by Becky Robertson

Daily Deals: Two new poetry titles and a novel for BookThug

BookThug publisher Jay MillAr has acquired a second collection by Ottawa poet Christine McNair. Charms will appear in spring 2017. The deal was arranged without an agent. BookThug fiction editor Malcolm Sutton has acquired Blood ... Read More »

July 19, 2016

Book Links: Book trailer for Atwood’s debut graphic novel released; Trump’s ghostwriter on why he won’t support the candidate

By Becky Robertson

Watch the book trailer for Margaret Atwood's debut graphic novel‚ due in September. (GalleyCat) Tony Schwartz‚ the ghostwriter behind Donald Trump's 1987 memoir‚ opens up. (The New Yorker) Writing tips from Jonathan Safran Foer and ... Read More »

July 19, 2016 | Filed under: Book links

Daily Deals: Dundurn Press acquires four new titles due next year, including Ron Sexsmith’s debut novel

By Becky Robertson

Dundurn Press editorial director Carrie Gleason has acquired world rights to Ontario writer Martin Mordecai’s debut adult novel, Free. Due in spring 2017, the historical story is set three years before the abolition of slavery ... Read More »

July 18, 2016

Distribution Change: Georgetown Publications

By Becky Robertson

Effective Aug. 1, Georgetown Publications will no longer serve as the Canadian sales and distribution partner for Stackpole Books. Georgetown ... Read More »

July 18, 2016

Indigo champions CanLit with Read the North campaign

By Becky Robertson

Canada's largest bookselling chain has initiated a campaign encouraging readers to engage with more titles by homegrown authors. Read the North, which Indigo launched on June 29, showcases a summer reading list of 10 noteworthy CanLit ... Read More »

July 18, 2016

Awards: Laurie Petrou wins inaugural Half the World Global Literati Award

By Becky Robertson

Laurie Petrou‚ a professor and graduate director in the writing and digital media program at Toronto's Ryerson University‚ has been named winner of the inaugural Half the World Global Literati Award. The $50‚000 (U.S.) prize‚ ... Read More »

July 18, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

Awards: Stephen Bown wins 2016 William Mills Prize

By Becky Robertson

Stephen R. Bown, the Ottawa-born‚ B.C.-based author, has received this year's William Mills Prize for Non-Fiction Polar Books – a biennial international honour administered by the Polar Libraries Colloquy – for his 2015 biography, White Eskimo: ... Read More »

July 18, 2016 | Filed under: Book news

Book Links: Demand in Minnesota for books on race following police shootings; the library that straddles Canada–U.S. border

By Becky Robertson

Bookstores in Minneapolis and St. Paul see demand for books on race after recent shootings. (Melville House) Quebec–Vermont straddling Haskell Free Library and Opera House is world's only library operating in two countries. (Atlas Obscura) HarperCollins to re-publish 70-year-old J.R.R. Tolkien poem. ... Read More »

July 18, 2016 | Filed under: Book links

Glad Day bookshop launches crowdfunding campaign for new location

By Becky Robertson

Toronto's iconic Glad Day Bookshop – the world's oldest surviving bookseller specializing in LGBTQ titles and the city's oldest bookseller in general – is relocating from its second-floor Yonge and Wellesley streets location in August‚ and has ... Read More »

July 14, 2016

Book Links: First black librarian of Congress named; James Patterson among Forbes highest-paid celebs

By Becky Robertson

Forbes names James Patterson the third highest paid celebrity. (GalleyCat) Carla Hayden appointed U.S.'s first female, first black librarian of Congress. (TeleRead) Google deletes author Dennis Cooper's blog. (Artforum) Sci-fi site Tor.com gives readers a free ebook ... Read More »

July 14, 2016 | Filed under: Book links

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Daily Deals: Two new poetry titles and a novel for BookThug

Book Links: Book trailer for Atwood’s debut graphic novel released; Trump’s ghostwriter on why he won’t support the candidate

Daily Deals: Dundurn Press acquires four new titles due next year, including Ron Sexsmith’s debut novel

Distribution Change: Georgetown Publications

Indigo champions CanLit with Read the North campaign

Awards: Laurie Petrou wins inaugural Half the World Global Literati Award

Awards: Stephen Bown wins 2016 William Mills Prize

Book Links: Demand in Minnesota for books on race following police shootings; the library that straddles Canada–U.S. border

Glad Day bookshop launches crowdfunding campaign for new location

Book Links: First black librarian of Congress named; James Patterson among Forbes highest-paid celebs

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