Authors
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Michael Antman
Michael Antman is the author of the novel Cherry Whip, Everything Solid Has a Shadow, and the recently completed novel A Distant Place of Slaughter. He is a two-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Balakian Award for Excellence in Book Reviewing. He is also a theatre critic, urban photographer and poet, and formerly the Global Head of Marketing for a Fortune 100 company.
Michael is an alumna (twice) of our podcast Re-Creative.
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Paul Burns
A life-long reader of Science Fiction & Fantasy, Paul Burns has a great affinity for spaceships and dragons. Dragons flying spaceships would be the ultimate adventure and may appear soon in a bookstore near you. Paul's first two books, "Owen and the Dinosaur" and "Emily Finds a Dragon" were for younger readers; the latter was nominated for the Hackmatack Children's Choice Award.
Paul's joy is writing stories with a bit of humour woven in and he hopes you will join him on his latest adventure, The Druid and the Dragon.
Paul lives in Riverview, New Brunswick with his wife, Gail, their dog Stryker and their two black house panthers, Merlin and Luna. They like to hike - the cats don't - and take photos of waterfalls and the ocean. Paul is a member of the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick.
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Jenn deLagran
Jenn DeLagran (MBA) is a business and financial analyst with over twenty-four years experience in some of Canada's largest companies. Currently employed by one of Canada's top financial institutions, Jenn's experience in business casing and financial modeling is a key asset to the future growth of Donovan Street Press Inc. She has a passion for writing and helping fellow authors achieve their publishing dreams.
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David Gerrold
David Gerrold has been writing science fiction for more than half a century. He has written for Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Babylon 5, Sliders, Land Of The Lost, and other SF television series.
His published works include The War Against The Chtorr series (A Matter For Men, A Day For Damnation, A Rage For Revenge, A Season For Slaughter), The Dingilliad Trilogy (Jumping Off The Planet, Bouncing Off The Moon, Leaping To The Stars), and The Star Wolf Trilogy (The Voyage Of The Star Wolf, The Middle Of Nowhere, Blood And Fire). His other novels include the Hugo-nominated When HARLIE WAS ONE, and the Hugo and Nebula-nominated The Man Who Folded Himself. His most recent novels are thirteen, fourteen, fifteen o'clock, Jacob, and Hella.
In 1994, Gerrold shared the adventure of how he adopted his son in The Martian Child, a semi-autobiographical tale of a science fiction writer who discovers his adopted child might be a Martian. The Martian Child won the science fiction triple crown: the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Locus Poll. It was the basis for the 2007 film "Martian Child" starring John Cusack and Amanda Peet. (The book is better.)
Despite all that, David Gerrold is best known as the man who created tribbles for Star Trek, and Sleestaks for Land Of The Lost.
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Tanah Haney
When not writing, Tanah Haney divides her time between playing the Celtic harp, teaching music, gardening and cat wrangling. She is a published poet and is co-author of Where the World Bleeds Through with her husband, photographer and digital artist Mark A. Harrison. The character of Aiden in Tanah's debut novel, A Peculiar Symmetry, was inspired by Tanah's own experience with neurodiversity. Late diagnosed with ADHD at age 50 but neurodivergent from day one, Tanah is determined to be a more vocal champion of everyone who has ever felt different, and for the free expression of same in a diverse, inclusive, and compassionate society. Tanah lives in Peterborough, Ontario, with her husband Mark and a small but vocal menagerie.
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Graham Harrop
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Tom Mahoney
Retired teacher Tom Mahoney grew up on a small family farm in Johnville, New Brunswick.
Drawing on his own experiences and those of his family — his father was also a gifted storyteller — Tom's humorous and touching tales, spanning decades, brim with colour and authenticity.
Tom received a Cultural Achievement Award from the City of Summerside, PEI for The Deer Yard & Other Stories. One of the stories within, Toby the Dog, was featured on Stuart McLean's Vinyl Cafe on CBC Radio.
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Joe Mahoney
Joe Mahoney's first novel, A Time and a Place, was published on October 1st 2017 by Five Rivers Press. His memoir, a behind-the-scenes glimpse of working at CBC Radio, Adventures in the Radio Trade, was published on August 1st 2023 by Donovan Street Press.
Joe has worked as a story editor on multiple radio, television and film projects, and bakes a mean lasagna.
He is a member of entirely too many organizations, including SF Canada, the Science Fiction Writers of America, the Writers Union of Canada, and the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick.
Joe is co-host of our podcast Re-Creative.
