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Girly Book Club to host Toronto mayoral candidates Karen Stintz and Olivia Chow

With the Toronto municipal elections coming up in October, two mayoral candidates – positioning themselves as the antithesis to the library-hating, Margaret Atwood-oblivious Brothers Ford – are ingratiating themselves with the bookish set with two ... Read More »

July 10, 2014

Personnel changes: House of Anansi Press

By Julie Baldassi

House of Anansi Press has the following personnel changes to announce: Senior editor Janie Yoon has been promoted to the role of editorial director. Long-time publicity director Laura Repas will be leaving the company effective Aug. 1. At the ... Read More »

July 10, 2014

Deals: Penguin Canada acquires Simon Choa-Johnston novel; ECW publishes another book on weed; and more

By Julie Baldassi

Penguin Canada president and publisher Nicole Winstanley has acquired in a pre-empt Canadian English-language rights to The House of Wives by playwright Simon Choa-Johnston, the story of a 19th-century Jew from Calcutta who sails to Hong Kong to participate ... Read More »

July 9, 2014

Arthur Porter memoir optioned for film and television

By Julie Baldassi

A memoir by alleged fraudster Arthur Porter has been optioned for film and television by a yet-to-be-announced Montreal production company. Porter, who has been detained in a Panamanian prison on Canadian fraud charges since May ... Read More »

July 8, 2014 | Filed under: Book news

Tom Thomson death-tweets being developed into manuscript

By Julie Baldassi

For the fourth year in a row, "Tom Thomson" live-tweeted a re-enactment of the Group of Seven artist’s death in Algonquin Park, thought to have taken place somewhere on Canoe Lake amid mysterious circumstances 97 ... Read More »

July 8, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture

Smashwords releases ebook sales survey, study finds dubious pricing by academic publishers, and more

By Julie Baldassi

Smashwords releases its third annual ebook sales survey Study says U.S. academic publishers "basically charge whatever they feel like" Eliza Robertson, Emily St. John Mandel, and other Canadians make The Million’s most anticipated books list for the second half ... Read More »

July 8, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

Distribution change: Tuttle Publishing and Renegade Arts Entertainment

By Julie Baldassi

Effective immediately, Publishers Group Canada will handle Canadian ... Read More »

July 7, 2014

Snapshot: social media expert Vicki Ziegler

By Julie Baldassi

After 15 years working as a technical writer in the tech and software world, Vicki Ziegler found a way to bring her professional skills in line with her love of literature. In the late 1990s, ... Read More »

July 7, 2014

Wattpad expands Toronto team; focuses on publisher partnerships

By Julie Baldassi

Thanks to a recent $46 million capital investment, Wattpad has moved its headquarters into a new 15,000 square-foot space near Toronto’s St. Lawrence Market. The investment – led by OMERS Ventures, with contributions from Toronto-based ... Read More »

July 3, 2014

Deals: Film rights optioned to The Bear; Groundwood acquires picture book adaptation of Jael Ealey Richardson memoir; and more

By Julie Baldassi

Groundwood Books publisher Sheila Barry has acquired world rights to Jael Ealey Richardson’s picture book The Stone Thrower, with illustrations by Governor General’s Literary Award–winner Matt James. The book, based on Richardson’s memoir of the same ... Read More »

July 2, 2014

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Girly Book Club to host Toronto mayoral candidates Karen Stintz and Olivia Chow

Personnel changes: House of Anansi Press

Deals: Penguin Canada acquires Simon Choa-Johnston novel; ECW publishes another book on weed; and more

Arthur Porter memoir optioned for film and television

Tom Thomson death-tweets being developed into manuscript

Smashwords releases ebook sales survey, study finds dubious pricing by academic publishers, and more

Distribution change: Tuttle Publishing and Renegade Arts Entertainment

Snapshot: social media expert Vicki Ziegler

Wattpad expands Toronto team; focuses on publisher partnerships

Deals: Film rights optioned to The Bear; Groundwood acquires picture book adaptation of Jael Ealey Richardson memoir; and more

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