We hope you find this site helpful in your research. It's designed to be simple and quick. This site is a subsidiary of B.C. BookWorld, the quarterly newspaper about books and authors of British Columbia, established in 1987. You can find out more about this publication (distribution to 700 outlets, subscription and ad rates, etc.) at www.bcbookworld.com. For our first twenty years, we didn't publish on the internet, preferring our readers to find us in bookstores and libraries. We are somewhat grudgingly changing with the times.
Siavash Miri of SFU Library engineered this site for us in 2008 after Todd Holbrook laid the technical foundations for our BC Author Bank five years earlier. 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, publisher and year of your recent publication so we can augment your entry. Our email address is bookworld@telus.net.
The staff at B.C. BookWorld created more than 4,500 entries for this site in 2003, and we've continued to expand the database ever since. We act as gatekeepers. We reserve the right to edit or restrict materials. B.C. BookWorld exclusively controls and owns the written contents of this site but we cannot take full responsibility for any errors. Making literary history is a cumulative process. In compiling the site, we are continually correcting inadvertent errors made by cataloguers who came before us. It's logical, given the plethora of dates and odd spellings of names, we'll occasionally present some inaccuracies, too. Authors and/or their publishers are therefore invited to augment entries by providing suggestions for corrections, alterations, as necessary.
www.abcbookworld.com is a public service project to help spread awareness of the literary activity in the Canadian province identified by the government of Canada as having the highest per capita book reading rate in the country. This is not how we make our living; on some days it's an unpaid labour of love, on other days it's a pain in the neck. But mostly it's been a pleasure to download my brain, resurrect some of the contents of bygone issues, share our files with the public and hopefully generate more knowledge of the people who have put the best of themselves into their books.
-- Alan Twigg, publisher, webservant
