Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

LongPen back at BEA

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For the second year in a row, Margaret Atwood’s long-distance signing device, the LongPen, will have a booth at BookExpo America. The author herself will not be present this year, but she will be doing ... Read More »

May 31, 2007

Hollywood dreams

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Raincoast Books children’s editor Tonya Martin has acquired the first two titles in a new series of YA novels by Tracy McMillan. The title character of the Saint Hollywood series is a “patron saint” of ... Read More »

May 30, 2007

Four new sales for Lecker

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The Robert Lecker Agency has sold Duncan MacPherson and David Miller’s Breakthrough Business Development: A 90-Day Plan to Build Your Client Base and Take Your Business to the Next Level to editor Karen Milner at ... Read More »

May 30, 2007

The coolest fairy

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Raincoast Books children’s editor Tonya Martin has bought an entire trilogy from author Meredith Badger. The Fairy School Dropout series is billed as an antidote to “happy, pink fairy books” – it’s about a young ... Read More »

May 30, 2007

Foreign Front: May 31, 2007

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International sales for Doug Saunders’ Arrival City: The World’s Last Great Migration are mounting. Jennifer Shepherd at Random House of Canada has sold Australian and New Zealand rights to Allen & Unwin, Norwegian rights to ... Read More »

May 30, 2007

Peter Carver wins Aubry Award

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IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Canada will be awarding the Claude Aubry Award for distinguished service in children’s literature to Peter Carver. Carver is the current editor of children’s and young adult ... Read More »

May 28, 2007 | Filed under: Book news