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Arlene F. Marks
Born and raised in Toronto, Arlene F. Marks spent twenty years teaching high school before retiring to dive into a full-time professional writing and editing career. Since 2012, she has authored two literacy programs, a critically acclaimed collection of short speculative fiction, and more than a dozen novels in multiple genres, from space opera to paranormal mystery. She has also given numerous writing workshops, facilitated a local writers' group, and midwifed two literary festivals in the Georgian Bay area of Ontario: CollingWord and The Word on the Bay. She lives and writes on the shore of beautiful Nottawasaga Bay, but can also be found on her website: www.thewritersnest.ca
Arlene is an alumna of our podcast Re-Creative.
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Ira Nayman
Ira Nayman has had eight novels and 40 short stories published by people he's not related to (most recently The Multiverse Refugees Trilogy: Good Intentions, Bad Actors and The Ugly Truth). Les Pages aux Folles, Ira's web page of social and political satire, has been updated weekly for the past 23 years; the archive contains 53 books (44 collections of prose and 9 collections of cartoons). He has self-published 14 of these collections, the Alternate Reality News Service, in print. One of his projects for 2026 is to self-publish volumes of his unproduced screenplays. First up are The Love Box, an original TV series about a family that lives over and runs the biggest porn store in the world; and Wine and Company, an original series about a company that offers karmic adjustment and massage therapy.Ira also works as an editur. An edditor. Edits. He also edits. To read more about this side of him, go here.
Ira has been featured on our podcast Re-Creative no less than three times, he's that interesting.
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Mark A. Rayner
Human-shaped, monkey-loving, robot-fighting, pirate-hearted, storytelling junkie, Mark is co-host of our podcast Re-Creative and an award-winning author of satire and speculative fiction. He writes in the genres of science fiction, humorous SF and dark comedy. When not working on the next novel, he pens short stories, squibs and other drivel. (Some pure, and some quite tainted with meaning.)
He is also a prof at Western University, at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, where he teaches bemused students how to create digital products that won't become self-aware and destroy all humanity.
He does all of these thing while being Canadian and owning cats.
Find his books anywhere you can get them online, or check out his own website.
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Susan Rodgers
Susan Rodgers' first novel A Certain Kind of Freedom was a finalist in the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia Atlantic Writing Awards for unpublished manuscripts. Her Drifters series has received rave reviews and has been optioned for television. Also an independent filmmaker, Susan produced her first feature drama, Still The Water, in 2019. Owner / Operator of Bluemountain Entertainment, she is a graduate of Vancouver Film School. Susan lives with her partner Stephen in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and makes frequent trips to Vancouver to visit her son Christopher.
www.susanrodgersauthor.com
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Matt Watts
Matt Watts started his career as a stand-up comedian and writer in television and film; most recently working as a writer on The Kids in the Hall for Amazon Prime. He co-wrote and co-starred in the critically acclaimed 12-episode CBC series Michael: Tuesdays & Thursdays, which earned him WGC and CSA Award Nominations for writing in 2011. A second season, titled Michael: Every Day, aired on CBC in January 2017.
At CBC Radio, he created three series: In Steve, The First (2005), a slacker wakes up to find he's slept through the apocalypse in this dark four-part comedy. Steve, The Second (2006) details the story of the son of the original Steve. Canadia: 2056 (2007) centres on Max Anderson, the American liaison on board the only Canadian spaceship in an otherwise American space fleet headed toward a galactic war.
In 2015, Matt's short film Portal to Hell!!!, starring the late, great, Rowdy Roddy Piper, premiered at TIFF and went on to win awards from festivals around the globe.
Huey and the Wasteland, Matt's first novel, sees him revisiting his favourite themes: anxiety and the post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Matt is an alumna of our podcast Re-Creative.
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Brian Wyvill
Brian follows his dreams as an author/playwright, mountaineer, professional actor and a pioneer in computer graphics research. Brian's journey through life includes making computer animated sequences for the movie, 'Alien,' and writing novels. A renaissance man proficient in the arts, and the sciences, who embraces physical challenge. He has now turned his talents towards creating historical, time-slip, naval fiction. Brian lives with his with his wife and lively Airedale terrior, Juniper in Victoria, British Columbia.
Brian is an alumna of our podcast Re-Creative.
