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Adult literacy series scores surprise bestseller by Gail Vaz-Oxlade

A new series aimed at adults with low literacy skills has scored a surprise bestseller with TV financial guru and author Gail Vaz-Oxlade’s Easy Money. The book of financial advice, which retails for $6.95, is ... Read More »

November 1, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Agency changes: Lobster Press

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Montreal children's publisher Lobster Press has retained Michael Reynolds & Associates for sales representation in B.C., Alberta, the Northwest Territories, and the Yukon, and Lisa Pearce Publishers for sales representation in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Heather ... Read More »

November 1, 2010

CTV embarks on unprecedented Giller promotional blitz

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Though most of this year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize nominees have little recognition value, this fact hasn’t stopped media partner CTV from mounting an unusually ambitious promotional push in the days leading up to the Nov. ... Read More »

November 1, 2010

Dundurn invests in Hamilton history

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Dundurn Press, the inaugural winner of the $10,000 Wilson Prize, is using a portion of its winnings to fund the publication of a new historical work about the city of Hamilton, Ontario. The new award ... Read More »

November 1, 2010

Talonbooks revives award-winning Karen X. Tulchinsky novel

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Talonbooks has re-released Vancouver author Karen X. Tulchinsky’s novel The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky, originally published by Raincoast Books in 2003. Tulchinsky was one of several authors affected when Raincoast abandoned its publishing program ... Read More »

October 28, 2010

Parsing the CBC Canada Reads longlist

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The format of the next Canada Reads competition – in which nominees are to be determined by online vote and limited to novels published in the past decade – seems to have caught on. Over ... Read More »

October 28, 2010

Deals: Grace O’Connell is the next Knopf New Face of Fiction

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Knopf Random House Canada assistant editor Michelle MacAleese has acquired Canadian rights to Grace O’Connell’s debut novel about a young shopkeeper who experiences blackouts in the wake of her mother’s unexpected death. The book will ... Read More »

October 28, 2010

Alliance of international literary festivals holds inaugural meeting in Toronto

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Directors from five of the world’s leading literary festivals gathered in Toronto this week for the first formal meeting of The Word Alliance (TWA), a new global partnership aimed at sharing resources and promoting author ... Read More »

October 28, 2010

Anna Porter hosts gathering of Canada Council power players

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Last Wednesday, on the evening before the Canada Council for the Arts released its strategic plan for 2011–16, publishing veteran Anna Porter hosted a private gathering at her house for council members and a number ... Read More »

October 25, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Jean-Marc Vallée to adapt Quebec novel On the Proper Use of Stars for film

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Quebec film director Jean-Marc Vallée (C.R.A.Z.Y., The Young Victoria) and Montreal author Dominique Fortier have paired up for a film version of her novel On the Proper Use of Stars. The book, which centres onon-the-proper-use-of-stars-for-film/> ... Read More »

October 25, 2010

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Adult literacy series scores surprise bestseller by Gail Vaz-Oxlade

Agency changes: Lobster Press

CTV embarks on unprecedented Giller promotional blitz

Dundurn invests in Hamilton history

Talonbooks revives award-winning Karen X. Tulchinsky novel

Parsing the CBC Canada Reads longlist

Deals: Grace O’Connell is the next Knopf New Face of Fiction

Alliance of international literary festivals holds inaugural meeting in Toronto

Anna Porter hosts gathering of Canada Council power players

Jean-Marc Vallée to adapt Quebec novel On the Proper Use of Stars for film

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