The Coach House Banjoree

Playwright, author, and, yes, banjo player Sean Dixon launched his novel The Girls Who Saw Everything (Coach House Books) at Toronto's Gladstone Hotel on April 26. (Photos courtesy of Coach House Books.) Sean Dixon in ... Read More »

April 30, 2007 | Filed under: Events

McGraw-Hill Ryerson first-quarter results drop

By Q&Q Staff

A drop in schoolbook sales hit McGraw-Hill Ryerson hard in the first quarter of 2007, when the company’s total revenue dropped by more than 20%. But the firm says things are simply back to normal ... Read More »

April 30, 2007

BookExpo builds up its marketing team

By Q&Q Staff

BookExpo Canada has expanded its publicity team, hiring Roger Bilheimer and Adria Iwasutiak to oversee the show’s marketing effort this year. Bilheimer has worked at BookExpo America for the last 10 years; previously he worked ... Read More »

April 30, 2007

Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award 2007 winner & shortlist 2008

By Q&Q Staff

The Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award (MYRCA) is voted on by young people in grades 5 to 8 who have read (or heard read) at least three titles from a preselected list. Voting takes place ... Read More »

April 30, 2007 | Filed under: Book links

Explore Chinese market, Canadian publishers told

By Q&Q Staff

China is open for business – cultural business – and the time is ripe for Canadian publishers to sell their wares to their Chinese counterparts, a delegation from the Chinese publishing world said in Montreal ... Read More »

April 30, 2007

BookNet Canada bestsellers: everything’s gone green

By Q&Q Staff

This week’s list covers the top environmental conservation-themed titles for the two weeks running up to Earth Day 2007, April 22, as tracked by BookNet Canada’s BNC SalesData service. (And in the spirit of re-using, ... Read More »

April 30, 2007

Debut book takes top prize and more in Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards

By Q&Q Staff

The Manitoba Writing and Publishing awards, including a new prize for poetry, were handed out at a gala event on Saturday, April 28, at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Winnipeg author Faith Johnston's debut book, A ... Read More »

April 30, 2007

New Chrétien memoir coming this fall

By Q&Q Staff

Former prime minister Jean Chrétien will publish a new memoir, A Passion for Politics, simultaneously in English and French with Knopf Canada and Les Éditions du Boréal in October of this year.Knopf Canada publisher Louise ... Read More »

April 26, 2007

Two cities kick off new community-reads campaigns

By Q&Q Staff

The sound of turning pages will soon fill Vancouver, B.C., and Waterloo, Ontario; both cities announced the winning selections for their community-reading programs this week.Vancouver residents will be reading My Year of Meats (Penguin), a ... Read More »

April 26, 2007