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THE PUBLISHERS


C&M Online Media, Inc with its imprint Boson Books is a melding of backgrounds in writing, publishing, and computer graphics. Boson Books offers selected writers the extraordinary opportunity of global distribution and around-the-clock availability


David McAllister, Senior Vice President and Director of Technical Operations, is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at North Carolina State University, where he taught and specialized in computer graphics, speech processing and multimedia. He has also researched and written in the areas of performance evaluation, numerical analysis, software reliability, and optimization. His current research in the field of computer science is stereo imaging and gaming. He also works in the area of music performer identification and style quantification.

He received the B.S. in mathematics from UNC, Chapel Hill, the M.S. in mathematics from Purdue University, and the Ph.D. in computer science from UNC, Chapel Hill. David has published over one hundred research papers and book chapters and has edited or co-authored two books: one published by Princeton University Press on stereo computer graphics and the other by Prentice-Hall on discrete mathematics.

David is a part-time piano player. In a music review by the L.A. Times, the reviewer singled his performance out for praise. He is interested in presenting multimedia publications to a global audience.

On the subject of online publishing, David McAllister has contributed to two papers presented at SIGDOC a division of the Association for Computing (ACM); a paper in the proceedings of EBOOK '01 sponsored by NIST; and a paper in the proceedings of ISTAS '02. He also presented a seminar for writers at Francis Marion University.


Nancy McAllister, President and Director of Acquisitions, in 1994 with her husband David F. McAllister established C&M Online Media, Inc. and Boson Books.

She was drawn to online publishing because of her history in print publishing. How would online publishing be different from print publishing? What would be the inherent processes for acquisition and editing? For book preparation and distribution? What would be the additional possibilities for digitized text and images? Nancy was the managing editor of Postmodern Culture, the first online journal in the humanities. PMC was published on the Internet before the availability of the World Wide Web.

In 1976, as a celebration of the bicentennial, Nancy began The New South Company to publish the work of a group of Southern poets. The New South Company became a vehicle for publishing several books by Southern authors. Before that she edited both print and film at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta.

Nancy received the M.F.A from the writing school at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. She has published poetry and fiction. She taught writing at UNC-Charlotte and at North Carolina State University. Also at NCSU, she joined a print publishing project as the production and rights chief. The project wrote and published social studies books for the North Carolina Public Schools, eventually partnering with Macmillan.

On the subject of online publishing, Nancy McAllister has contributed to two papers presented at SIGDOC a division of the Association for Computing (ACM). She participated in a panel discussion sponsored by the Conference for Entrepreneurial Development and a presentation to writers at Francis Marion University. She gave a featured presentation at Barnes & Noble. Additionally she has presented a paper at NIST EBOOK '01 and contributed to an ISTAS '02 paper.

Jack Fritz, Director of Outreach and Distribution, received the Ed.D.  at North Carolina State University with graduate degrees in counseling  and adult education. After a career in public health and medical  education, which includes a faculty position in the Department of  Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, he  specializes in consultations in statistical analysis, project  management, and market research. Further, he has served on several  distinguished boards.

Dr. Fritz has been an advisor since 2004 to  Boson Books.