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Testimonials

 
 

Paul Bangay OAM

Landscape designer and author

 

‘My publishing journey with Julie has involved nine books and twenty years of working together. I owe so much of my career to these books and Julie’s invaluable guidance and help in producing them. With every book she not only brings out the best in me but is instrumental in the look, feel and content. To say she is inspirational would be an understatement. Without her input my books may firstly have never appeared, but if they had, they would never be the success they are today.’

 

Monique Farmer

Life editor, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age

 

‘It has been a delight to work with Julie once again on The Good Food Guide, a relationship that began many years ago when she was Publisher at Penguin, and more recently as the book's publisher at Simon & Schuster.

Julie brings passion and exceptional knowledge to everything she does. She understands the value of brands, she is driven by creating high-quality products, she gets the best out of the creatives that work with her. 

Julie also worked with us on the launch of the Good Food cookbook (second one releasing October 2020), using her vast experience as a highly successful publisher of cookbooks to help curate the recipes and deliver the first book to a tight production timeline.’

 

Kylie Kwong

Chef and author

 

‘Quite simply, Julie is a pioneer in the Australian publishing industry. She has created and led the era of food and lifestyle publishing in Australia during her thirty plus years in the industry. Building an iconic brand, Lantern, that elevated cookbooks and lifestyle titles to beautiful, bold works of art, Julie did what no publisher had done before.

Julie always champions her authors’ style, voice and message. She’s incredibly loyal and devoted, constantly going above and beyond her professional paid commitments, spending countless hours of her personal time doing what needs to be done to craft the perfect book. 

In my opinion, Julie is an artist herself. She truly understands the ‘creative process’ and hence is able to bring out the very best in each individual. 

Julie also has a great head for business, budgets and marketing. You do not usually find someone with all of these qualities rolled into one. 

In my opinion Julie Gibbs is revolutionary in shaping the way we Australians eat and live.’

 

Dan Ruffino

Managing director, Simon & Schuster

 

‘Julie Gibbs is a great friend and trusted partner to us at Simon & Schuster Australia, having published eight cookbooks with us so far, including the award-winning and bestselling, Maggie’s Recipe for Life by Maggie Beer; Nadine Ingram’s acclaimed Flour and Stone, now into its third reprint; and a revised and expanded edition of Christine Manfield’s Tasting India, sold by Simon & Schuster sister companies around the world.  

Julie also managed every painstaking detail involved in publishing two bestselling and heavily embargoed national Good Food Guides for Nine Media, delivering us print-ready files on time and under budget. The relationship with Nine Media has now expanded to two beautiful and successful Good Food Cookbooks.

Julie’s work is always of the highest standard and she is an absolute joy and pleasure to work with.’

 
 

Judith Stewart

Founder, Unpaused

 

‘Julie Gibbs is someone I should have known all my life, but didn’t meet until after her publishing career at Lantern was over. Since then, she has been an impeccable source of wisdom on books I must read, people I must meet, food I must taste, places I must go and, most importantly, the work I must do. Everyone needs a Julie Gibbs in their life.’