Our Team

Peggy was a lawyer for more than thirty years and has a doctorate in Indigenous law. Her debut novel was rejected 156 times before it was shortlisted for the U.K. Debut Dagger. After a chance meeting with Ian Rankin in a hotel bar in Harrogate, she ended up represented by his U.K. agent. The Beggar’s Opera (also named Midnight in Havana) was translated into six languages and published internationally. It won the Giller Prize Reader’s Choice Award, proving the only way to guarantee failure is to give up and that it’s okay to talk to strange men in bars. A renovator, artist, and Level 6 boxer, she lives just outside Ottawa with a friendly cat and a TV-watching dog.

With a degree in Criminology, Holly has spent nearly a decade working in the public sector, primarily in the areas of prisoner human rights and worker health and safety. As a freelance editor, she has a blast helping authors at all stages of their writing journey. She lives in Ottawa, surrounded by stacks of vintage Agatha Christie books. When she’s not reading or working, she’s writing her own novels and volunteering at her local theatre company. You can check out her website at www.hollylynnliterary.ca.

Jim has owned bookdesign.ca for twenty-five years and does typesetting as well as jacket cover art. He thinks he’s probably typeset at least 700 books, including all of ReBound Press’s titles. He lives in Victoria, B.C. and is busy growing tomatoes when he’s not off fly fishing or hanging out in his canoe with Gunter, the neighbourhood stray cat.

John is a Toronto graphic designer. He studied graphic design and illustration at Ontario College of Art, graduating in 1985. After several years working as an illustrator, he embraced the early shift to computers. For the next thirty years, he used his keen sense of design to execute major print campaigns for some of the largest advertising accounts in Canada from automotive to entertainment. He is semi-retired but continues to works on projects for a few select clients. In his spare time, John enjoys camping, urban sketching, playing chess badly, and walking around downtown Toronto absorbing the unique neighbourhoods of Canada's multicultural crossroads.

Kevin is a retired educator and an unrepentant lifelong student. Over the years he collected degrees the way some people collect fridge magnets—education, sports management, computer technology, and finally, a PhD in business operations management in his late fifties. Now an octogenarian, he and his family happily trade books and political debates. His main physical activity these days is strolling around the shopping mall with his wife—proof that cardio comes in many forms.

David, the owner of Vimi Corp., located in Burlington, Ontario, has been in the printing business for twenty-five years. In his spare time, he enjoys fishing and travelling to the Caribbean as often as possible. David is a proud supporter of self-published authors and small independent publishers like ReBound Press. You can check out his company’s many products and services at www.vimi.com and www.canadian-bookstore.ca.