Funny how a word can fall into disuse, spend centuries stored in the attic of language, and suddenly come back as a new and stylish item that everybody wants to show off. Often these words ... Read More »
November 3, 2003
Boom, Bust and Echo, by David K. Foot and Daniel Stoffman, sits atop Q&Q’s Bestseller Survey this month, as it has every month since it debuted on the list a year ago. Explaining the success of ... Read More »
November 3, 2003 | Filed under: Industry news
Dream dealersTo the editor:Re: “The allure of print” (May 1997):With the demise of some government concessions and subsidies, publishers are increasingly hard-pressed to show a profit. Out of necessity, their selections of what to publish ... Read More »
November 3, 2003
What the act says:Libraries: The Act to Amend the Copyright Act defines a library as a “non-profit” institution. No exceptions exist for special libraries in corporations. Other than for the purposes of fair dealing, which ... Read More »
November 3, 2003
Party Favours, a political tell-all to be published this fall by HarperCollins, promises to reveal who’s doing what to whom in the back rooms of our nation’s capital. The author’s identity, however, is a closely ... Read More »
November 3, 2003
• Robert de Niro, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ethan Hawke, and Anne Bancroft star in a 1990s update of the Charles Dickens classic Great Expectations, due this August. In Conspiracy Theories – coming in July – Julia ... Read More »
November 3, 2003 | Filed under: Book links
DOUGLAS AND THE TRAMP: Having spent the last few years time-travelling through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, the prolific Douglas Fetherling now plans to work his way around the world – in a tramp freighter. ... Read More »
November 3, 2003
MONEY MATTERS• Canadian freelance writers haven’t had a pay increase in 18 years, according to a recent survey conducted by the Periodical Writers Association of Canada (PWAC). Poll findings indicate the average PWAC member earns ... Read More »
November 3, 2003
I have seen the enemy. It is the second novel. My first was an easy birth. I had never written a full-length manuscript before, so it was as much an adventure as it was a ... Read More »
November 3, 2003
Ottawa residents have a treat in store this summer in the National Library of Canada’s newest exhibition, The Art of Illustration. The free show, which runs until December 7, features the work of 29 of ... Read More »
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