Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who has already published two books for adults – 2013's An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth and 2014's You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes in 2014 – ... Read More »
December 16, 2015
Greystone Books associate publisher Nancy Flight has acquired Canadian rights to Let Them Eat Dirt: How Our Quest for Clean is Making Our Children Sick by University of British Columbia biology professor B. Brett Finlay ... Read More »
December 16, 2015
Owlkids Books has announced that effective Jan. 11, 2016, Debbie Rogosin will assume the position of acting editorial director for the duration of Karen Li's maternity leave. Rogosin comes to the company with more than ... Read More »
December 16, 2015
Effective January 2016, Stephanie Sinclair at the Transatlantic Agency will ... Read More »
December 16, 2015
Merriam-Webster fails to look up the definition of "suffix," makes "ism" its word of the year. (NPR) The number of Chicago high schools with a 90 per cent or more African American student body that ... Read More »
December 16, 2015 | Filed under: Book links
First Generation Films has announced it has optioned television rights to Toronto comics artist Jeff Lemire's Essex County, a trilogy of short graphic novels published by Georgia-based Top Shelf Productions. Aaron Martin (Degrassi: The Next ... Read More »
Canadian authors Margaret Atwood and Margaret MacMillan, along with Montreal photographer Velibor Božović, will join a roster of more than 222 authors from India and abroad at the 2016 ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival, which runs ... Read More »
December 15, 2015 | Filed under: Events
Steven Spielberg is adapting Roald Dahl's The BFG for film: watch the teaser. (Flavorwire) BBC is in hot water after claiming Lewis Carroll may have been a "repressed pedophile" in recent documentary. (The Telegraph) Wab ... Read More »
December 15, 2015 | Filed under: Book links
No one title is driving bookstore sales this holiday shopping season, according to independent booksellers across Canada. Diana O'Neill, manager of sales and supplies for bookseller database Book Manager who also works at Kelowna, B.C.'s ... Read More »
December 14, 2015
Oregon's Dark Horse Comics has acquired a new edition of The Secret Loves of Geek Girls, a collection of stories edited and originally published by Winnipeg-based Bedside Press owner Hope Nicholson. The book features pieces ... Read More »
December 14, 2015
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