Emma Donoghue's Room received more acclaim on Feb. 28 when Brie Larson, star of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning novel's film adaptation – for which Donoghue wrote the screenplay – ... Read More »
Imajin Books publisher Cheryl Tardif has acquired world English rights to Operation Babylift, the second mystery novella in Brantford, Ontario, author Catherine Astolfo’s Kira Callaghan series. The title will appear under the Imajin Qwickies imprint this ... Read More »
February 29, 2016
How to become an Amazon best-selling author for $3, in five minutes. (Observer) Confronting dictionary sexism after January's "rabid feminist" Twitter backlash. (The New Yorker) Donald Trump promises to give Jeff Bezos and Amazon "such ... Read More »
February 29, 2016 | Filed under: Book links
Hornblower Group Inc., the Toronto and Montreal-based publisher representative agency, announced that Laurie Martella is now a partner and ... Read More »
February 25, 2016
Toronto children's publisher Annick Press has teamed up with learning company Pearson Canada on an endeavour that will see more Canadian children's books in classrooms. Starting April 1, Annick Classroom Collections – comprising a number ... Read More »
February 25, 2016
The Association of Book Publishers of B.C. has announced that executive director Margaret Reynolds is retiring, effective Oct. 1. During a tenure that lasted nearly 30 years, Reynolds spearheaded such milestone initiatives as securing a ... Read More »
February 25, 2016
Victoria, B.C., journalist Andrew MacLeod has been named a finalist for the 2016 George Ryga Award for social awareness in literature for A Better Place on Earth: The Search for Fairness in Super Unequal British ... Read More »
February 25, 2016 | Filed under: Awards
Amazon seeks Canadian patent for used ebook marketplace. (The Digital Reader) Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji jailed for two years for "sexually explicit" writing. (CNN) New X-Files YA book series to follow adventures of teen Mulder ... Read More »
February 25, 2016 | Filed under: Book links
Penguin Random House Canada has acquired North American English rights to the next novel from Giller Prize–winning author Linden MacIntyre. The Only Café explores a son’s search for the truth about his father’s disappearance five years ... Read More »
February 24, 2016
Best-selling legal-thriller author John Grisham pens "the most important book of his career," advertising medical technology. (The Washington Post) Russia, where every children's book has to get the Institute of Health and Hygiene's O.K., and ... Read More »
February 24, 2016 | Filed under: Book links
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