Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Everything’s gone Gould

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Informal co-operation between Doubleday Canada, the CBC, and Sony Music on projects about pianist Glenn Gould has resulted in some unusual cross-promotional opportunities for Doubleday’s forthcoming book on Gould’s life.Glenn Gould: A State of Wonder, ... Read More »

January 12, 2004

Arden’s way

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Last year Insomniac Press scored the biggest hit in its history by collecting a Canadian musician’s online writing. And with a new title this fall from singer-songwriter Jann Arden, the Toronto house is hoping for ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Summer schmooze

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The summer dry spell between publishing seasons was enlivened in late July by two literary events in Toronto. Toronto Life magazine held its annual bash at Bistro 990 to celebrate the publication of its summer ... Read More »

January 9, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

The new M&S

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Nancy Lee is, to borrow a phrase, the new face of fiction at McClelland & Stewart. Last spring, M&S published Dead Girls, a collection of moody, intriguing stories set in a Vancouver shrouded in a ... Read More »

January 9, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

The money-go-round

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I bought Marginal Distribution, a small distributor of unconventional and out-of-the-mainstream books, just before the creation of Chapters in 1995.At the time, Chapters CEO Larry Stevenson, someone with no pressing interest in literature, nevertheless believed ... Read More »

January 9, 2004 | Filed under: Book links

The call of cloth

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Ann Ireland’s new novel Exile, to be published in September, is her first with Dundurn Press – and also represents a departure for the publisher. Since launching a new fiction line in 1999, Dundurn has ... Read More »

January 9, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Fernwood goes west

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After years of informally publishing books in western Canada, Halifax-based Fernwood Publishing has finally made it official. In June the company opened a second office in Winnipeg, in recognition of the fact that it’s been ... Read More »

January 9, 2004 | Filed under: Authors, Book links