Driverworks Ink Shares Prairie Stories

Deana Driver successfully applied for the Author-Funded Book Publishing grant through her publishing company, DriverWorks Ink, which shares stories about fascinating Prairie people and unsung Canadian heroes.

Here’s what she had to say about the funding:

“Hi, I’m Deana Driver, and I am a book publisher here in Saskatchewan. My company is DriverWorks Ink and I’m pleased that Creative Saskatchewan has been able to provide us with some grants through their Author-funded Book Publishing Production program so that we can help others to get their stories out there.

I’m a nonfiction writer, so I’m an author as well as a book publisher, and because I’m an author, I don’t qualify for other grants that are available to some of the larger publishers and some of the traditional publishers. So my hybrid publishing company is really grateful that authors can come to me, and I can provide the editing and the services of layout and the design to do fabulous books like Gary Hoium’s Don’t They Kick When You Do That, Volume 2. Mary Harelkin Bishop is a Saskatoon author, and I’ve worked with her on something like 10 books, a number of those which have received Creative Saskatchewan funding. And we’ve redone her Tunnels the Moose Jaw Time Travel Adventure series recently because of the support of Creative Saskatchewan’s Book Publishing Production grants.

A couple of the books that I’ve been involved in personally, as a writer, are the Flight series and these are Volumes 1 and 2, and when I met this lovely gentleman here, Reg “Crash” Harrison, through working on Volume 1 of the series, I decided to try to do a book about him and only him. Reg is almost 103 years old. He lives in Saskatoon, and he is a bomber pilot who survived four plane crashes during the Second World War. And so his incredible historical story is now an award-winning book thanks to the support of Creative Saskatchewan.

These are the stories that I love to put out there, and these are the stories

I’m so grateful to have received support for to enable myself as a publisher, as an author, to get more important Prairie stories out to the readers across the country and across the world. Thanks, Creative Sask! ”

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