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“Everything has a story.” 

Chris Wood’s interests are as wide-angle as his life experience. Born in small-town southern Ontario in 1953, Chris spent part of his childhood in Latin America, a year of his adolescence in Japan and periods since in rural Atlantic Canada, downtown Toronto, suburban north Texas and afloat just off the coast of British Columbia. He has spent his professional life writing about a similarly eclectic range of compelling personalities, places and ideas.  

A full-time writer for over twenty-five years, Chris contributed radio documentaries to CBC and articles to a string of national print publications before joining the staff of Maclean’s in 1985. As National Editor, Business Editor, U.S. and later Pacific-rim correspondent, as national technology correspondent and a senior writer, Chris contributed scores of cover and inside stories to the magazine on subjects ranging from Catholics in crisis to children who kill. He also managed numerous special projects, including the magazine’s Olympic coverage and its launch of a pioneering Chinese-language edition. 

Since returning in 2001 to his first love as a freelance writer, Chris has completed three books, one of them short-listed for the 2005 Donner Prize for the best book on Canadian public policy (see bibliography). He continues to write for magazines and corporate clients, and develops other media and event properties  through his company, White Dog Creative Inc..  

Chris is available for major and minor writing assignments as well as media and communications consulting. 

 

Author

(see bibliography)  

 

Freelance writer

            Work has appeared in: The Tyee.ca, The Walrus, Maclean’s, Readers Digest, Globe and Mail, Financial Post, Canadian Living, Canadian Business, Funk & Wagnall Encyclopedia 

 

Ghost-writer

            (see bibliography) 

 

Audio narration and voice-over

            Nationally syndicated weekly radio commentary 1979-1986 (CBC Radio) and producer/narrator of numerous radio documentaries in same period 

 

Communications consulting

            Hill and Knowlton, City of Saint John N.B.; through sub-contracts, Vancouver Board of Trade, City of North York Ont. 

 

Media training

            Through sub-contracts has worked for Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank of Canada, Municipalities of Port Moody and Coquitlam (City Soup Society) 

 

Corporate communications

            Waterford Press Inc., Irving Transportation Group; through sub-contract, Blue Cross Ontario

 

Bibliography

 

Non-fiction: 

2004 (Winter)

Blockbusters and Trade Wars: Popular Culture in a Globalized World

By Peter S. Grant and Chris Wood

Douglas & McIntyre, ISBN 1-55365-009-3 

Le Marché des Étoiles: Culture Populaire et Mondialisation

Peter S. Grant et Chris Wood

Boréal, ISBN 2-7646-0293-6

 

2000 

Live to Air: The Craig Broadcast Story

By Chris Wood

Douglas & McIntyre, ISBN 1-55054-774-7

 

Ghosted: 

Enquire for details

(for Douglas & McIntyre)  

Fiction: 

2004 

DogStar

By Beverley Wood and Chris Wood                Polestar, ISBN 1-55192-638-5      (previously ISBN 1-896095-37-2, Polestar, 1997)

 

2005  

Jack’s Knife

By Beverley Wood and Chris Wood;                 Polestar, ISBN 1-55192-709-8   

 Coming in the same series: Golden Boy (2006)

 

Reviews & Critical Praise

 

“Disarmingly even-handed. Its authors…have the expertise and intellectual range to take this conversation beyond the rhetoric in which it has been mired. “The biggest questions Grant and Wood leave me with are rather pleasant ones: Should their book be required reading for our cultural or trade bureaucrats? Should it be soap to wash out mouths at the Canada Action Party or the Fraser Institute? The answer, of course, is that they all need to read it. And so do a lot of other Canadians, who’ll find that being better informed changes the landscape.” Brian Fawcett, The Globe and Mail Books April 3rd, 2003

 

Block Busters and Trade Wars

“One would be hard pressed to find, among all the books written on the subject, a more perceptive insight into this intriguing business.”

                                                Ron Atkey, Literary Review of Canada; April, 2004

 

“Extraordinarily well-written.”

                                                Donner Foundation (nomination short-list)  April, 2005

 

“This fascinating book… is the most ambitious of its kind to be written in Canada.  “Vastly more sophisticated and wide-ranging than Vancouver journalist Max Wyman’s new book from the same publisher.  “Belongs on the shelf of everyone interested in the future of Canadian cultural industries.”

                                                Morley Walker,  Winnipeg Free Press; 18 April, 2004

 

Le Marché des Étoiles  “Rien de moins que la nouvelle bible de référence sur le thème «culture populaire et mondialisation»”          Stéphane Baillargeon          Le Devoir, 19 fev. 2004  “Ce livre-là est une arme. C’est l’arme de l’intelligence.”          Pierre Curzon             quoted by Stéphane Despatie          Voir; Vol. 18, No. 10

 

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