by Julie Baldassi

Personnel change: Toronto Public Library

Anne Bailey has been appointed acting city librarian at the Toronto Public Library effective June 30. TPL’s former city librarian, Jane Pyper, stepped down in March. Currently, Bailey serves as the TPL’s branch libraries director. Recruitment for a ... Read More »

May 27, 2014

The Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador announces 2014 winners

By Julie Baldassi

Lisa Moore has been named winner of the Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador fiction award for her 2013 novel Caught (House of Anansi Press), a nominee for last year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize and Rogers ... Read More »

May 27, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

BEA introduces 18 book industry startups

By Julie Baldassi

BookExpo America has announced the 18 startups that will participate in Startup Alley, a new event where entrepreneurs have the opportunity to present their ideas to the industry and win prize money. Participants exhibiting in ... Read More »

May 27, 2014 | Filed under: Book news, Digital publishing and technology

Goosebumps comes to iTunes, Macmillan launches consumer data analysis tool, and more

By Julie Baldassi

Dany Laferrière and Madeleine Thien nominated for German International Literature Award Goosebumps television show debuts on iTunes Canada National Post chronicles stories from this week’s Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Macmillan unveils data-driven marketing tool ... Read More »

May 27, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

David Stouck wins second annual Basil Stuart-Stubbs award

By Julie Baldassi

Vancouver author David Stouck is the winner of the second annual Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia for his acclaimed biography of Arthur Erickson, a renowned architect and urban planner. Stouck ... Read More »

May 26, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

BookExpo America: What publishers and agents are bringing to New York

By Julie Baldassi

Later this week, publishing professionals from around the globe will gather in Manhattan for the annual BookExpo America. While many agents opt to visit New York editors at other times of the year, Canadian publishers ... Read More »

May 26, 2014

Atlantic Book Award winners announced

By Julie Baldassi

This year’s Atlantic Book Awards put the spotlight on Prince Edward Island, with Acorn Press taking two prizes for Ni’n na L’nu: The Mi’kmaq of Prince Edward Island by Jesse Francis and A.J.B. Johnston, and ... Read More »

May 22, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Deal: Halifax YA author Rebecca Phillips signs a two-book deal

By Julie Baldassi

Foreign front: Kensington Books has acquired world rights to two books by Halifax author and Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award finalist Rebecca Phillips. Faking Perfect, an “issue-driven teen romance” about a girl with a bad-boy high school love ... Read More »

May 21, 2014

Friends of Carmen Aguirre host fundraiser to help recoup outstanding royalties

By Julie Baldassi

Two years after Carmen Aguirre’s Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter won the 2012 CBC Canada Reads competition and became a national bestseller, a fundraiser is being held in hopes of raising the equivalent of $60,000 ... Read More »

May 20, 2014 | Filed under: Book news

Woozles co-founder and co-owner Brian Crocker dies at 72

By Julie Baldassi

Woozles bookstore in Halifax is mourning the loss of Brian Crocker, who co-founded the store with Ann Connor Brimer and his wife, Liz Crocker, in 1978. Crocker, who passed away this weekend at the age of ... Read More »

May 20, 2014 | Filed under: Bookselling

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Personnel change: Toronto Public Library

The Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador announces 2014 winners

BEA introduces 18 book industry startups

Goosebumps comes to iTunes, Macmillan launches consumer data analysis tool, and more

David Stouck wins second annual Basil Stuart-Stubbs award

BookExpo America: What publishers and agents are bringing to New York

Atlantic Book Award winners announced

Deal: Halifax YA author Rebecca Phillips signs a two-book deal

Friends of Carmen Aguirre host fundraiser to help recoup outstanding royalties

Woozles co-founder and co-owner Brian Crocker dies at 72

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