Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Snapshot: Tory McNally

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Tory McNally, a second-generation bookseller, started handselling and serving cookies in her parents’ Winnipeg store, McNally Robinson Booksellers, at the age of 12. Apart from a hiatus to attend university at Queen’s and Dalhousie, she’s ... Read More »

August 11, 2008

Snapshot: Stephen Quick

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“Except for a rather gruesome two-year stint as manager of an auto-parts warehouse around 1985 I have been in the book industry in one way or another since 1978,” says Stephen Quick, who’s currently a ... Read More »

August 11, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Snapshot: Sandra Hargreaves

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Sandra Hargreaves worked at Penguin Canada from 1976 to 1991, beginning as the Alberta sales rep and working her way through positions as sales manager, sales director, vice-president of sales and marketing, and president. Now ... Read More »

August 11, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Snapshot: Robert Kasher

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“I guess the better question would be where haven’t I worked,” says Robert Kasher when asked to recap his CV. Currently the director of sales and marketing at Literary Press Group, Kasher started in the ... Read More »

August 11, 2008

Snapshot: Richard King

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Richard King has been busy this year promoting his first novel, That Sleep of Death (Dundurn Press), a mystery about a Montreal independent bookstore owner who becomes embroiled in a murder investigation. The novel comes ... Read More »

August 11, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Snapshot: Phyllis Bruce

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After teaching high school for three years, Phyllis Bruce worked as an educational and college editor at Nelson Canada and Copp Clark. She then worked at Van Nostrand Reinhold in both educational and trade, and ... Read More »

August 11, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Snapshot: Nick Smith

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This spring Nick Smith, sales vice-president at Canadian Manda Group, signed a deal to take on ownership of the sales agency over the next three years, along with Carey Low, Manda’s national sales manager. For ... Read More »

August 11, 2008

Snapshot: Nancy Flight

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Nancy Flight was recently named associate publisher at Greystone Books. Flight’s book career began in San Francisco, where she worked for several firms – San Francisco Book Company, Benjamin Cummings/Addison Wesley, and W. H. Freeman ... Read More »

August 11, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news