Robert J. Sawyer reports that Nalo Hopkinson “has joined the Red Deer Press team as the editor of her own fantasy imprint,” which will be a companion to his Robert J. Sawyer Books imprint. Hopkinson expects to be publishing three books a year for Red Deer.
Hopkinson, like Sawyer, is an award-winning, Toronto-based speculative fiction author. Sawyer says of the new imprint “this has been in the works for months now, and I take justifiable pride in it happening, I think, as I’m the one who recommended and introduced Nalo to Sharon Fitzhenry, the publisher of Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Red Deer’s parent company. Welcome aboard, Nalo!”
In addition to her original writings, Hopkinson has edited several original anthologies. her web site is temporarily off-line, but her Wikipedia entry gives a brief overview of her career.
[Edited 9 February 2008: Hopkinson announces some corrections and amplifications to this piece. They’re in this article.]