ABOUT MACINTYRE PURCELL PUBLISHING INC

MACINTYRE PURCELL PUBLISHING INC. was established by John MacIntyre and Martha Walls in 2004.

John MacIntyre and Martha Walls had the idea for a Nova Scotia book back in 2000. They wanted to buy and read a book about Nova Scotia that offered the skinny . . . the low-down. They wanted to know what people earned, what they spent their hard earned cash on, who and what were the icons, the local slang, and so on. In short, they wanted a book they would read. When they couldn't find it, they simply went ahead and wrote a book they called The Nova Scotia Book of Everything.

What they found out was that they were not alone. Nova Scotians wanted the book too. The Nova Scotia book not only became a bestseller but a national bestseller, a huge achievement in a small market. What MacIntyre and Walls have done is take that same commitment to getting the low-down to new places.

The guiding philosophy has always been that a place is revealed not by a government slogan or a tourism pitch but by the accumulation of detail. You can get hotel and restaurant prices from any of the countless guidebooks or brochures, but if you are interested in what a place is about then that is where we come in.

JOHN MACINTYRE is a journalist with more than 15 years experience as a writer and editor. He is a former magazine editor-in-chief and the author of two books. He has been published in newspapers and magazines across the country, including the Globe and Mail, Montreal Gazette, and Canadian Lawyer. His Syndicated statistics column Figuratively Speaking appears in more than 65 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada.

MARTHA WALLS is actually now Dr. Martha Walls. She teaches history at the University of New Brunswick. She is the author of The Newfoundland and Labrador Book of Everything, New Brunswick Book of Everything and is the co-author of the Nova Scotia Book of Everything. She is the editorial director of MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.