After a disappointing end to her first publishing venture – an educational house that folded in 2001 – no one would have begrudged Faye Boer had she chosen to return to the comparative stability of ... Read More »

An American indie publisher is poised to become a surprise champion of CanLit, with books by three Canadian authors slated for release this year.Soft Skull Press in New York City will release John Geiger’s The ... Read More »

For all the nervousness induced last fall by Indigo’s request that publishers send their stock to the chain’s Toronto-area distribution centre, and by the country’s plague- and disaster-ridden economic malaise, publishers are reporting solid holiday ... Read More »

“Equal to last year, almost to the dollar.” Peter Mandelos, director of Paragraphe Books in Montreal, speaks for many independent bookstores in assessing his store’s year-to-year holiday sales trends. After a general slowdown in sales ... Read More »

The federal government must recognize the “urgency facing self-employed writers” in the wake of poor economic conditions, reports The Writers’ Union of Canada in its annual pre-budget submission to the federal government.Sent to the Standing ... Read More »

Canadian Literary Award hopefuls will have until Sept. 30 to submit their unpublished short stories, poems, or non-fiction travel pieces. Co-administrator CBC has asked writing groups to alert their members.Sponsored by the Canada Council for ... Read More »

Canada’s oldest science fiction bookstore is celebrating 30 years in business with a rare in-store reading later this month.Toronto’s Bakka Books will host one Canadian and two American science fiction writers at an event planned ... Read More »

Though it’s owned by Indigo and boasts 72,000 square feet of space, Toronto’s World’s Biggest Bookstore isn’t known for superstore-style ambience. But that may be changing in at least one small way: a recently added ... Read More »

Two Ontario students have won the inaugural CanCopy/Canada Book Day copyright writing contest. 18-year-old Anil Dosaj’s essay “Why Copyright” won first place for the 13-18 age group, while 23-year-old Stephen Fertuck was the winner for ... Read More »

Book illustrators in Atlantic Canada will be drawing more attention next year with two new prizes in their honour announced almost simultaneously.“A picture is worth a thousand words,” notes Halifax mayor Peter Kelly. And thanks ... Read More »