For the second year in a row, Ontario book publishers will meet with film and TV producers for a round of speed-pitching, in an effort to generate film options. This year’s “From Page to Screen” ... Read More »
March 2, 2009
In terms of sheer volume, the North Shore Series of Canadian Literature would be a robust program for any small publisher. An initiative of the Brighton, Ontario-based Hidden Brook Press, the series is devoted to ... Read More »
March 2, 2009
In a postscript to the fall of the publishing house Trait d’Union four years ago, former publisher Pierre Turgeon pleaded guilty to fraud in Quebec court last week. He’s been ordered to pay a $5,000 ... Read More »
March 2, 2009
Canadian comics fans might well be wondering what politician Bob Rae and Maclean’s news editor Andrew Coyne are doing on the jury for this year’s Doug Wright Awards, the annual prize handed out to the ... Read More »
February 26, 2009
The English-language winners of the CBC Literary Awards have been announced. The awards honour unpublished literary work, and the winning entries will be read on CBC Radio’s Between the Covers during the week of March ... Read More »
February 26, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
On Feb. 28, HarperCollins Canada will publish Dennis Richard Murphy’s debut novel, Darkness at the Stroke of Noon, but tragically, Murphy won’t be present for the launch: the author died last June of lung cancer ... Read More »
February 26, 2009
Russell Wangersky has some busy days ahead of him. Though the Burning Down the House author already has a full-time job as an editor at the St. John’s Telegram, he’s now taken on the added ... Read More »
February 26, 2009
Things are looking up for one of Halifax’s oldest independent bookstores. As reported in Q&Q Omni earlier this month, Frog Hollow Books owner Heidi Hallett has been struggling to keep the store alive in the ... Read More »
February 26, 2009
Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism has been named the winner of the inaugural Warwick Prize for Writing, a British award that is set to be handed out every other year ... Read More »
February 25, 2009
Enfield & Wizenty, an imprint of Great Plains Publications, has acquired two fiction titles for fall 2009. The firm will publish Toronto writer Lisa Pasold’s debut novel Rats of Las Vegas, about a young female ... Read More »
February 24, 2009
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