by Leigh Anne Williams

Just say no to publicly funded marketing: Bachmann

Prominent indie bookseller Richard Bachmann has spoken out about the More Canada initiative, in which several Canadian publishers are seeking funding to subsidize display placement for their titles in Indigo and indie bookstores. In a ... Read More »

January 18, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Bookselling, Opinion

The end of ReganBooks

By Leigh Anne Williams

The big news south of the border is that with Judith Regan gone, HarperCollins is sweeping out the corners – cancelling that controversial Mickey Mantle bio, shutting down the L.A. ReganBooks office, and renaming the ... Read More »

January 18, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

The literary journal co-founder who came in from the cold

By Leigh Anne Williams

The New York Times reports on a new documentary about Harold L. Humes, a novelist who co-founded The Paris Review and who wrote two admired novels in the 1950s before he "succumbed to a mental ... Read More »

January 18, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Take a look at us now

By Leigh Anne Williams

Welcome to the new-look Quillblog. Don’t let the sleek makeover fool you: you’ll still find the same kind of daily posts here that you’ve come to know and love. But now you’ll also find some ... Read More »

January 15, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Book-Writing Idol II: Electric Boogaloo

By Leigh Anne Williams

Remember that Lit Idol contest in the U.K. back in 2004? Unpublished novelists submitted their work for a chance to win representation from a British power agent, and a Canadian, Paul Cavanagh, beat out everyone. ... Read More »

January 11, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

More Penney: The interview from hell

By Leigh Anne Williams

Edinburgh author Stef Penney, who won the Costa First Novel Award this week for her Canada-set historical tome The Tenderness of Wolves (published here by Penguin Canada), is interviewed on Scotsman.com, and it doesn’t go ... Read More »

January 11, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Mean people suck

By Leigh Anne Williams

Newsflash: sometimes bloggers say mean things. Seems Canadian author Hal Niedzviecki has been Googling himself and finding some unflattering comments floating around the blogosphere, and he’s worked out how he feels about this in a ... Read More »

January 4, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Defending Regan

By Leigh Anne Williams

In the wake of Judith Regan’s firing from HarperCollins last month, another Regan supporter has emerged in reporter and author Steve Ketterman, writing in SF Gate. Ketterman was the ghostwriter of one Regan title, Jose ... Read More »

January 4, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Power in a union

By Leigh Anne Williams

Jason Sullivan, who works at the Robson Street Chapters store in Vancouver, isn’t your typical chain employee: he helped organize a union at the store in 2005, bringing the employees into the service sector local ... Read More »

January 3, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Munro: going, going….

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Alice Munro retirement dance continues. The Toronto Star’s Judy Stoffman keeps the story alive with a new piece reminding readers that Munro said back in October that she’s completed four more stories yet to ... Read More »

January 3, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

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Just say no to publicly funded marketing: Bachmann

The end of ReganBooks

The literary journal co-founder who came in from the cold

Take a look at us now

Book-Writing Idol II: Electric Boogaloo

More Penney: The interview from hell

Mean people suck

Defending Regan

Power in a union

Munro: going, going….

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