by Attila Berki

Shop Talk: Cross & Crows Books

Shop Talk is an occasional feature in which fledgling independent booksellers take Q&Q into their stores and share their reasons for opening and what business has been like so far. Cross & Crows Books 2836 ... Read More »

August 30, 2023

Susan Musgrave and Sue Sinclair shortlisted for the 2022 Derek Walcott Poetry Prize

By Attila Berki

Two Canadians are among the 15 finalists for this year's Derek Walcott Poetry Prize: B.C. poet Susan Musgrave for her collection Exculpatory Lilies (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House Canada), which was shortlisted for the 2023 ... Read More »

August 28, 2023

Rights Deals: Sylvia McNicoll, Nina Berkhout + ten more

By Attila Berki

DCB publisher Barry Jowett has acquired English in North America rights to Sylvia McNicoll’s Blue to the Sky. The middle grade novel is described as the story of Ella, who, after six years of homeschooling ... Read More »

August 28, 2023

The Booker effect in Canada

By Attila Berki

This year’s Booker Prize longlist includes two titles for which independent presses have Canadian rights. This is also the third time since 2019 that Windsor, Ontario, indie Biblioasis has held North American rights to a ... Read More »

August 23, 2023

Excerpt: In Defence of Copyright

By Attila Berki

The following is an excerpt from In Defence of Copyright by Hugh Stephens (Cormorant Books, August 2023) Copyright has been developed over the past three hundred years, drawing on both a utilitarian, economic rationale rooted ... Read More »

August 23, 2023

Janie Yoon to join Doubleday Canada

By Attila Berki

Penguin Random House Canada has announced that Janie Yoon will be joining Doubleday Canada in mid-September as editorial director of the Bond Street Books imprint. Yoon previously was executive editor at Simon & Schuster, where ... Read More »

August 23, 2023

2023 Prix Aurora Awards winners announced

By Attila Berki

The 2023 Prix Aurora Awards were announced on Saturday, August 19th in an online event. The awards, honouring the best in science fiction, fantasy, or horror genres in English, are administered by the Canadian Science ... Read More »

August 23, 2023