Ben Guyatt – the creator, producer, and host of the long-running Comedy Network television show Comedy at Club 54 – has attempted, throughout most of his life, to be funny. But when he met with ... Read More »
September 4, 2009
What does it say about the state of book publicity in this country that the chief professional association dedicated to it – the Book Promoters Association of Canada – can collapse with barely anyone noticing? ... Read More »
September 4, 2009
Bud Ings, author of the memoir Mud, Sweat and Tears, was the only professional veterinarian in PEI’s rural Kings County throughout the 1950s. His book, which recounts his days helping to deliver calves and giving ... Read More »
September 4, 2009
Here’s a little thought experiment. Imagine streets lined with dilapidated, decaying Victorian houses. The gutters are filled with shards of brown glass, shattered remnants of untold beer bottles. Burst sofas grace sagging porches. Tattered nylon ... Read More »
September 4, 2009
It’s tricky running any sort of retail operation in Canada’s North, but running a bookstore would seem to require an extra level of hubris. Not only do you have to deal with the everyday problems ... Read More »
September 4, 2009
Freehand Books, the Calgary-based indie press that surprised everybody last year by landing a Scotiabank Giller Prize nomination for Marina Endicott’s Good to a Fault, is in the midst of big changes. Editor and sole ... Read More »
September 4, 2009
When a hipster-skewing indie publisher like Coach House Books decides to experiment with young adult material for the first time, you know they’re not going to do the same old stuff. Still, wasn’t anybody there ... Read More »
September 4, 2009
If you work in the publishing industry, you probably already know something about book deals and how they’re negotiated. But how much do you really know? Do you know what kind of minimum bid to ... Read More »
September 4, 2009
Toronto native Barbara Bower came to the business from Centennial College’s Book and Magazine Publishing program. She joined the HarperCollins Canada publicity department in 2005 and moved to Penguin Canada, where she’s a senior publicist, ... Read More »
September 4, 2009
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