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Canadian agents taking lots of fiction to Frankfurt

This year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, taking place from Oct. 10 to 14, will be a professional coming-out party of sorts for The Cooke Agency in its newly expanded form. According to Dean Cooke, it will ... Read More »

October 1, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Mark Frutkin wins the Sunburst Award

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Ottawa author Mark Frutkin has won the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic for his novel Fabrizio's Return (Knopf Canada). He is the author of three books of poetry and six fiction titles, ... Read More »

October 1, 2007

Janet Murie leaves HarperCollins Canada

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Janet Murie, sales director of children’s books for HarperCollins Canada, has left the company. Murie, who previously had been a senior sales rep for Scholastic Canada in B.C. for three years, began working for HarperCollins ... Read More »

October 1, 2007

BookExpo Canada plans public events for 2008

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Following last week’s announcement that there would be no 2008 edition of BOOKED!, the readers’ festival created this year to accompany BookExpo Canada, a few ideas about what might replace it have emerged.Scott Temple, managing ... Read More »

October 1, 2007 | Filed under: Book links

Editors’ association to offer full certification

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Editors looking for work will soon be able to acquire a new credential to vouch for their abilities. The Editors’ Association of Canada (EAC) plans to offer full certification for editors as early as 2008. ... Read More »

October 1, 2007

Word power

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Have you ever wanted to cause I grievous bodily harm to the author of a review? It seems that several Montreal theatres, including the venerable Centaur, have, and so has an angry group of restaurateurs ... Read More »

September 28, 2007

Wishing for Martha (and Martin)

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There is one question I ask myself when looking back on 13 years in retail book sales: Why have I not used more co-op advertising?Co-op dollars are one of the best-kept secrets of the publishing ... Read More »

September 28, 2007

Why shun what sells?

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If 80% of all Canadians expressed a serious interest in snowflakes – to pick a subject at random – you can bet your bottom dollar that our bookstores and magazine racks would soon be flooded ... Read More »

September 28, 2007

What will Duthie’s do?

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It was a busy Saturday afternoon and the gentleman I had just sold a book to wanted to know about Chapters.So, he asked, what is Duthie’s going to do when Chapters gets here?The question has ... Read More »

September 28, 2007

Watch for Christmas shoppers

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December is the cruellest month. We train all year for it – committing backlist titles to memory, reading reviews voraciously, matching obscure books with potential readers – in the hope of winning customers, and making ... Read More »

September 28, 2007

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Canadian agents taking lots of fiction to Frankfurt

Mark Frutkin wins the Sunburst Award

Janet Murie leaves HarperCollins Canada

BookExpo Canada plans public events for 2008

Editors’ association to offer full certification

Word power

Wishing for Martha (and Martin)

Why shun what sells?

What will Duthie’s do?

Watch for Christmas shoppers

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