SHERRILL WARK
- Sherrill Wark was a typesetter for 20 years until desktop publishing made her trade extinct.
- In 1969, she started out working on a thing called a “computer” for Ottawa Valley weekly newspapers in Renfrew and Arnprior, then moved to Ottawa where she typeset for private companies for another fourteen years.
- She has worked on everything from menus to scientific journals.
- Typesetting and designing the scientific journals for eight years helped her to absorb even more nerdette-ish editing tips. Not to mention, garnering some great horror story ideas from some of the 18 different journals she worked on: mites, fungi, obscure diseases …
- At the newspapers, she did everything but run a press. In 1975, the computer she worked on required that she write code.
- By the time the scientific journals came along, the industry had advanced to design on screen.
Sherrill is a published writer (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, screenplays) so takes great pride in producing the best possible she can for her clientele.