Our Team

  • Brian Roberts, President

    Brian Roberts retired from Law as Senior Partner with Borden, Ladner, Gervais, Securities and Corporate in Calgary, Alberta in 2014 and together with Judith Pittman formed Canadian publisher BWL Publishing Inc. with a focus on providing opportunities for Canadian authors wanting to publish their books with a Canadian publisher.  

  • JD Shipton, Vice President and Supervising Editor

    Born and raised Albertan, English Lit major from the University of Calgary, RCAF Captain (ret), and currently splits his time flying helicopters, learning the publishing business, editing, learning to code, and, as ever, reading.  With so many inspirational authors to work with, writing might also find itself in the queue. 

  • Jude Pittman, Corporate Secretary and Publisher

    Judith (Jude) is the Publisher for BWL Publishing Inc.  BWL is an Independent Canadian Publisher and member of the Association of Canadian Publishers BWL specializes in audio, digital and print fiction with a special focus on publishing novels with Canadian settings. especially those with an emphasis on early Canadian history. 

  • Jay Lang, Marketing Representative

    Jay Lang grew up on the ocean, Reed and Vancouver Island before moving to Vancouver to work as a TV, film and commercial actress. She left the industry for university where she fell in love with creative writing. Jay divides her time between writing suspense thrillers and handling marketing and promotion business for BWL

  • Nancy M. Bell, Acquisitions Manager and Senior Editor

    Nancy is the author of multiple books including young adult and adult series novels and stand alone novels.  Nancy is a proud Albertan and lives in Alberta with her husband and various critters. She is an animal rights advocate and has worked with and fostered rescue animals.  Nancy is a member of The Writers Union of Canada and the Writers Guild of Alberta.

  • Gail Branan, Editor

    Gail Branan lives a double life as a paralegal by day, and a writer by night.  Under the pseudonym Gail Roughton, she’s multi-published with credits including the War-N-Wit, Inc. series, Raising Cain, Vanished, and Country Justice, the first book in the Southern Justice series.

  • Susan Davis, Editor

    Susan has been an editor and author for many years working with small and mid-sized publishers. Using  the pseudonym S. Peters Davis she writes page-turning supernatural thrillers.  Her novels are high intensity thrillers combined with ghost stories and romance.

  • Renee Duke, Editor

    Editor Renee Duke grew up in Ontario/B.C., Canada and Berkshire, England. After retiring from her work as an Early Childhood Educator, she still does occasional interactive history units with 6- to 12-year-olds at an after-school care centre but is otherwise retired and able to concentrate on writing.

  • Victoria Chatham, Editor

    Editor Victoria Chatham was born in Bristol, England, where she grew up in an area rife with the elegance of Regency architecture. Victoria is an avid reader and writer of Regency romance and is currently working on a series of cozy historical mysteries set in England..  

  • Susan Anderson-Coyle, Editor

    Susan Anderson-Coyle is a retired teacher who studied at the University of Calgary, Susan keeps her hand in the literary world by editing for BWL.

  • Michelle Lee, Art Director

    Michelle Lee is a cover artist for BWL Publishing Inc.  Creating graphics is a labor of love.  As much as she may complain about creating covers for certain genres - there is a simple joy in creating a cover.  With her designs, she hopes to provide the wrapping for the gift an author creates.