Vancouver author Timothy Brook has won the U.S.-based Mark Lynton History Prize, worth $10,000 (U.S.), for his tome about the ... Read More »
April 1, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
HarperCollins Canada associate editor Kate Cassaday has acquired financial guru Gail Vaz-Oxlade’s next book. Debt & Disaster: Taking Control of Your Money and Your Life is set for publication in winter 2010. The deal was ... Read More »
April 1, 2009
The five finalists for the 2009 Donner Prize were announced early this morning. The prize, which is handed out annually, is for the best book on Canadian policy. The winner receives $35,000, and the runners-up ... Read More »
March 31, 2009
When the Authors’ Booking Service – an online venture that helps children’s authors land paid speaking gigs at Ontario schools and libraries – was first launched three years ago, it represented only a few dozen ... Read More »
March 30, 2009
With only a few weeks to go before the April 22 launch of the new Toronto location of Prairie bookseller McNally Robinson, store manager Rachna Davidar has assembled her team. Beyond the names Q&Q Omni ... Read More »
March 30, 2009
For years, the Toronto-based literary agency The Rights Factory has been a one-man show. The man in charge, Sam Hiyate, handled every author on the company roster, from the most established to the humblest unknown. ... Read More »
March 30, 2009
What happened to the 21 young up-and-comers we interviewed five years ago for a similar feature? (“35 Below,” Jan., 1994). Some went abroad, some started their own companies, and two – Sam Hiyate and Maya ... Read More »
March 27, 2009
Martha Sharpe, the 30-year-old publisher of House of Anansi Press, is looking for tough, experimental writing that pushes the boundaries of traditional literature. She treats Anansi – a small press acquired by Stoddart Publishing in ... Read More »
March 27, 2009
Bronwyn Addico never expected to be running the family bookstore. “I used to think, ‘Oh well, if backpacking around Southeast Asia doesn’t work, I can go work at the bookstore when I get back and ... Read More »
March 27, 2009
It’s nice to think that people can still break into the book business the old-fashioned way – by picking up the phone book and calling every publisher in town. That’s how Selina Rajani got her ... Read More »
March 27, 2009
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