Amy Black, Publisher
AMY BLACK became Publisher of Doubleday Canada and Bond Street Books in 2016. She started her career in 1998, joining Random House Canada in 2001 as a production assistant, and Doubleday Canada’s editorial department in 2003, where for many years she led the imprint’s YA program. Amy continues to acquire selectively both fiction and non-fiction, including works by Atul Gawande, Diana Gabaldon, Patrick Radden Keefe, Bonnie Garmus, and Colson Whitehead, among others.
Bhavna Chauhan, Editorial Director
BHAVNA CHAUHAN is Editorial Director, Commercial Publishing at Doubleday Canada. She is drawn to projects with strong, layered character and voice and deeply human experiences, as well as stories that offer delicious escapes from the everyday. She is the Canadian editor of Taylor Jenkins Reid, internationally bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six, and Shari Lapena, author of the global bestseller The Couple Next Door. Most recently, she has worked on A Great Country by acclaimed international author Shilpi Somaya Gowda and Twenty-Seven Minutes by Canadian writer Ashley Tate, both instant #1 bestsellers; Good Material by Dolly Alderton; and It Happened One Christmas by Chantel Guertin. Some of her latest acquisitions include Favorite Daughter by Morgan Dick; Someone in the Attic by Andrea Mara; Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley; Métis writer Maia Caron’s dual-timeline historical novel The Last Secret; and Sorry, Not Sorry, a pop science examination of the power of apologies by Dr. Judy Eaton. She also works with international authors Emily Giffin, Liane Moriarty, Marian Keyes, Trevor Noah, Jane Corry, and Martha Hall Kelly.
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Janie Yoon, Editorial Director
JANIE YOON is Editorial Director of the Bond Street Books imprint at Doubleday Canada, which publishes the best in Canadian and international fiction and non-fiction. Previously, she was Executive Editor at Simon & Schuster Canada, where she launched the Scribner Canada literary imprint. Prior to her time at Simon & Schuster Canada, she was Associate Publisher at House of Anansi Press, where she worked with many award-winning and bestselling authors and for a decade was the editor of the prestigious CBC Massey Lectures.
Melanie Tutino, Senior Editor
MELANIE TUTINO (she/her) is a Senior Editor at Doubleday Canada. She is interested in acquiring literary fiction; upmarket and book-club fiction; memoir; and non-fiction, particularly that which focuses on systemic injustice, environmental issues, the natural world or psychology. Across genres, she is drawn to voice-driven narratives with strong emotional impact. She does not acquire commercial genre fiction. She is thrilled to have recently published the #1 instant national bestseller The Heart of a Superfan, a memoir by Nav Bhatia, the nationally bestselling historical romance Someday I'll Find You by C.C. Humphreys and the New York Times bestseller The Husbands by Holly Gramazio. She is proud to work with international and Canadian authors that include Susan Fletcher, Janice Lynn Mather, Sarah Meehan Sirk, Leah Mol, Kate Pullinger, Craig Taylor, C.J. Tudor, Anne Tyler, and David Wroblewski. Her forthcoming publications include a novel and a book of essays by bestselling author Jennette McCurdy; the memoirs May It Have a Happy Ending by Minelle Mahtani and Children Like Us by Brittany Penner; and the novel The Lost Tarot by Sarah Henstra, among others.
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Ward Hawkes, Assistant Editor
WARD HAWKES is an Assistant Editor at Doubleday Canada. He acquires for both Doubleday Canada and the Bond Street Books imprint, and is particularly drawn to narrative and topical non-fiction, big-idea books, and thought-provoking literary fiction. Authors he’s worked with include M.G. Vassanji, Jessica McDiarmid, Desmond Cole, Tom Wilson, Alan Doyle, Michael Harris, and Avik Jain Chatlani, among others. Ward’s forthcoming publications include a memoir-manifesto about Canada’s drug war, an intellectual history of narcissism, a memoir about reclaiming lost Indigenous identity, and a history of Canadian comedy.
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Megan Kwan, Assistant Editor
MEGAN KWAN is an Assistant Editor at Doubleday Canada. As a lifelong romantic, she craves books that centre on connection and compassion. She loves falling head over heels for and into a story told from a fresh perspective. Her interests lie primarily in voice-driven commercial and upmarket cross-genre fiction that explores contemporary issues with nuance, be it racial justice, gender dynamics, and beyond. Megan is also drawn to introspective or interrogative non-fiction that incorporates personal narratives to help share and demystify traditionally overlooked or misrepresented viewpoints. She is proud to have worked on It Happened One Christmas by Chantel Guertin and Twenty-Seven Minutes by Ashley Tate, and is looking forward to the forthcoming rom-coms Only Because It's You by Rebecca Fisseha and The Re-Write by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn, as well as the romantasy A Widow's Charm by Caitlyn Paxson.
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Maria Golikova, Senior Managing Editor
(On parental leave until 2025)
MARIA GOLIKOVA (she/her) is a Senior Managing Editor at Doubleday Canada. She works closely with the editorial team to guide manuscripts through the final stages of their journey into book form, liaising with freelance editors as well as Production and Design to ensure titles remain on schedule and, most precariously, error-free. In a collaborative and supportive role, Maria has been thrilled to work on books ranging from literary fiction like Christine Lai’s Landscapes to memoirs like Nav Bhatia's The Heart of a Superfan, as well as many immersive publications in between.
Anna MacDiarmid, Publishing Manager
ANNA MACDIARMID (she/her) joined Doubleday Canada permanently in 2022 after moving to Canada from the UK. She is very keen to find new and exciting Canadian and international science communicators writing accessible, engaging and incisive books in the field, and is particularly drawn to stories from psychology, the natural world, medical science, and mental health. On the fiction side, Anna leans more towards commercial and upmarket stories that suck her in and don’t let her go until the last page, regardless of the genre. She enjoys an excellent plot-driven narrative as much as a voice-driven one and is always on the lookout for those rare stories that manage to tick both boxes, whether it’s a slushy romance, a tense thriller, transportive magical realism, or a sweeping historical fiction. Her titles include Careering by international author Daisy Buchanan, as well as the upcoming commercial romance Make Me a Mixtape by Jennifer Whiteford and the non-fiction Canadiana Maple Syrup Nation by Peter Kuitenbrouwer. She also oversees a range of other tasks for the imprint, including the second format publishing program.
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Diyasha Sen, Editorial Assistant
DIYASHA SEN (she/her) is an Editorial Assistant at Doubleday Canada. She often supports the editorial team in an administrative capacity—managing everything from the galley process to proofing jacket copy to reviewing an array of submissions. Diyasha loves to read in various categories but is especially partial to non-fiction that explores the intersections of arts, culture and identity, as well as upmarket fiction grounded in an ensemble of characters. Her favourite Doubleday Canada titles include Good Material by Dolly Alderton and The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King.