About Us
Our team consists of Mary and her two daughters, Anna and Sophia. We are proudly a family business with over 50 years experience in the book publishing industry.
Mary Egan
Mary and her husband the late Gerard Reid established Egan-Reid Limited in the early 1990s. Since then Mary has typeset, print-managed, edited and designed more than a thousand books for major publishers in New Zealand and overseas. Mary has always had a love of books. She started her working life as a librarian and developed a career in publishing with a focus on high-quality books, this has earned her the respect of the NZ publishing industry. In 2012 Mary joined the New Zealand Post Book Awards judging panel. Read more about Mary’s background here.
Mary is the mother of Anna and Sophia and has a son, Joshua, who lives in Perth. She is the proud grandmother of Clare, Louis, Elena and Cohen.
Mary lives in Mangawhai Heads with her dogs Dottie and Ted.
Anna Egan-Reid
Anna is a graphic designer with over 20 years’ experience in the book industry. She paid her way through university by illustrating for Australian publisher Elsevier and the Samoan Government. After completing a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and English at the University of Otago, she travelled before returning to begin her career as a designer and typesetter.
Trained initially by Mary at Egan-Reid Ltd, and later at Pindar, Anna spent two years as an in-house designer at Penguin Books (NZ) before joining the family venture, Mary Egan Publishing.
She has been shortlisted for several PANZ Book Design Awards and won Best Non-Illustrated Book in 2012 for Janet Frame: In Her Own Words. Her work earned her the title of Allen & Unwin Young Designer of the Year in 2016, and in 2017 she joined the PANZ Book Design Awards judging panel.
Anna lives in West Auckland with her partner Tom and their two sons, Louis and Cohen.
Sophia Egan-Reid
Sophia founded Mary Egan Publishing following a business plan written by her father, Gerard Reid, while he was dying. His idea was simple: work with good people, make beautiful books, and do it as a family.
Sophia grew up around publishing, with her parents running a home office and staff coming and going. She began her working life in an administrative role at Egan-Reid Limited, which later developed into an Office Manager role. When the company was sold to Pindar NZ, she went on to run the self-publishing department, before leaving to establish Mary Egan Publishing.
She oversees projects from initial scoping and pricing through to production, print and delivery, and is usually the main point of contact for authors. She won Young Publisher of the Year at the 2018 Booksellers Industry Awards.
Sophia lives in Northland with her husband James, and dogs Gus and Peaches
