Deana Driver is an award-winning author, editor, book publisher, and retired journalist who worked as a freelance journalist for 30 years. She wrote her first book in 2001 and turned to book publishing fulltime in 2008 as the founder and CEO of DriverWorks Ink publishing. The company specializes in inspiring non-fiction books about Prairie people and publishes other genres connected to non-fiction stories. Deana (pronounced dee-na) has written five non-fiction books: The Sailor and the Christmas Trees - A True Story; Never Leave Your Wingman: Dionne and Graham Warner's Story of Hope; From The West to the World: The Story of Underwood McLellan/UMA Group; Never Give Up: Ted Jaleta's Inspiring Story; and Just a Bunch of Farmers: The Story of Weyburn Inland Terminal 1976-2001. She has also contributed pieces to eight other books, all published by her company, DriverWorks Ink: Flight: Stories of Canadian Aviation, Volume 1 and Flight: Stories of Canadian Aviation, Volume 2, Cream Money: Stories of Prairie People, Fun On The Farm: True Tales of Farm Life, Fun On The Farm Too: True Tales of Farm Life, Prairie Pilot: Lady Luck Was on My Side, Egg Money, and Dear Me: The Widow Letters. Since she wrote her first book in 2001, Deana has published or co-published more than 60 titles written by Saskatchewan and other Prairie writers including herself. Her passion is for true stories that help others lead better lives. In addition to non-fiction biographies, she publishes non-fiction spiritual healing and wellness, children's fiction, rural humour, and cowboy poetry. Many of those genres are based on non-fiction stories.
Since 1981, more than 2,300 of Deana's feature and news articles have been published in more than 25 Canadian magazines and newspapers including The Regina Leader-Post, Medical Post, The Lawyers Weekly, The United Church Observer and The Bottom Line. Her photography skills have been used to accompany her freelance magazine articles and book projects. Deana retired from freelance journalism in 2013 to concentrate on book publishing.
Deana is a member of the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild and SaskBooks (Saskatchewan Publishers Group). She regularly makes presentations to school students, libraries, and other audiences about writing, publishing, and DriverWorks Ink books. Since 1998, Deana Driver has been listed in Who's Who of Canadian Women and Canadian Who's Who. Deana enjoys photography, gardening, bike riding, and spending time with her children and grandchildren.
Since 1981, more than 2,300 of Deana's feature and news articles have been published in more than 25 Canadian magazines and newspapers including The Regina Leader-Post, Medical Post, The Lawyers Weekly, The United Church Observer and The Bottom Line. Her photography skills have been used to accompany her freelance magazine articles and book projects. Deana retired from freelance journalism in 2013 to concentrate on book publishing.
Deana is a member of the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild and SaskBooks (Saskatchewan Publishers Group). She regularly makes presentations to school students, libraries, and other audiences about writing, publishing, and DriverWorks Ink books. Since 1998, Deana Driver has been listed in Who's Who of Canadian Women and Canadian Who's Who. Deana enjoys photography, gardening, bike riding, and spending time with her children and grandchildren.
Books written by Deana J. Driver:
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SOME OF THE BOOKS WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY DEANA J. DRIVER:
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Lisa Driver is an an award-winning author with a degree in Communications and Marketing (with distinction) from the University of Calgary. She assists DriverWorks Ink in marketing and communications as well as in assessing manuscripts, and editing and proofreading manuscripts, book layouts, and marketing materials. Lisa is also the author of three books published by DriverWorks Ink (Opening Up: How to Develop Your Intuition and Work With Your Angels; Leap! How to Overcome Doubt, Fear, And Grief & Choose The Path of Joy; and Boundaries and Bucket-Filling: How To Say No To Others and Yes To You). Lisa's fourth spiritual guidebook book will be released in 2021. She is also a contributing writer to Fun on the Farm Too: True Tales of Farm Life. Lisa is a busy young mother who is an entrepreneur with her own spiritual healing and freelance writing business in Medicine Hat.
Dani Driver has a Bachelor of Education and a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Regina. She assists in vetting manuscripts, proofreading and copy editing DriverWorks Ink manuscripts, books layouts and marketing materials. She provides advice on social media and book content specific to educational markets. She created illustrations for one of our children’s chapter books (Seeds of Hope: A Prairie Story), and advises on cover designs and assists with fulfilling book orders. She is a young mother and a voracious reader who also enjoys gardening.
Mary Harelkin Bishop is an award-winning, bestselling author who assists DriverWorks Ink in vetting manuscripts and in editing and proofreading manuscripts, book layouts and marketing materials. Mary has been a Saskatoon teacher, teacher-librarian, and educational consultant with the Saskatoon Public Schools. She is the author of the award-winning Tunnels of Moose Jaw Adventures children's classics, which DriverWorks Ink began updating and republishing in 2020 with Tunnels of Time: Moose Jaw Time Travel Adventure #1. Her other award-winning books published by DriverWorks Ink are Skye Bird and the Eagle Feather, Mistasiniy: Buffalo Rubbing Stone, Gina's Wheels, and Seeds of Hope: A Prairie Story. Mary advises on the content and culturally appropriate language in DriverWorks Ink books and is a contributing writer to both volumes of the Flight: Stories of Canadian Aviation and the Fun on the Farm: True Tales of Farm Life series. She is the mother of two and grandmother of two who enjoys being physically active and working with novice writers.
Al Driver was an editor with more than 30 years of experience in the Canadian newspaper industry. After taking early retirement in 2008 from his position as news editor of the Regina Leader-Post, he joined DriverWorks Ink full-time in 2010. He was co-editor and co-publisher of numerous DriverWorks Ink titles and was in charge of order fulfilment. He especially enjoyed talking about and selling DriverWorks Ink books at trade shows and other events. Al also edited Saskatchewan Roughriders - First 100 Years by various authors, and Junior Hockey's Royal Franchise: The Regina Pats by Darrell Davis and Ron Johnston. Al died in January 2016 after a short illness with colon cancer. He is greatly missed and will never be forgotten. His mark on DriverWorks Ink and our books will continue to be felt for decades.
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