ABOUT SUBMITTING INFORMATION

If you’re an author who has just published a new book, and you already have an entry on this site, please let us know the title, name of the publisher and the year of your recent publication so we can augment your entry. Price and ISBN are also useful for trade titles. We also welcome current Jpeg author photos as attachments.

If you are an author in British Columbia and you do NOT yet have an entry on this site, please note we accept FACTUAL INFORMATION ONLY. Provide the particulars of your book(s) as outlined in the preceding paragraph, in chronological order of publication. Plus, you can provide two or three factual, biographical paragraphs that include year and place of  birth, and profession(s) if deemed relevant. We don’t care about the names of your cats.

Please do not bother with price and ISBN for e-books.

Again: Non-self-promotional language is required for all submissions. Just the facts, please.

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www.abcbookworld.com is a public service project to help spread awareness of the literary activity in British Columbia, Canada’s province with the highest per capita book reading rate in the country. This service exists primarily because we believe no B.C. author deserves to be “invisibilized.”

We remain grateful to SFU Library’s Lynn Copeland for giving the green light for hosting this reference site–conceived in the same year that Wikipedia was founded, in 2001. We are equally grateful to SFU Library’s Gwen Bird for continuing and improving this vital relationship.

Todd Holbrook of SFU laid the technical foundations for the original B.C. Author Bank. Siavash Miri of SFU Library re-engineered the site in 2008. It was “re-simplified” in 2009 with the assistance of Martin Twigg and Andre Liem. In 2015, it was determined by SFU’s Brian Owen and Mark Jordan that the entire site was outdated technologically and must be transferred to a new WordPress system, mainly for security reasons. Thanks to some generosity from site supporter Yosef Wosk, all the contents of ABCBookWorld were transferred to its current technological format in 2017. In 2021, the site was turned over to a professional webmaster to upgrade the monthly maintenance the site now needs in an era of increasing web hacks.

As far as we know, there is no literary site in the rest of Canada that comes close to the breadth and depth of this one. This free, public reference site is a separately-operated offshoot of B.C. BookWorld, the quarterly newspaper that was established in 1987, and it contains far more information than a newspaper ever could.

The ongoing involvement of Pacific BookWorld News Society has been essential to maintaining our spirits and public service resolve. “ABCBookworld is a huge resource,” said Pacific BookWorld News Society president Howard White. “It is a repository of all the information that has passed through Bookworld’s pages, and much, much more. As such, it is the crowning achievement of the ongoing BookWorld project. The reason it gets so many visits is that anybody searching general BC information gets directed there by the search bots because it is perhaps the largest repository on general BC knowledge freely available online.”

In compiling the site, we are continually correcting inadvertent errors made by those who came before us. It’s logical, given the plethora of dates and odd spellings of names, that we, too–like Wikipedia–will occasionally present some inaccuracies. Making literary history is a cumulative process so we cannot take full responsibility for any errors. We encourage authors and/or their publishers or family representatives to augment entries by providing suggestions for corrections, alterations, as necessary. When an author you know well dies, let us know where, when and how it happened and send along a JPEG headshot if we don’t already have one on the site.

As ABCBookWorld’s creator and gatekeeper, we reserve the right to edit or restrict materials. If anyone doesn’t like the service for any reason, they are welcome to create one of their own.

Our email address is bookworld@telus.net.

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We gratefully acknowledge the ongoing support of:

We would not be able to continue operations without the essential ongoing partnership of Creative BC.