Bob Harwood, partner, author, photographer; Pam Woodland, partner, book designer/production artist
Harland Press
Bob and Pam established Harland Press in 2004 to publish a small volume Bob wrote called A Rake’s Progress, which discussed the song "The Unfortunate Rake,” its origins, and early recorded music.
As an experienced book designer Pam was able to produce the book, and with the help of publishing on demand, printed it.
After several years of further research, Bob wrote a second book that took the previous one to new depths and understanding. This is I Went Down to St James Infirmary. Published in 2008, this book expands on the initial subject of A Rake’s Progress but takes a deeper look at the early years of the music industry through the exploration of the origins of the title song.
Whereas the initial title was printed strictly for friends and family, this major revision reached out as far as our ability to promote and distribute it (via the web and locally) allowed. It went to a second print, and this winter (2011/12) Bob is working on a further major revision and expantion based on ongoing research.
Since then Harland Press has continued to publish books written by interested clients as well as friends and family members. These are books we enjoy and want to share with whomever may be interested.
Photobooks
With the advent of affordable 4-colour printing (primarily through Blurb’s on-line photobook service) Harland Press is able to add photography books to our titles. We have published two test titles in the form of photo-notebooks and the quality of the product is very good. We intend on publishing more colour books of both photographs and paintings in the future.
Production and design
Pam began practicing typography in 1983, producing type for many of the small presses in Vancouver, BC, initially in the publishing industry.
Keeping up with the changing technology allowed her to explore a variety of print media and after years producing
advertising material, magazines, annual reports, etc., she has, since 2001, been exclusively designing and
producing books and their covers for a variety of presses. This is the stuff she loves to do.
Samples of work for other presses are posted on her bookwork site.
If anyone has written a book they’d like to see in print and produced to a high standard, we would be happy to discuss how we may help you to do that.
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