Ronsdale Press publisher’s assistant Erinna Gilkison is leaving the company in September to return to ... Read More »
August 10, 2011
Karen Cossar, a former rising star in the Canadian publishing industry, has died. Cossar was found in her home in Toronto’s Summerhill neighbourhood on July 27. She was 46. Barbara Triskan, Cossar’s sister, says publishing ... Read More »
August 9, 2011
On Aug. 11, Toronto’s Design Exchange is hosting a discussion entitled Book: Burning Questions, coinciding with its exhibition, Out of Sorts: Print Culture & Book Design. Panelists Gilbert Li (founder and creative director, The Office ... Read More »
August 8, 2011
After 35 years in business, one of Canada’s few remaining independently owned magazines, Harrowsmith Country Life, has shut down. All of the magazine’s six staffers, including editor-in-chief Tom Cruickshank and two sales representatives, received termination ... Read More »
August 8, 2011
Lisa Nave is stepping down as rights director at House of Anansi Press and Groundwood Books to attend the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto this fall. Nave’s last day ... Read More »
August 4, 2011
Newfoundland’s Winterset in Summer Literary Festival turns 10 this year. To celebrate, the Winterset committee has commissioned an original stage adaptation of Newfoundland writer Lisa Moore’s novel February (House of Anansi Press), scripted by the ... Read More »
August 3, 2011
Foreign front: Arsenal Pulp Press has sold the French-language rights to Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of ... Read More »
August 3, 2011
This week’s bestsellers list covers the top 20 children’s titles for the two weeks ending July 24, 2011. Werewolves in love trump dorky pop stars as the final instalment of Maggie Stiefvater’s best-selling Wolves of ... Read More »
August 2, 2011
The Canadian literary agency Anne McDermid and Associates has launched dropCapLiterary, a new consultancy service to assist authors in digital publishing, marketing, and promotion. Fronted by agent Chris Bucci and social media maven Amber Mac, ... Read More »
July 28, 2011
Summer festivals used to be considered an environmental nightmare: garbage cans overflowing with plastic water bottles and discarded programs, take-out food in Styrofoam containers. But in recent years, several Canadian literary festivals have adopted policies ... Read More »
July 28, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
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