In alphabetical order:

Bill Hiscocks

Bill qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1953 and joined a firm of London accountants after National Service in the Royal Navy. After 2 years he returned to his father’s accountancy office in Liverpool, later joining a packaging company as Company Secretary and Chief Accountant. After five years he joined Star Aluminium in Wolverhampton, and five years later joined the Slater Walker organisation as General Manager of one of their factories in Birmingham. In 1972 he set up his own practice as a part time Company Secretary and Finance Director to a number of small companies. This has been his occupation ever since. He has worked with a wide range of businesses, in including EyeBooks which was started as TravellersEye 12 years ago.

Dan Hiscocks

Dan is the ‘muppet’ who 10 years ago decided that he wanted to set out on a mission to show that ordinary people can and do achieve extraordinary things. And so Traveller’s Eye was born (to later become Eye Books). Dan believes that we live in an increasingly mechanised world which is far too celebrity driven and the purpose of Eye Books is to champion people like you and me who have got off their **se and done something pretty amazing. Dan is more interested in those peoples stories than what Brooklyn Beckham’s latest diet is about. The world is huge and out there for living and Dan and Eye Books want to celebrate people who do this as opposed to what most of us do which is simply exist. Dan is currently having an amazing time in Boston where the next generation of Eye Books authors and supporters are being discovered.

Sally Hodges

Sally is our Operations Assistant, without whom our company would be lost, just like her keys. She enjoys being up ladders.

James Male

Jim has a new computer.

Josie Stapleton

Josie started working in publicity at Can of Worms Enterprises in June and she also works for the Maggie Noach Literary Agency, where she has been since 2005. Josie cycles across London (on her pink, slightly rusty and hopefully unappealing bike) to get to work and is a member of the COW badminton club. She loves the outdoors and goes home to Devon as often as possible.

Tobias Steed

Tobias Steed founded Can of Worms Publishing Ltd in 2001 to encompass a veritable can of worms of interests both personal and professional. Prior to establishing Can of Worms Enterprises with Dan Hiscocks, Can of Worms Publishing provided consulting services to publishers and other internet and over the air broadcast media companies; graphic design services; and book publishing under the Can of Worms Press and Can of Worms Kids Press imprints.

Tobias Steed was also co-founder of Compass American Guides (now wholly owned by Fodor’s Travel Publications, Random House, NY) which he and his partners sold to Random House in 1992. Following a period as Associate Publisher of Fodor’s and Director of New Media at Random House, Tobias returned to England to work for Rupert Murdoch’s News International. In 1999 he left to write Hollywood Cocktails for Mitchell Beazley and record an album ‘Automatic Writing’ with the Catalonian jazz trio, The MJ’s, produced by Andy Cox of the Fine Young Cannibals. Tobias now divides his time into lots of tiny pieces.

Helen Steer

Helen left the world of mainstream publishing behind in June 2008 when she moved to London to start working for Can of Worms Enterprises. Ostensibly the Project Manager, a typical day can include editorial, design, production, publicity, web and trying to make the boiler work, as well as managing the delightful herds of interns. She is a cycling fanatic, and can often be seen zooming around South London on Moll, her beloved orange bike. She loves cooking, shenanigans, and reading comics, and her dislikes include writing about herself in the third person.

Georgina Sylvester

Georgina is our long-suffering accountant, and a lady of eternal mystery. Meaning, of course, that she won’t give us any information to put on the website.

We also have a rotating cast of guest star interns. Currently they are:

Emily Atkins

Emily is currently studying MA Communication Design (a fancy title for graphic design) at Central St Martins. She is a bit of a typography geek and when she’s not reading up on all things design related she is attempting to learn to scuba dive.

Jonathan Katona

Jonathan is yet another American intern working for Can of Worms. He finished his English and Philosophy degree at Durham University with the certain knowledge that little money would come of it. Which has proved to be true. Jonathan shares the wealth of his talent with two other publishers when he is not working for Can of Worms, or working the streets of southeast London. He enjoys lunch breaks, Surrealism, muddy music festivals, linguistics, following the word of mouth, and Vietnamese takeaways. His dislikes include autobiographical writing, dental adverts, moral idealists and alarm clocks. If you would like some more relevant information, you’ll have to work for it.

Sarah-Jane Poletti

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Elisheva Sokolic

Elisheva finished her English Literature degree at Queen Mary, University of London in June 2009, and came to visit Can of Worms for 2 weeks. Somehow, she hasn’t left yet. Is she here to fulfill potential publishing employers incessant and slightly sadistic need for work experience, or simply to bully Jim into giving up his death sticks? Either way, her headscarves brighten up the office. Elisheva also likes mentally one-upping your unimaginative adjectives, oh and she enjoys talking about herself in the third person.