Quill and Quire

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A partnership with Global TV has helped turn a B.C. broadcaster into a star author for Harbour Publishing. Mike McCardell’s new book for Harbour, Getting to the Bubble, has already sold out its initial print ... Read More »

December 15, 2008

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Every September, Mike Fuhr hits the road to talk to booksellers across the country. Fuhr is the director of national accounts marketing at Random House of Canada, and on his two-week fall tour, he talks ... Read More »

December 12, 2008

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There were moments when the tension and drama inside the courtroom on the hill overlooking Guantanamo Bay were worthy of Hollywood. Nobody snarled that we couldn’t handle the truth, but still, the war crimes trial ... Read More »

December 12, 2008

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I met Lawrence Braithwaite only once, at a now-legendary writing conference in Buffalo in 2001, where many of the so-called “New Narrative” writers – Dennis Cooper, Robert Glück, and Kevin Killian among them – had gathered. ... Read More »

December 12, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

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I am often attacked for expressing neither drooling admiration for, nor fanged loathing of, Canada’s business princes, who have provided fodder for two dozen of my books, a million columns and arti-cles, and countless rants. ... Read More »

December 12, 2008

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What would you do with $5-million? That’s the question Canadian Heritage has posed to publishers in the wake of the announcement, earlier this year, of a new four-year, $5-million program to promote French-English translations. To ... Read More »

December 12, 2008

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When Kate Cassaday began her career at HarperCollins Canada in 2006, it was as an assistant editor to publishers Iris Tupholme and Phyllis Bruce. After being promoted to associate editor, she gradually took responsibility for ... Read More »

December 12, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

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Back in grad school I had a professor who predicted, in all apparent seriousness, that the printed word would be obsolete within a decade. This was in 1993. As ridiculous as that sounded even at ... Read More »

December 12, 2008 | Filed under: Book news