Too often, the book business is a case of many commercial failures offset by a few successes. But Kurt Busch, who has been buying books for retail outlets across Canada since 1999, can recall only ... Read More »
September 12, 2007
It isn’t easy to get 1,000 people to show up on a street corner in Toronto for a promotional event without spending a single dime on traditional advertising. But publishers are discovering that it is ... Read More »
September 12, 2007
In the beginning, my first book was supposed to be a collection of postcard stories about candy. It all started while I was living in Northern Ontario and saw a teenage girl kiss her boyfriend ... Read More »
September 12, 2007
The Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador has announced that the finalists for its $5,000 Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers are:Degan Davis for his novel The Forgetting RoomBruce Johnson for his novel FirmamentCraig Francis ... Read More »
September 11, 2007
Penguin Canada editorial director Diane Turbide has bought rights to a new book focusing on the case of Maher Arar, as well as other examples of national security investigations gone wrong. Kerry Pither’s “The Lucky ... Read More »
September 11, 2007
Two-time Giller winner M.G. Vassanji launched his new novel, The Assassin's Song (Doubleday Canada), within the cramped-yet-stylish confines of Xacutti in Toronto's Little Italy on Sept. 10. Andrew Pyper chats with Doubleday Canada publisher Maya ... Read More »
September 11, 2007 | Filed under: Events
Author Mary Novik celebrated the launch of her first novel, Conceit (Doubleday Canada), at Cafe TrafiQ in West Vancouver on Sept. 8. (Photos courtesy of Keir Novik) Mary Novik reads from Conceit. The assembled crowd ... Read More »
September 11, 2007 | Filed under: Events
Effective immediately, H.B. Fenn and Company is no longer handling distribution of T&N Children’s Publishing, which publishes non-fiction children’s books under the Two-Can Publishing (ISBN prefix 978-1-58728) and Northword Books for Young Readers (978-1-55971) imprints. ... Read More »
September 10, 2007
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