR because he lives and breathes writing. In his own words: “I’ve written short stories, novels, novellas, graphica and a film script, and I have a tremendous love for both the Canadian and international literary scenes. I believe, with my skills and obsessions, that I have a great deal to offer BotR. More importantly, I know there’s so much more that can be done to strengthen and promote the literature of the world in the face of what is an epoch of incredible-and rapid-change.” His favourite author is a three-way tie between Dostoevsky, Haruki Murakami, and James Ellroy (with a little Paul Auster, Cory Doctorow and E.L. Doctorow thrown in for good measure). |
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