Ignorami
SIB is co-authored by Ryan Paine, Felice Howden and Grammaticus Pain, two young publishing nerds and one curiously angry young man. Felice is cold most of the time and works at a place with computers and books. Ryan works at a small, independent house in a small city in a big country. Gram is unemployed.
We share an interest in challenging our and others’ ideas about the publishing industry, and a passion for youth literature. We attack each other in comments from time to time, but this is done in the same spirit as the two guys who shot each other in the arse with an air rifle when they were drunk.
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Ryan is a writer, editor and book junkie with experience of both extremes of the book industry’s demographic, currently as a book editor at Wakefield Press, and previously as editor of Voiceworks, a Melbourne-based quarterly produced entirely by writers and editors under 25. He also did pro bono marketing for Wet Ink, the magazine of new writing, for a while there – not very long, because he got caught up with Format Collective and had to step down, lest he appear to be milking that cultural seat for another notch on his CV. Now he is running Format Festival’s Academy of Words, in February 2011.
Felice knows Ryan from Voiceworks. She writes the best posts, and does all her own artwork. She works for a pretty big educational publisher (who, by the way, have insaneo awesome ideas about digital publishing) in Britain’s fucking beautiful midlands, after finishing university and fucking off out of Australia, never to return. Well, maybe not never. She’s worked with Birlinn and designed the Polygon web page. Later, she spent an evening stalking her idol Jamie Byng, Canongate publisher, and found it highly satisfying. She is interested in all new technology, ebooks, the way things are changing and the doors that are opening and closing behind and in front with equal measure. This is most certainly NOT her favourite band.
Send us emails and leave comments around the place here – we will probably respond. Ryan likes cows and bicycles and fishing rods and the internet. So does Felice, as it happens.
