Advice from an Editor

What makes an editor fall in love with a story? Join Anne Shone, Executive Editor at Scholastic Canada, for a look at what happens behind the scenes at a publishing company. Anne will share publication success stories and offer advice on how you can give your book its best chance.

Bio:

Anne Shone is the Executive Editor at Scholastic Canada. Anne has worked in book publishing for over twenty years, concentrating on children’s books for the last fifteen. In that time, she has worked with many of Canada’s top children’s book authors and illustrators. Recent highlights include: picture books (Choose Kindness by Ruth Ohi and Nibi’s Water Song by Sunshine Tenasco, illustrated by Chief Lady Bird); novels (Like a Duck by Deborah Kerbel; Waiting Under Water by Riel Nason; and the Hockey Super Six series); middle-grade graphic novel The Good Fight, by Ted Stanton and illustrated by Josh Rosen; and nonfiction (It Seemed Like a Good Idea . . .  by Ted Staunton and Will Staunton), to name just a few.