As Conrad Black no doubt breathes a sigh of relief that he will not spend the months before his sentencing for fraud in a U.S. jail, author George Tombs is busy working on the final ... Read More »
July 19, 2007
Canadian fantasy author Ed Greenwood is facing something of a book logjam: he has three titles coming out in the month of September alone, and three separate houses are publishing them. Swords of Dragonfire, the ... Read More »
July 19, 2007
This week’s list covers the top science fiction titles for the two weeks ending July 15, as tracked by BookNet Canada’s BNC SalesData service.1. Hunters of Dune, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson(Tor/H.B. Fenn, $10.99 ... Read More »
July 19, 2007
Margaret Bryant, sales and marketing manager for the Literary Press Group, will start a new job in mid-August at the Dundurn Group as the sales and marketing director. “The time was right and the job ... Read More »
July 19, 2007
The ReLit Awards, created in 2000 by Newfoundland author Kenneth J. Harvey, recognize Canadian literature from independent presses. The 2007 winners are: Short Fiction:Gargoyles by Bill Gaston (House of Anansi Press)Poetry:Predicting the Next Big Advertising ... Read More »
July 18, 2007
Raincoast Books has bought Prince of Fraud, a non-fiction saga about Leo Koretz, a lawyer in Chicago in the 1920s who set up a large pyramid scheme involving nonexistent Panamanian oil fields, then fled to ... Read More »
July 18, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
In the search for new markets, Penguin Canada is trying out an unconventional retailer – the Shopping Channel. The first Penguin Book Club segment on the cable channel aired late last week, featuring former Governor ... Read More »
July 16, 2007
In a shakeup on the Canadian fiction publishing scene, McClelland & Stewart senior editor Jennifer Lambert is moving to HarperCollins Canada.Lambert will start there on Sept. 4, serving as editorial director – a new position ... Read More »
July 16, 2007
A Quebec author and his publisher have launched a $1.2-million lawsuit alleging that a non-profit educational agency, working hand in hand with several Quebec government agencies, stole big chunks of a science text he wrote ... Read More »
July 16, 2007
This week’s list covers the top philosophy titles for the two weeks ending July 8, as tracked by BookNet Canada’s BNC SalesData service. Our most popular philosopher? Mitch Albom.1. Tuesdays With Morrie, Mitch Albom(Knopf, $9.99 ... Read More »
July 16, 2007
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