Services

I am proficient in long-form text design and typesetting. My work emphasizes practicality and readability while complementing the spirit of the text with the page layout.

I began designing publications as a Visual Arts student at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus, and built on this foundation during my graduate studies at Simon Fraser University.

All of my designs are also optimized for a quick and smooth transition from print into ebook formats, including several steps to improve the accessibility of the ebook.

Ebooks

Electronic books are a major factor in the modern publishing business. According to BookNet Canada, “In 2024, 15% of books purchased by book buyers were ebooks,” and “Ebooks had the highest rating of value for money, with 54% rating them as excellent.” Quick, efficient and accessible conversions are key to success in this market.

I started working with ebooks in 2015, and today I regularly provide conversion services to several BC publishers, including Harbour Publishing, Douglas & McIntyre, Nightwood Editions and Ronsdale Press.

My specialty is preparing reflowable ebooks from Adobe InDesign files after the print edition is ready. Depending on the project, the process can include adding live hyperlinks, such as for bibliographical sources, cross-references or notes; improving the typography for a reflowable context; adding several accessibility features; and extensive post-export cleanup of the XHTML code. All this is done while preserving, to the extent possible, the content order and design style from the print edition.

In 2024, Ronsdale Press received Benetech's Global Certified Accessible™ certification for their ebook workflow, and I was their conversion provider. In 2025, they also received the eBOUND Digital Certification.

Accessibility features I can help with include semantic tagging, navigational aids like page lists and hierarchical tables of contents, descriptive text, and others.

My ebooks are made to function well across most modern readers but degrade gracefully in older systems. I often include fancy code that I hope will gain wider adoption in the future.

All books I design get every ebook feature mentioned above added as a matter of course in the typesetting stage.

Editorial

I am a fan both of stories and of The Chicago Manual of Style. I began flexing my literary critic muscles in undergraduate Creative Writing courses, and then solidified those skills during my Master’s degree. I love to help authors communicate their ideas in a clear and engaging way, whether it be in fiction or non-fiction.