Just over a year after being named books editor at The Globe and Mail, Jared Bland has been tasked with a new job at the newspaper. Bland will remain the paper’s books editor and, starting ... Read More »
March 5, 2014
The Writers’ Union of Canada announced Monday that it will expand membership criteria to accommodate self-published authors. In a referendum held online over the past three weeks, 79 per cent of TWUC members voted in ... Read More »
March 3, 2014
Cybèle Young is making the leap from children’s book author to public artist, thanks to a partnership with Kids Can Press and digital advertising company Pattison Onestop. Last summer, Young submitted her portfolio to an ... Read More »
February 27, 2014
This week, Westwood Creative Artists announced the promotion of two long-time agents: Jackie Kaiser and Hilary McMahon. Kaiser has been appointed president and chief operating officer, and McMahon’s new title is executive vice-president. Founder Bruce ... Read More »
February 27, 2014
Effective immediately, Penguin Canada will outsource foreign rights sales to The Cooke Agency International. The agency will represent Penguin Canada titles in the U.S., the U.K., Australia/New Zealand, all foreign-language markets, and the French-Canadian market. ... Read More »
February 26, 2014
Orca Book Publishers editorial director Sarah Harvey and publisher Andrew Wooldridge have acquired world rights to Karen Krossing’s YA novel Punch Like a Girl, about one girl’s attempt to overcome bullying and sexual abuse. Agent ... Read More »
February 26, 2014
Figure 1 Publishing founding partner and creative director Peter Cocking will be leaving the company to start a design firm. Cocking will continue to work as a book designer and teach at the Emily Carr University of Art ... Read More »
February 24, 2014
In late January, the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC) applied to participate in a lawsuit launched by Access Copyright against York University that will serve as a legal test of fair-dealing guidelines adopted ... Read More »
February 20, 2014
Dundurn Press publisher and president Kirk Howard has acquired world rights to a full-colour biography of painter David Milne by James King, the biographer of Margaret Laurence, Farley Mowat, Lawren Harris, and others. Inner Places: ... Read More »
February 19, 2014
Former bookseller and Canadian publishing activist Judith Mappin died on Feb. 14 in Montreal at the age of 85. In 1974, Mappin, along with friends Hélène Holden and Joan Blake, opened Montreal’s Double Hook Book ... Read More »
February 18, 2014
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