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• About Philip Turner–Professional Background – The Great Gray Bridge

  Finding a Foothold in New York City This page of personal recollections of my path into publishing picks up where Philip Turner–Personal History ended, a web page complimentary to this one, about my y...

• About Philip Turner Book Productions – The Great Gray Bridge

  I am excited to announce that since January 2020 my son Ewan Turner has been working as Managing Editor of Philip Turner Book Productions, the editorial services consultancy/literary agency I have bee...

• Philip Turner–Personal History – The Great Gray Bridge

  Some of the things I am: blogger; curator; writer; reader; editor; Internet & and print publisher; music lover; phonograph player; radio collector, honourary Canadian; product of experimental educatio...

• From Philip Turner Book Productions—Looking Back on 2020 and Ahead for 2021 – The Great Gray Bridge

  Readers of this blog may recall that last summer I announced here that my adult son Ewan Turner had joined Philip Turner Book Productions as Managing Editor, heading up a new division called New Stor...

• Chuck Verrill, Editor and Agent, RIP – The Great Gray Bridge

  Went to a memorial today for Chuck Verrill, longtime editor at Viking Press, and later agent for many great books. Held at the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, the brief speeches by friends and colleag...

• Looking Back on 2022, Another Good Year in Editing and Agenting – The Great Gray Bridge

  Yesterday I began totaling up the volume of business for Philip Turner Book Productions in 2022, to prepare to send agency clients full accounting of monies we received from publishers for them in 202...