Ashleigh Gardner started her publishing career at Dundurn Press as Manager of Digital Development, helping authors promote and sell their titles on line. She has since joined the exciting world of ebooks with Kobo Inc. as Content Manager, educating authors and publishers on digital best practices, and identifying titles that should be made available in digital form. See her on the Digital Drive stage with Cynthia Good, Natascha Helbig, Allen Lau and Anita Windisman at 12:30.

Natale Ghent is the award-winning YA author of No Small Thing, The Book of Living and Dying, and All the Way Home. Her critically acclaimed work has gathered awards and recognition internationally. See her in The Remarkable Reads Tent for youth hour at 12:00.

Catherine Gildiner has been a clinical psychologist in private practice for many years. Her bestselling memoir Too Close to the Falls was published in Canada, the US and the UK to wide acclaim in 1999. Her second book, Seduction, a novel, was a national bestseller. She lives in Toronto. See her in The Remarkable Reads Tent at 2:20.

Cynthia Good is the Director of the Creative Book Publishing Program at Humber and a former President of Penguin Books Canada. See her at The Wordshop Marquee at 11:00, and on the Digital Drive stage with Ashleigh Gardner, Natascha Helbig, Allen Lau and Anita Windisman at 12:30.

Katherine Govier’s novel Three Views of Crystal Water was a Globe and Mail Book of the Year in 2005; Creation was a New York Times Notable Book of 2003. See her at the Great Books Marquee at 11:00.

James Grainger is the author of The Long Slide and a books columnist for Quill & Quire and the Toronto Star. He is also the editor in chief of The Excerpt, the books site of Torontoist.com. He is hosting the Great Books Marquee from 2:15 – 6:00.

Charlotte Gray is one of Canada’s pre-eminent biographers and has won numerous awards for her writing including, but not limited to, the 2002 UBC Medal for Canadian Biography, the prestigious Pierre Berton Award for a body of historical writing and more. She is currently the Chair of Canada’s National History Society.  Her 2010 title Gold Diggers: Striking it Rich in the Klondike is a colourful and entertaining journey into the Yukon Gold rush of 1896. Come see her discuss historical non-fiction writing in the Scotiabank Giller Prize Bestsellers Stage at 2:00.