Ottawa’s oldest independent bookstore, Leishman Books, is set to close at the end of the month. Owners Sally Hawks and Diane Walker filed for bankruptcy on Monday, due to a pile of unpaid bills, an ... Read More »
September 15, 2010
After publishing with Doubleday Canada for more than a decade, author Lynn Coady has moved to House of Anansi Press for her upcoming book, Everything You Touch. Though Coady says she had no complaint with ... Read More »
September 13, 2010
In the wake of Q&Q's article last week on Toronto author Zhang Ling, whose Chinese-language novel Aftershock is currently the best-selling book in mainland China due to an enormous blockbuster film based upon it, it ... Read More »
September 13, 2010
The Writers’ Trust of Canada has retained freelance publicist Becky Toyne to promote the 10th annual Writers’ Trust Awards. Toyne, the former communications coordinator for the International Festival of Authors, will promote the nominees as ... Read More »
September 13, 2010
Canadian literary magazines have been bracing for cuts ever since details of the new Canada Periodical Fund emerged last year, barring publications with annual circulations of less than 5,000 copies from most federal grants. Following ... Read More »
September 13, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
This week’s bestsellers list, which focuses exclusively on books released in 2010, features the top-20 Canadian non-fiction titles for the two weeks ending Sept. 5. The Book of Awesome continues to lead the pack, R.B. ... Read More »
September 13, 2010
In an effort to fill the void created by the recent departure of managing editor Christina Pallassio, Coach House Books has hired poet Leigh Nash in the newly created, part-time role of publishing assistant. She ... Read More »
September 13, 2010
This week’s bestsellers list, which focuses exclusively on books released in 2010, looks at the top Canadian hardcover fiction for the two weeks ending Aug. 29. Among the many debuts this week are Camilla Gibb’s ... Read More »
September 9, 2010
In December, Raincoast Books will begin moving its head office and warehouse from Vancouver to a larger location in Richmond, B.C. The new address will be 2440 Viking Way. According to Raincoast vice-president of marketing ... Read More »
September 9, 2010
Last May, Toronto’s Glad Day Bookshop, one of the country’s few remaining gay and lesbian bookstores, was staring down the barrel of a gun: sales were down, and a note on the Glad Day website ... Read More »
September 9, 2010
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