With a strong – albeit, smaller than usual – Canadian presence at this year's Book Expo America, which took place in New York City from May 27–29, publishers north of the border maintain that the ... Read More »
June 17, 2015
The Eden Mills Writers' Festival has announced the roster of authors participating in this year's event. Michael Christie, Marina Endicott, Lawrence Hill, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Andrew Pyper, Nino Ricci, and Kim Thúy are among the more ... Read More »
June 17, 2015 | Filed under: Events
Best-selling U.S.-born, Ontario-based crime author Linwood Barclay has been longlisted for the U.K. Crime Writers' Association's Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award for best thriller for his 2014 novel, No Safe House The CWA awards ten ... Read More »
June 17, 2015 | Filed under: Awards
Westwood Creative Artists has the following foreign deals to report: Macedonian rights to Toronto author David Macfarlane’s 2013 novel, The Figures of Beauty, have been sold to Tri Publishing Centre by the PLIMA Agency in ... Read More »
June 17, 2015
"We are potentially entering a new era – what has been called the Era of Universal Authorship ... If everyone is a writer, then what makes any particular writer special?": The cynicism surrounding the book writing dream. ... Read More »
June 17, 2015 | Filed under: Book links
Newfoundland's Flanker Press has signed a six-book deal with USA Today best-selling author and St. John's native Victoria Barbour. The press will publish Barbour's ebooks Against Her Rules, Hard as Ice, Play Me, 21st Century ... Read More »
June 16, 2015
Veronica Simmonds has been named the new marketing and publicity coordinator at Coach House Books. Simmonds served in marketing and ... Read More »
June 16, 2015
Dundurn Press vice-president Beth Bruder has sold rights to Vancouver author Manda Aufochs Gillespie’s Green Mama: Giving Your Child a Healthy Start and a Greener Future in three international territories in deals arranged by Gillespie's ... Read More »
June 16, 2015
New Kindle Unlimited royalties rule means authors only get paid for pages read Happy Bloomsday! How cities all over the world are celebrating James Joyce's Ulysses Vancouver tops Amazon.ca's Canadian Cities that Love to Read ... Read More »
June 16, 2015 | Filed under: Book links
Doubleday Canada editor-in-chief Martha Kanya-Forstner has acquired world rights to the debut title by Torontoist and Newstalk 1010 journalist and activist Desmond Cole, whose praised Toronto Life cover article about his personal experiences with racial profiling ... Read More »
June 15, 2015
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