Nimbus Publishing
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| Founded | 1978 |
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| Country of origin |  Canada |
| Headquarters location | Halifax, NS |
| Distribution | Self-Distributed (Canada) Orca Books (US)[1] |
| Publication types | Books |
| Imprints | Vagrant Press |
| Owner(s) | Terrilee Bulger & Heather Bryan |
| No. of employees | 17 |
| Official website | www.nimbus.ca |
Nimbus Publishing is a Canadian publishing company, founded in 1978, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The company specializes in subjects relevant to the Atlantic Provinces. Nimbus produces more than forty new titles a year on a range of subjects relevant to the Atlantic Provinces— children’s picture books and fiction, literary non-fiction, social and cultural history, nature photography, current events, biography, sports, and cultural issues. Recently, they have sought to expand beyond Atlantic Canada, and have produced further-reaching titles.
Nimbus Publishing is the largest Canadian English-language publisher east of Toronto.[2]
In 2005, Nimbus introduced a new fiction imprint called Vagrant Press[3] and in 2012, John Marshall, the owner of Nimbus, decided to sell the company, while their general manager, Dan Soucoup, announced his retirement. Terrilee Bulger and Heather Bryan, both employees of the company and fearing that it might be bought by a larger publishing house out of Ontario, made the decision to buy the company.
In March 2018, the publishing house moved into a larger warehouse on Strawberry Hill Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The new warehouse features a significantly larger warehouse in order to store their increased numbers of books being released. The building will also feature "Open Book Coffee," a coffee shop which will feature freshly roasted, ethically sourced beans from Java Blend Coffee & the entire catalogue of books from Nimbus Publishing & Vagrant Press.
Notable authors
- Sheree Fitch
- Lesley Crewe
- Shauntay Grant
- Jill Barber
- Cindy Day
- Graham Steele
- Phonse Jessome
- John Boileau
- Bette MacDonald
- Kate Inglis
- Monica Graham
- Ruth Holmes Whitehead
- Starr Dobson
- Paul Hollingsworth
- Janet Kitz
Notable titles
- What I Learned About Politics, by Graham Steele
- Grandma Says, by Cindy Day
- Music is for Everyone, by Jill Barber
- Bud the Spud and Hockey Night Tonight, by Stompin' Tom Connors
- Lasso the Wind, by George Elliott Clarke
- Kiss the Joy as it Flies, by Sheree Fitch
- Kisses, Kisses, Baby-O!, by Sheree Fitch
- Sleeping Dragons All Around, by Sheree Fitch
- Relative Happiness, by Lesley Crewe
- Up Home, by Shauntay Grant
- Out of Old Nova Scotia Kitchens, by Marie Nightingale
- Halifax: Warden of the North, by Thomas Raddall
- Sidney Crosby, by Paul Hollingsworth
- Oak Island Gold, by William S. Crooker
- Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion and the Road to Recovery, by Janet Kitz
- We Were Not the Savages, by Daniel N. Paul
- Sidney Crosby, by Paul Hollingsworth