Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

An author who makes house calls

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It may not be the most practical promotional idea ever devised, but it’s bound to garner at least a little attention. Earlier this week, Victoria, B.C.-based author David Leach announced through his blog that, for ... Read More »

June 5, 2008

Rights Factory gets new partner

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Toronto literary agent Sam Hiyate has a new partner. Silvia Langford, a British book packager, is now a minority shareholder in Hiyate’s firm, the Rights Factory. “I now have a sympathetic investor and partner with ... Read More »

June 5, 2008

Canadian winners at IPPY Awards

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Canadian writers and publishers were among the winners at the 12th annual Independent Publisher Book Awards, given out at a ceremony May 30 in Los Angeles. The awards honour the best independently published books of ... Read More »

June 5, 2008

Blaser gets the Griffin

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A mere two years after receiving the Griffin Trust’s Lifetime Recognition Award, 83-year-old poet Robin Blaser proved his mettle again by taking home the 2008 Canadian poetry award for his collection The Holy Forest (University ... Read More »

June 5, 2008

Deals: June 5, 2008

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Doubleday Canada senior editor Tim Rostron has acquired world rights to The Erotic Engine, a work of non-fiction by Patchen Barss, which looks at how pornography and erotica have stimulated innovations in communications systems over ... Read More »

June 4, 2008 | Filed under: Book links