Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

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Penguin Canada editorial director Andrea Magyar has acquired Canadian rights to a new non-fiction work by Jay Ingram, host of the Discovery Channel program Daily Planet. The Daily Planet Book of Cool Ideas: Global Warming ... Read More »

February 6, 2008

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Veteran children’s editor Peter Carver is back with Red Deer Press, after briefly leaving his post at the firm last year. That’s one of several recent changes for the house – others include an expanded ... Read More »

February 4, 2008

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Mystery novelist Peter Robinson has won the Toronto Public Library Celebrates Reading Award, which the library bestows at its annual fundraiser, the Book Lover’s Ball. Robinson was presented with the prize at the event on ... Read More »

February 4, 2008

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Altitude Publishing is folding due to insolvency, according to a statement by publisher Stephen Hutchings in an e-mail to the firm’s authors and editors on Wednesday. The Alberta-based publisher has laid off all employees and ... Read More »

January 31, 2008