Endless Summer Publishing Pty Ltd is an independent publishing company, established in 2002. Spirit of Regional Australia is a wholly owned title of Endless Summer Publishing, produced for distribution aboard QantasLink turboprop services.
Editor/Publisher: Paul Manias
Assistant Editor/Publisher: Helen Manias
Paul and Helen have been publishing in Australia since 1990, firstly with The Queenslander for Sunstate Airlines (1990 – 2001) and then Endless Summer from 2003 – 2009. They were twice winners of the Queensland Tourism Awards for Media and a Finalist on a further six occasions. They have also won the National Print Awards for their other work and they have produced a range of guides, conference planners and brochures for regional and State tourism authorities; the official guide for CHOGM 2001 for the Dept. of the Prime Minister & Cabinet; twelve editions of Your Guide for Brisbane International Airport and last year jointly published the Pacific Coast Touring Guide.
Both Paul and Helen previously worked for the British Consumers Association in London, Paul on Holiday Which? magazine. Paul has also written a guidebook to Spain (The Organiser Co.) and another on The Americas (Octopus) as well as contributing to numerous other guidebooks.
In 2008 Endless Summer Publishing produced the biography of the legendary O’Reilly mountain pioneer family, Spirit of the O’Reillys by Peter O’Reilly. |