Publishers across the country have begun receiving word from the Department of Canadian Heritage about funding allotments from the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) Aid to Publishers Program for 2009-10. The full list of ... Read More »

You could be excused for thinking that Michael Winter’s The Architects Are Here had been longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for the second year running. An article published Monday on the Guardian ... Read More »

After announcing her retirement a year ago, Susan Dayus has decided to continue on in her role as executive director of the Canadian Booksellers Association, at least in a part-time capacity. Beginning Jan. 1, the ... Read More »

Yuppie mom memoirist Rebecca Eckler and “yummy mummy” blogger Erica Ehm have teamed up to write a children’s picture book called The Mischievous Mom at the Art Gallery, to be published in March by Key ... Read More »

Tundra Books is making its first foray into the world of virtual book tours this week with the launch of debut author Trilby Kent’s YA novel Medina Hill. The tour, which began Monday and runs ... Read More »

A tween novel deemed unfit for Scholastic’s U.S. school book fairs – due in part to the fact that it features a pair of lesbian moms – has been reinstated in the wake of an ... Read More »

After less than five years at its current Queen Street West location, the Toronto-based science fiction and fantasy bookstore BAKKA Phoenix Books is preparing to move next spring into the former digs of the recently ... Read More »