Donovan Street Press Inc.
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Prior to launching Donovan Street Press Inc., Joe Mahoney worked full-time for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He did that for thirty-five years, which now seems like the blink of an eye.
There, Joe spent a decade making radio plays, working with some of the finest actors, directors, and writers in Canada.
In 2007, Joe left production to join the CBC management team, where he managed broadcast maintenance teams and, eventually, the eastern real estate portfolio. He spent his final year as both Operations Manager (Acting) for Nova Scotia and Regional Property Manager, both of which he loved. He retired from the CBC in 2023 and now focuses his attention on his family, growing Donovan Street Press, and trying (finally!) to get his black belt in Karate.
Joe has also worked as a story editor on multiple radio, television and film projects.
Joe’s debut novel, A Time and a Place, was published on October 1st 2017 by Five Rivers Press. His memoir, a behind-the-scenes glimpse of working at CBC Radio, Adventures in the Radio Trade, was published on August 1st 2023 by Donovan Street Press.
Joe is a member of SF Canada, Canada’s National Association of Speculative Fiction Professionals, and SFWA, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association.
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Jenn deLagran (MBA) is a business and financial analyst with over twenty-four years experience in some of Canada's largest companies. Currently employed by one of Canada’s top financial institutions, Jenn’s experience in business casing and financial modeling is a key asset to the future growth of Donovan Street Press Inc. She has a passion for writing and helping fellow authors achieve their publishing dreams.
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Arleane Ralph is a copy editor and proofreader with mad skills when it comes to seeing where people’s writing style has let them down, where their word choice is dubious, and where they’ve contradicted themselves or relied too heavily on the editorial advice of a well-intentioned friend. She has a great respect for writers who feel they have something to say, and who find the time, courage, and energy to write and research amidst the demands of daily life.
She is an indexer of legal textbooks, which is not as dull as it sounds. In fact, if indexing were a reality TV show, she contends it would be akin to Bering Sea crab fishing, but without the crabs and constant threat of bodily harm.
To her own surprise, Arleane is also a published and university-trained palaeographer, having transcribed all manner of documents from 16th century diaries to 20th century birth records and letters to the speck of a label on the back of a possible Shakespeare portrait.
Arleane lives and works in Ontario. She has two brilliantly spontaneous children and a wise and talented husband, who collaborates with her on her best adventures. She is a camping enthusiast, sings awesome second alto, follows Premier League football, and takes terrible family selfies. She has an uncanny knack for finding lost objects and never hesitates to sing out loud in the car.
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Retired teacher Tom Mahoney grew up on a small family farm in Johnville, New Brunswick. Despite a lack of modern conveniences such as running water and electricity, he wouldn't have had it any other way.
Tom's was a world of natural beauty; of soft and lonely quiet. Life was never dull. His active imagination was nourished by ghosts and demons, intrepid priests, drunken neighbours, redneck bullies, frightened deer, angry bears, wannabe circus dogs, and plenty of shenanigans. From these seeds great stories grew.
Drawing on his own experiences and those of his family — his father was also a gifted storyteller — Tom's humorous and touching tales, spanning decades, brim with colour and authenticity.
Tom received a Cultural Achievement Award from the City of Summerside, PEI for The Deer Yard & Other Stories. One of the stories within, Toby the Dog, was featured on Stuart McLean’s Vinyl Cafe on CBC Radio.
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Erin, who enjoys drawing in her spare time, illustrated the covers for both her grandfather’s book The Deer Yard & Other Stories and her father’s short story collection Other Times & Places.
She lives and works in Ontario.
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Human-shaped, monkey-loving, robot-fighting, pirate-hearted, storytelling junkie, Mark is co-host of our podcast Re-Creative and an award-winning author of satire and speculative fiction. He writes in the genres of science fiction, humorous SF and dark comedy. When not working on the next novel, he pens short stories, squibs and other drivel. (Some pure, and some quite tainted with meaning.)
He is also a prof at Western University, at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, where he teaches bemused students how to create digital products that won’t become self-aware and destroy all humanity.
He does all of these thing while being Canadian and owning cats.
Find his books anywhere you can get them online, or check out his own website.
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Robert Runté, PhD, is Senior Editor with EssentialEdits.ca and SFeditor.ca. He was, for nearly a decade, Senior Editor at Five Rivers Publishing, where he acquired and edited over 30 books, primarily speculative fiction. A retired professor, he has won three Aurora Awards (Canadian SF&F) for his literary criticism; wrote the Canadian speculative fiction entry for the Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada; published the NCF Guide to Canadian Science Fiction; and given over a hundred presentations and workshops at writers’ conferences. He was a founding board member of SFCanada and WordBridge.
He currently reviews for the Ottawa Review of Books and his own short fiction has been published over 90 times in a variety of magazines, literary journals, and anthologies. He is currently working on the novel he started in 1971, but no one (other than Joe Mahoney) expects him to actually finish.