Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

In the Works

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MAGIC JOHNSTON: If you haven’t yet heard of Wayne Johnston, you will. The Newfoundland born-and-bred author, whose most recent books include Human Amusements and The Divine Ryans, recently signed an eye-popping deal with Gerry Howard ... Read More »

October 29, 2003

Tie-ins

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• General has tie-ins to Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, about a squad of Second World War soldiers who jeopardize their lives to save a paratrooper. Slated for July release, the film stars Tom Hanks ... Read More »

October 29, 2003

Fax

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• The American Booksellers Association will no longer be publishing the American Bookseller, saying that the monthly magazine was not the most time-effective way to deliver its news. Instead ABA will beef up its weekly ... Read More »

October 29, 2003 | Filed under: Book news

On getting a blurb

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We’ve all seen them: jacket blurbs that make us ask how did that (relatively) unknown author get that literary star to say that highly complimentary thing about their book? It seems you can follow the ... Read More »

October 29, 2003

Letters

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Surviving CommonwealthOn the whole, Charles Mandel’s article “Commonwealth disappears from view” (May 1998) was on target. However, a couple of statements should be clarified.My agency placed 15 titles with Commonwealth in 1995 prior to the ... Read More »

October 29, 2003

Tie-ins

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• In September, Wesley Snipes stars in Blade, based on the Marvel Comics cartoon of the same name. Also due that month is A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries, starring Kris Kristofferson. The film is based ... Read More »

October 29, 2003

Pseudonyms for $200, Jim

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When Chapters set out to develop a team of “master booksellers” to staff its growing roster of superstores, it didn’t take the term “master” lightly. To qualify, staff must demonstrate superior knowledge of books and ... Read More »

October 29, 2003

Liberated ladies or fettered females?

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In the January/February 1998 issue of The Horn Book, an influential American reviewing journal, Anne Scott MacLeod took a number of well-respected American authors to task for giving the female protagonists of their historical fiction ... Read More »

October 29, 2003

An open-and-shut case

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Here’s a boring little word: case. Meaning, of course, a little box. Or a big box. That sense comes from the Latin capsa, a receptacle; the other meaning – a situation or example – is ... Read More »

October 29, 2003