Cheri Hanson

Create awesome content

cheriadmin — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:07:03 +0000

Create Awesome Content is a straightforward guide to engaging your audience. You'll learn how to develop a simple content strategy, write brilliant copy, and how to work with a writer or content creator if you start sweating whenever you face the blank page (no judgment).

I wrote this book to demystify all the stuff that trips up smart people – from online storytelling to the difference between active and passive voice. In today's noisy world, everyone needs awesome content in order to stand out from the crowd. This book collects all my best advice into a practical and fast-paced digital package.

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First time lucky

cheri — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 01:43:40 +0000

More than a decade in the making, Anakana Schofield’s debut novel finds a fitting home.

Quill & Quire magazine
June 2012

Vancouver author Anakana Schofield is a study in contradictions. She claims to have spent the last 10 years “locked away” in a tiny apartment on the city’s west side, painstakingly crafting her debut novel, Malarky (Biblioasis). Yet since emigrating from Dublin to Vancouver in 1998, Schofield has confronted her new home with the enthusiasm of an ethnographer – diving headlong into the local art and poetry scenes, and exploring the city’s geography, its labour history, and, especially, the social-realist writing that flourished here in the 1960s and ’70s. In the work of authors like D.M. Fraser, Betty Lambert, and Helen Potrebenko, Schofield found her cultural bearings, and further inspiration for documenting “extraordinary ordinary” lives, much like that of the Irish mother at the centre of her novel.

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An artist’s growing menagerie

cheri — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 01:32:45 +0000

How Ashley Spires’ expanding lineup of quirky, cuddly characters has earned her the adoration of children – and children’s book editors – across Canada.

Quill & Quire magazine

March 2012

There are few things Ashley Spires treasures more than her comfortable, predictable daily routine. That’s why a 2009 move from Vancouver to Saskatoon temporarily knocked the award-winning children’s author and illustrator off kilter – and inspired her new picture book, Larf (Kids Can Press), featuring a seven-foot-tall vegetarian sasquatch who uproots his quiet forest life with a fateful trip to the city.

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Andrew Simpson, The Still Brandworks

cheriadmin — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:25:05 +0000

Cheri works to understand our clients’ businesses and craft the right copy for the job. Her work is beautiful, effective and dynamic. Working with Cheri makes us look good and our projects successful.

Beth Hardy, Farris (formerly ACL Services)

cheriadmin — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:24:30 +0000

I started working with Cheri over nine years ago at ACL Services, when I hired her as a contract writer and editor. Her ability to take complex technical information and make it into clear and engaging copy made her stand out from other writers in the field. Her professional attitude and ability to adapt to changing business demands meant I could count on her in any situation. Cheri’s outstanding work on behalf of ACL continues to speak for itself.

Paul Jarvis, twothirty.com & eatawesome.ca

cheriadmin — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 05:18:02 +0000

Cheri Hanson was my first and only choice to edit my latest book project. She is a pleasure to work with and has a brilliant, meticulous mind for the English language. I’ve now worked with Cheri on everything from book editing to original website copywriting, and she succeeds at every project with clarity, vision and dependability.

Laura Cox, Cox Marketing Group, Inc.

cheriadmin — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 05:17:29 +0000

Cheri Hanson is a delight to work with. She works proactively, productively and professionally with agency project managers or directly with client content providers alike. Her writing range – which spans easily from technical to promotional and back again – makes her a really versatile fit for my project needs. She meets every deadline and consistently exceeds client expectations, so the projects she’s involved in always flow smoothly and easily. I would recommend Cheri without reservation.

Lisa Johnson, The Grapevine Group

cheriadmin — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 05:16:57 +0000

Cheri Hanson is a gifted writer, and working with her has been a game-changer for my business. Through phone interviews and creative collaboration, she helped me get my ideas out of my head and into newsletters, web copy, training curriculum and even a NYC-published book. Cheri combines a journalist’s curiosity and nose for research with a seasoned writer’s ability to use word pictures and delicious language to bring a topic to life.

Polar Perspectives

cheri — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:01:25 +0000

Polar Perspectives

An Inuit-owned publishing house fills a major cultural void

Quill & Quire magazine March 2010

It’s not easy being Canada’s northernmost publisher. But for Nunavut’s Inhabit Media, which has its head office in Iqaluit, doing business above the 60th parallel has proven a winning proposition. Steeped in spirits, mythology, and traditional Inuit knowledge, the three-year-old firm has filled a cultural and language-resource gap by publishing classroom-friendly, bilingual editions that preserve the oral stories of the Canadian Arctic for a new generation.

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The Kids are Alright

cheri — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:24:34 +0000

The Kids are Alright
While many independent booksellers have succumbed to the power of national chains, big-box outlets and online emporiums, local children’s book retailers have found their own path toward success.

BC Business, July 2009

When Portia Tickell told people she was opening a children’s bookstore on Vancouver’s Main Street, jaws began flapping. Didn’t she know B.C.’s retail landscape is littered with the ghosts of independent booksellers? Hadn’t she heard the death knell for the Granville Book Company, Fireside Books, Women in Print and Black Sheep Books? How about Merlin Books in Kamloops? Or Prince George’s beloved Mosquito Books?

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