Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Deals: January 10, 2008

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Q&Q contributing editor Shaun Smith has sold a debut novel to Dundurn Press editorial director Michael Carroll. Set in 1971, Snakes & Ladders is a YA novel about a 12-year-old Muskoka girl who tries to ... Read More »

January 9, 2008

Covers of the year 2007

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Though you can’t always judge a book by its cover, you can judge the cover itself. So Q&Q asked a number of the country’s prominent book designers to pick their favourite Canadian covers of the ... Read More »

January 7, 2008

Books of the year 2007

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How does a book make Q&Q’s Books of the Year list? There’s no set mathematical formula behind the 15 selections that follow – 10 adult titles and five children’s, in no particular order – but ... Read More »

January 7, 2008

Surviving Survival

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It’s been 35 years since Margaret Atwood published Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. Her mission was primarily to uncover the patterns that defined CanLit up to that point – ideas of failure, victimization, ... Read More »

January 7, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Altitude hits financial troubles

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Alberta’s Altitude Publishing appears to be facing financial difficulties. Multiple Altitude authors are claiming not to have received any royalty payments for 2007, and only partial payment of 2006 royalties. Altitude has blamed the shortfall ... Read More »

January 7, 2008

In the Red Zone

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As I wrote my memoir, The Orange Trees of Baghdad: In Search of My Lost Family, I found myself on the horns of a dilemma. On the one hand, the book was written from an ... Read More »

January 6, 2008