 Her work has been widely published, appearing in the "Toronto Star", "The Globe and Mail", "Billboard", "Salon", the "National Post", "Utne Reader" and others.In 2001, Hughes was recruited by Seattle online merchant Amazon.com to oversee the launch of its Canadian arm, Amazon.ca.Hughes now works as Amazon.ca's music content editor and continues to write reviews of books and music for Amazon.com and Amazon.ca, as well as the "Star", "Report on Business Magazine" and others.