From the beginning, I wanted this book to be completely accessible to any reader of nonfiction, not just the cognoscenti. I believe I have achieved this, and much of the credit goes to the brilliant writer and editor, Sarah Scott. In the last six months she and I became a two-person team, refining the core concepts, restructuring and reworking the material, and cutting the manuscript in half. We had a thoroughly enjoyable and enormously productive collaboration.

Don Tapscott, Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World

I am an award winning journalist who helps leading thinkers in business and universities write books and articles. I’ve just finished helping Internet guru Don Tapscott write his latest book, Grown Up Digital, which has received glowing reviews from the New York Times, The Economist, and other leading papers. The way I collaborate with authors varies widely, but my core business is helping leading thinkers clarify their ideas and their writing so that they can present a compelling case in print, in the form of a book, an article, or a shorter item online.

A former political reporter from Montreal, I also write magazine articles on a wide variety of topics for Canadian publications such as Report on Business Magazine, Toronto Life, Maclean’s, Chatelaine, Canadian Geographic, explore and Azure. I have won two silver medals at the National Magazine Awards, plus 10 honorary mentions for a wide range of stories, from a post-mortem on the nuclear renovation disaster at Ontario Power Generation to a counter-intuitive essay on cloning. Most recently, I have written on the brain’s ability to change and respond to environmental influences, the impact of architecture on human health, and the Revenge of the C+ Student.