Sarah Passingham Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, Canada Area

I fit our editorial content into clients' unique TV listings books. I ensure grids, logs, photos and feature stories are perfectly placed before sending proofed files to clients. I am also responsible for writing assigned articles on various entertainment topics.

Toronto, Canada Area

I supervise employees and complete basic managerial duties such as opening and closing the theatre, managing daily balances, and showbuilding.

Toronto, Canada Area

I assisted the sales and marketing department with tasks that needed to be completed such as data entry and online research.

Toronto, Canada Area

I assist the production department with various tasks. I complete production checklists before a book is sent to print, make final manuscript corrections as instructed by the editorial department, check cover art for reprints and paperback editions to ensure quality, check jacket proofs according to specifications sent by the printer, and check bound books for printing quality. I also perform some administrative tasks such as distributing books to staff and sending interoffice mailings.

Toronto

As an intern at University of Toronto Press, I helped input metadata for the Spring-Summer 2014 catalogue into the website CSM and edited the HTML code so that book information would display correctly on every website UTP books are sold. I also uploaded images onto the DAM to be used for display on websites. I helped proof the current catalogue before it went to print ensuring that prices, ISBNs, discount codes, and release dates were all accurate. I pulled quotes from reader reports to be used in various marketing efforts. I was responsible for multiple research tasks, including creating email lists and updating Foreign Rights contact information. In total, I helped add almost 700 professors to various e-marketing masterlists. I also researched professors to send review copies to when none were requested by the author. I participated in a local conference where UTP books were being sold, and helped prepare for other conferences by creating book lists for exhibits at which we were represented by Scholar’s Choice. I represented UTP when meeting with an author to get books signed and assisted in other publicity efforts such as mailings and proofing press releases. I was responsible for checking that all books to be presented in the weekly marketing meeting were displaying correctly on Amazon, Chapters, and Barnes and Noble.

I was part of a team of twelve students who were given a raw manuscript in September 2012 and launched the finished, printed book at a party in April 2013. I worked on Talking Derby by Kate Hargreaves. My responsibilities included copyediting, substantive editing, proofreading, logbook duties, communicating with the author, creating marketing strategies, evaluating market research, special sales, creating Excel documents tracking our editing progress and fundraising efforts, assisting planning the launch party, and team management as Chairperson.

Ontario Graduate Certificate, Creative Book Publishing

Ba[H], Engish Language And Literature

Activities and Societies: Editing and Publishing Practicum