When asked what her favourite part of the job is, Allie’s answer made everyone laugh. “This is going to sound funny,” she explained, “but my favourite part of the job is actually the totally random, bizarre challenges that pop-up during production.” Not that those happen often, she reassures! 

For example, when looking for Peru’s flag on a stock image site, Allie came across three different versions. She picked the one that best worked for the cover she was mocking up, and that was that. Until she decided to do a bit more research into the three-flag phenomenon. What she found showed she had picked Peru’s War Flag. Who knew there was even such a thing! An e-mail to Peru’s tourism bureau to clarify which flag she should use cleared up the problem…and ensured that our client didn’t inadvertently declare war on another country!

Allie has been an editor with Matrix Group Publishing Inc. for nearly a decade. In that time, she has worked with new and seasoned clients, has skillfully stepped in as Editor-in-Chief to cover a maternity leave, and throughout all the day-to-day tasks that magazine publishing brings, she is calm and easy to work with.

This even includes when Basin Bits, one of our largest magazines, is in production. Allie worked on the very first issue and has been instrumental in its growth. “Basin Bits was my very first magazine,” she recalls. “The first issue was 28 pages and the third issue was 136! It was such a challenge and huge undertaking to put together a magazine that was five times bigger than the first issue. To see it all come together and flip through the pages when it came back from press was such a huge accomplishment and I still remember that feeling a decade later!”