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John Wiley & Sons senior editor Don Loney has acquired world English rights to a prose non-fiction work by The Other Coast cartoonist Adrian Raeside, entitled Return to Antarctica: A Personal Journey Back to the ... Read More »

May 24, 2007

International Buy-Ins: May 24, 2007

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Scholastic Canada director of publishing Diane Kerner has acquired rights to the Go Girl! series – which celebrates the true-life stories of girls – from Australian publisher Hardie Grant Egmont, as well as the Zac ... Read More »

May 24, 2007 | Filed under: Awards

Foreign Front: May 24, 2007

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Deborah Wood of Westwood Creative Artists has optioned film and television rights to Denise Chong’s The Concubine's Children to J.A. Media of Beijing and Hong Kong for a film to be directed by Ann Hui. ... Read More »

May 24, 2007

Random House of Canada makes books searchable online

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Random House of Canada has launched a new online searching and browsing service for more than 6,000 of its titles. Called Insight, the tool makes the whole of each book’s content searchable through the Internet ... Read More »

May 24, 2007

HarperCollins Canada launches Richard Flanagan's The Unknown Terrorist

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On Tuesday, May 15, HarperCollins Canada launched Richard Flanagan's The Unknown Terrorist. (Photos courtesy of HarperCollins Canada) Flanagan is interviewed by Russell Smith, who is either deep in thought or getting very sleepy. A pole ... Read More »

May 23, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Launch for Chantel Simmons' Stuck in Downward Dog

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Key Porter Books launched Chantel Simmons' novel Stuck in Downward Dog with martinis and cupcakes at Kultura in Toronto. (Photos courtesy of Meisner Publicity) Author Chantel Simmons (in a frothy confection) launches her novel with ... Read More »

May 23, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Kids take over Toronto's Harbourfront

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For the first time, the Forest of Reading. (Photos courtesy of International Readings at Harbourfront) Sean Cassidy leads an illustration workshop. They came in buses and buses and buses. The kids try out reading in ... Read More »

May 23, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Stevie Cameron to publish a book on Pickton in June

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Robert Pickton’s trial for the murder of six women from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is still ongoing, but author and journalist Stevie Cameron’s new book about the case will be published by Knopf Canada on June ... Read More »

May 22, 2007

Edna Staebler writer-in-residence program established at Wilfred Laurier

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Kitchener-born author Edna Staebler was generous to writers and students in the Kitchener-Waterloo area before her death at 100 last September, and she made sure her spirit of giving would endure after her passing. Wilfrid ... Read More »

May 22, 2007

BookNet bestsellers: the Mother’s Day effect

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In honour of Mother’s Day on May 13, here are the top 20 sellers in the “family and relationships” category over the first two weeks of May, as tracked by BookNet Canada’s BNC SalesData service.1. ... Read More »

May 22, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

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Icebreaker

International Buy-Ins: May 24, 2007

Foreign Front: May 24, 2007

Random House of Canada makes books searchable online

HarperCollins Canada launches Richard Flanagan's The Unknown Terrorist

Launch for Chantel Simmons' Stuck in Downward Dog

Kids take over Toronto's Harbourfront

Stevie Cameron to publish a book on Pickton in June

Edna Staebler writer-in-residence program established at Wilfred Laurier

BookNet bestsellers: the Mother’s Day effect

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