Colborne Communications is a professional editing and publishing services company based in Toronto.
Publishers, varied corporations, government departments, and design firms all rely on Colborne Communications’ services to create professional-level publications.
All of Colborne’s editors have been trained at one of the country’s top publishing programs and have undergone an apprenticeship period at our company or at a respected publishing house.
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Our team
Owner & president
Greg Ioannou
This whole Colborne thing was Greg’s idea. He’s been writing and editing since 1977. He’s edited more than 2000 books and written everything from board games to annual reports. He was the very first member of the Editors’ Association of Canada and has been on the EAC’s executive for longer than some of the other Colborners have been alive. Outside of the office, he captains a team in a weekly trivia league and has been known to frequent local pubs and stamp auctions. He’s loquacious (full of loquats), pugnacious (resembling a pug), and ornery (Greg-like).
Affiliations
• Editing Certificate Program at George Brown College
• Editors Canada
• Iguana Books
Vice President
Holly Warren
Holly joined the Colborne team in 2015 as an intern from Ryerson’s publishing program. Her main focus is managing projects for corporate, government, and educational clients. She also keeps busy editing and proofreading all sorts of things, including websites, reports, novels, memoirs, short stories, children’s books, magazine articles, newsletters, menus, ads, RFPs, and textbooks. She loves taking on new projects, digging into fresh style guides, and working closely with clients to meet production deadlines. Holly started her editing career in ministerial correspondence at the Canada Revenue Agency not long after completing her MA in English at the University of Ottawa, but after a few years, she was happy to move into a position at Colborne that offers more variety; now she can work on editing a picture book in the morning, a newsletter promoting a new restaurant midday, and an environmental assessment report in the afternoon. She does, however, miss skating to work.
editor
Amanda Feeney
Amanda is an editor and proofreader for Colborne Communications in Toronto. She’s also a member of Editors Canada and co-chair of the Kitchener-Waterloo-Guelph twig. She has a degree in French–English translation from the University of Ottawa and a post-graduate publishing certificate from Ryerson University. Amanda loves creating clear, engaging content and helping writers refine the messages they want to convey to their readers.
Editor
Lee Parpart
Lee lives writing and editing every day, as an award-winning poet, writer of short fiction, and editor of novels in all genres. She is passionate about semicolons and em dashes, has fully mastered the art of parallel parking, and has a theory about why these things are connected. Lee loves helping authors reach their full potential, a job that still feels too fun to be real. Her favourite thing is to take a semi-developed story and work with the author to make the characters come alive and the language sing, whether that means AC/DC or arias.
Editor & designer
Heather Bury
Fresh out of the Ryerson publishing program, Heather began work at Colborne in 2018 as an editing intern. She’s applied her expertise to a range of projects, from corporate marketing materials, websites, and online learning platforms to memoirs, short story collections, and fiction novels. Heather’s passion for storytelling fuelled her completion of a BA (Hons) in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. She loves helping authors bring their stories to life and working with them to create a beautiful final product.
EDITOR
Paula Chiarcos
Paula has been writing and editing for most of her life. She graduated from the University of California’s Professional Sequence in Editing program and joined Editors Canada not long after. She’s been helping authors make their voices heard ever since. She specializes in manuscript evaluations, structural editing, and copy editing, and her experience ranges from children’s books to memoirs to mysteries. When not working, she’s likely tramping through the woods, digging in the garden, or cooking something yummy.
EDITOR
Toby Keymer
Toby joined the Iguana team as an editor in 2019 after completing a degree in Philosophy and Classics at the University of Toronto and taking publishing courses at The Chang School. He has edited everything from numismatics memoirs and psychotherapy workbooks to mystery novels and guides to management strategy. When he’s not flooding your manuscripts with seas of corrections and suggestions, you can find him playing snooker, digging for treasure in Toronto’s used bookstores, or playing keyboards and guitar at a local venue with his band, Blanks.
Editor & Project manager
Cheryl Hawley
Cheryl was supposed to be a journalist, but her favourite class was copy editing so she decided to become an editor instead. After she completed the Centennial College book and magazine publishing program, she interned at Colborne Communications and was hired on as an editor. She’d like to say that the rest is history, but she was laid off in 2008. After spending over a decade as an editor in the book publishing and non-profit worlds, her career has come full circle and happily landed her back at Colborne.