Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Letters

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Modest but heart-felt tributeAs chair of the Information Book Award Committee of the Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada, I feel that it is necessary to point out that we have been granting an award for ... Read More »

October 22, 2003

Commitment cannot be counted

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The past few issues of Quill & Quire have contained letters commenting on Scott Anderson’s column “Who is Canadian?” (Mar., p. 7). I am responding to what was written first by Peter Saunders (April, Letters) ... Read More »

October 22, 2003

Comma clerk killers

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A writer I know says darkly, “Copy editors are the enemy.” Well, I’m here to defend good editing, but there is always the other kind. Because publishers tend to view copy editors as unimportant comma ... Read More »

October 22, 2003

At your nearest e-book store…

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In June Bob Woodward’s new book, Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate 1974-1999, reached brick-and-mortar bookstores and virtual ones at once. Simultaneously issued in hardcover, Rocket eBook, and SoftBook editions, Shadow retails for ... Read More »

October 22, 2003

The new Q&Q

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By now you will have noticed some striking changes in the design of Quill & Quire. From the moment we began planning this makeover several months ago, our guiding philosophy has been to make navigating ... Read More »

October 22, 2003 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news

Letters

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Keeping the field levelYour readers must be wondering what we at McClelland & Stewart did and said to bring down the wrath of some highly articulate booksellers (June Letters).What we did was simultaneously offer a ... Read More »

October 22, 2003

How the list was made

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In compiling this list of notable books, Quill & Quire asked a group of 37 academics, writers, booksellers, and librarians to submit nominations for the 30 “most interesting, important, and influential” books of Canadian fiction ... Read More »

October 22, 2003

DK looks to open office in 2000

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Rumours have been circulating in the trade for months about the impending launch of a Canadian office for Dorling Kindersley, but the company’s Canadian representative says the local division won’t get going until at least ... Read More »

October 20, 2003