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BookNet bestsellers: Top 20 frontlist comics and graphic novels

This week’s list covers frontlist comics and graphic novels for the two weeks ending March 11. The list captures the top overall titles first published in August 2006 or later, as tracked by BookNet Canada’s ... Read More »

March 16, 2007

ECW gets in on Conrad Black trial action

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With TV stations and newspapers already providing nearly 24-7 coverage of the Conrad Black trial, you might think there’d be little room for a small Canadian publisher to get in on the act. But a ... Read More »

March 15, 2007

HarperCollins Canada to expand podcasts

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HarperCollins Canada is expanding its online marketing efforts with a new series of podcasts for its business and self-help titles, hosted by digital marketing expert Mitch Joel. The first of 13 planned episodes is scheduled ... Read More »

March 15, 2007

New poet laureate has plans for Vancouver

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George McWhirter spent much of his academic career teaching students creative writing; now, as Vancouver’s first poet laureate, he will be teaching the city’s residents the value of poetry. McWhirter has been tasked with promoting ... Read More »

March 15, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

BookNet bestsellers: Top 20 Canadian-published frontlist titles

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This week’s list covers the frontlist titles published by Canadian-owned firms for the two weeks ending March 4. The list captures titles first published in August 2006 or later, as tracked by BookNet Canada’s BNC ... Read More »

March 15, 2007

Li’l witch

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Raincoast Books associate publisher Jesse Finkelstein and children’s editor Tonya Martin have acquired world rights to a new juvenile novel by Rhonda Hayter entitled The Witchy Worries of Abbie Adams, about the misadventures of a ... Read More »

March 14, 2007

More from Clarke

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Thomas Allen publisher Patrick Crean has purchased Canadian rights to the latest novel by Austin Clarke. More is the story of a Bajan housekeeper in Toronto whose husband has abandoned her to work illegally in ... Read More »

March 14, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Meet the parents

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Judy Fong Bates, author of Midnight at the Dragon Café, has sold Canadian rights to a new memoir, entitled The Year of Finding Memory, to Random House Canada editor Craig Pyette. In the memoir, Bates ... Read More »

March 14, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

The price of neglect

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McClelland & Stewart senior editor Jennifer Lambert has acquired a debut collection of linked stories (which also includes a novella) by Hannah Holborn. We Were Scenes of Grief, drawn from the author’s ties to her ... Read More »

March 14, 2007

Remaking Canada

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Douglas & McIntyre president and publisher Scott McIntyre has purchased a debut non-fiction work by Toronto Star columnist Rudyard Griffiths. In Who We Are: A Citizen’s Manifesto, Griffiths “sets out a provocative action plan for ... Read More »

March 14, 2007

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BookNet bestsellers: Top 20 frontlist comics and graphic novels

ECW gets in on Conrad Black trial action

HarperCollins Canada to expand podcasts

New poet laureate has plans for Vancouver

BookNet bestsellers: Top 20 Canadian-published frontlist titles

Li’l witch

More from Clarke

Meet the parents

The price of neglect

Remaking Canada

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