Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Tom Best lands at H.B. Fenn

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A month after abruptly leaving HarperCollins Canada, Tom Best has joined H.B. Fenn and Company as vice-president of marketing.Best started the job on May 30, taking over for Fenn veteran Heidi Winter, who had left ... Read More »

June 4, 2007

Sellyn wins Gleed prize

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Nathan Sellyn’s Indigenous Beasts has won the $10,000 Danuta Gleed Literary Award, which recognizes a Canadian-authored short-story collection.Sellyn’s debut collection was published in spring 2006 by Raincoast Books, just before the publisher made cutbacks to ... Read More »

June 2, 2007

Richard Bachmann gets Jack

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Veteran indie bookseller Richard Bachmann has won this year’s Jack Award, presented by the Book Promoters Association of Canada in recognition of outstanding promotion of Canadian authors and books.Bachmann is the owner of A Different ... Read More »

May 31, 2007

Harlequin gets real

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Harlequin Enterprises has announced plans to launch a non-fiction program in 2008 – the latest of several recent moves to diversify its product line.The Toronto-based multinational romance publisher’s non-fiction will, not surprisingly, concentrate on service ... Read More »

May 31, 2007

Catching the Callaghan train

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McArthur & Company launched Barry Callaghan's new short-story collection, Between Trains, at the Turf Club in Toronto in late May. (Photos courtesy of Michael Callaghan) McArthur president Kim McArthur introduces her author. Callaghan is both ... Read More »

May 31, 2007 | Filed under: Events