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GAIL SPILSBURY
Gail Spilsbury founded Bergamot Books in 2003 to develop, edit, and print art historical books. In 2011, Bergamot expanded to handle print-on-demand and e-books in the humanities, in addition to offering full editorial services to authors and publishers.​ Gail has been a career book editor for the Smithsonian Institution, the National Gallery of Art, National Geographic, and the Peabody Essex Museum. As editor in chief for Bergamot Books, she has helped numerous authors develop and write their books.
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Gail is the author of the novel Natalie & Antonella in Rome (also translated into Italian); There Are Places (short stories); Visits (chapbook); That Year in Boston (novel); Sabina Quartet (novel, also translated into Italian); two children’s books Tiger of the Caesars and Sid’s Book about Me; and two cultural landscape histories, A Washington Sketchbook and Rock Creek Park.​ Three of Gail’s screenplays have been optioned, and she has written numerous film reviews for the Boston City Paper, archived here. She wrote the contemporary fiction podcast series Red Line (also available on iTunes “Redline Boston Fiction Series”) and recorded two readings of her work: “Remembering Margaret Fuller” and “Visits,” both available on YouTube.
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Gail lives in Boston and recently taught at Emerson College in the Writing, Literature, and Publishing department.
INDU SHANMUGAM
Indu Shanmugam is an editor and marketing professional whose life across Dubai, India, the United States, Singapore, and Argentina inform her interest in stories shaped by place, memory, and cultural exchange. She is the founder of Perse Marketing, where she partners with publishers and authors on strategic marketing, publicity, and editorial development.
Her career spans teaching, literary editing, and organizational leadership, including her role as Boston Chapter Coordinator for the Editorial Freelancers Association. She also served as Associate Fiction Editor at Pangyrus. Indu holds an M.S. in Publishing from Portland State University, with additional study in rhetoric, composition, and literary criticism.
Indu lives in Massachusetts with her family, and spends her time at the gym, baking, or being surrounded by fine books and wine.
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Gail’s article in the Boston Globe on Monhegan, Maine’s historic colony of plein air painters
Gail’s film reviews for the Boston City Paper are archived at gailspilsbury.blogspot.com, sample review
"A Portuguese Novelist Writes in English," in It’s All About Arts Magazine
Cartographer Gene Schele writes about the Washington Sketchbook