"I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Lately it seems that no book of Canadian poetry can be put to bed without an epigraph to tuck it in, whether by ... Read More »
June 25, 2008
Last fall, Jim Polk won the Organization of Book Publishers of Ontario’s Janice E. Handford Small Press Award, honouring an individual’s contribution to Canadian literary publishing. Over 15-plus years with the Ontario government (he left ... Read More »
June 25, 2008
Just a few years ago, Samantha Haywood was almost totally oblivious to the world of graphic novels. As an agent with the Transatlantic Literary Agency, she was aware of the form, of course, but she ... Read More »
June 25, 2008
Sally Harding of The Cooke Agency has landed a two-book deal for author A. Lee Martinez with Orbit USA. The first of the two books will be Monster, which is reportedly about “Monster and Judy, ... Read More »
June 25, 2008
A little while ago, there was an article in the Calgary Herald about how Canadian crime writing is really coming into its own internationally. A website linked to the story, and in the comments section ... Read More »
June 25, 2008
The Q&Q Salary Survey, one of our most popular recurring features, is back in this issue for the first time since 2005. Staff writer Scott MacDonald breaks down some of this year’s trends in his ... Read More »
June 25, 2008
This past April in Vancouver, young publishing employees from various firms gathered to discuss their careers. The informal meeting was put together by Selina Rajani, a publicity veteran currently with Self-Counsel Press, and Laraine J. ... Read More »
June 25, 2008
To download this article as a PDF, complete with the associated charts, click here. (Requires a Q&Q Omni membership) You are a publishing industry professional, and when you get up in the morning and look ... Read More »
June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
“You obviously don’t have a clue about the publishing industry!” hissed the e-mail from a medium-sized publisher. We were in the middle of contract negotiations for my memoir, I Am Hutterite, and I was questioning ... Read More »
June 25, 2008
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