Behind the Scenes
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Rebecca Webb, Marketing Manager
Rebecca Webb is a marketer and writer from St. John’s, Newfoundland. After completing her business degree at Memorial University and a stint in Facebook Ads, Rebecca found her passion: Helping small businesses share their stories with the world. As a freelance copywriter for various software companies, marketing agencies, and local entrepreneurs, Rebecca is an expert at capturing business owners’ voices and putting the power of marketing to work. Her lifelong goal as a book-lover has been to publish her own story, and she’s very excited to help Donovan Street Press tell theirs! When she’s not reading or learning the latest social media algorithms, you can find Rebecca as a tour guide on a local whale- and puffin-watching boat (which is where she met Joe!).
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Jenn DeLagran: Jenn DeLagran, Business Manager
Jenn DeLagran (MBA) is a business and financial analyst with over twenty-four years experience in some of Canada's largest companies. Currently employed by one of Canada's top financial institutions, Jenn's experience in business casing and financial modeling is a key asset to the future growth of Donovan Street Press Inc. She has a passion for writing and helping fellow authors achieve their publishing dreams.
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Erin Mahoney, Illustrator
Erin, who enjoys drawing in her spare time, illustrated the covers for both her grandfather's book The Deer Yard & Other Stories and her father's short story collection Other Times & Places.
She lives and works in Ontario.
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Keira Mahoney, Illustrator
Keira Mahoney is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University's Radio and Television Arts, Media Production program. She illustrated the cover for her father's novel A Time and a Place. Keira loves animals, and can be spotted on Toronto streets petting any and every dog and cat she comes across. She and her furry spaniel son Oz enjoy eating yummy food, going for long walks, and hanging out at the local dog parks.
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Ira Nayman, Senior Editor
Ira Nayman was the editor of Amazing Stories magazine. Yes, that Amazing Stories. In addition to the magazine, he edited several volumes of Amazing Selects, working with such writers as Alan Steele, David Gerrold and John Stith. The Dance, Ira's first anthology as editor, was published in 2024. Etaerio, or The Ineluctable Illogical Logic of the Deliquescent Primadivatastic Grits, his second anthology as editor, was published in 2025. He looks forward to bringing great books to life with Donovan Street Press.Psst. Down here. Did you know that Ira is also an author? To read more about this side of him, go here.
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Avery Olive, Bibliofic Designs
Bibliofic Designs is a one-stop shop! Avery Olive has worked with bestselling authors providing services such as eye-catching book covers, one-of-a-kind interior design layouts, and promotional and marketing materials, as well as fun and creatively designed merchandise for the reader, writer, and all-around book lover.
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Arleane Ralph, Editor
Arleane Ralph is a copy editor and proofreader with mad skills when it comes to seeing where people's writing style has let them down, where their word choice is dubious, and where they've contradicted themselves or relied too heavily on the editorial advice of a well-intentioned friend.
She is an indexer of legal textbooks, which is not as dull as it sounds.
To her own surprise, Arleane is also a published and university-trained palaeographer, having transcribed all manner of documents from 16th century diaries to 20th century birth records and letters to the speck of a label on the back of a possible Shakespeare portrait.
Arleane lives and works in Ontario. She is a camping enthusiast, sings awesome second alto, follows Premier League football, and takes terrible family selfies. She has an uncanny knack for finding lost objects and never hesitates to sing out loud in the car.
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Robert Runte, Editor
Robert Runté, PhD, is Senior Editor with EssentialEdits.ca and SFeditor.ca. He was, for nearly a decade, Senior Editor at Five Rivers Publishing, where he acquired and edited over 30 books, primarily speculative fiction. A retired professor, he has won three Aurora Awards (Canadian SF&F) for his literary criticism; wrote the Canadian speculative fiction entry for the Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada; published the NCF Guide to Canadian Science Fiction; and given over a hundred presentations and workshops at writers' conferences. He was a founding board member of SFCanada and WordBridge.
He currently reviews for the Ottawa Review of Books and his own short fiction has been published over 90 times in a variety of magazines, literary journals, and anthologies. He is currently working on the novel he started in 1971, but no one (other than Joe Mahoney) expects him to actually finish.
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Joe Mahoney, Publisher
Prior to launching Donovan Street Press Inc., Joe Mahoney worked full-time for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He did that for thirty-five years, which now seems like the blink of an eye.
There, Joe spent a decade making radio plays, working with some of the finest actors, directors, and writers in Canada.
In 2007, Joe left production to join the CBC management team, where he managed broadcast maintenance teams and, eventually, the eastern real estate portfolio. He spent his final year as both Operations Manager (Acting) for Nova Scotia and Regional Property Manager, both of which he loved. He retired from the CBC in 2023 and now focuses his attention on his family, growing Donovan Street Press, and trying (finally!) to get his black belt in Karate.
He's also best friends with a Sheltie named Wendy.
