Vincent Lam’s Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (Anchor Canada) was the star of the Christmas season, according to a Q&Q Omni survey of independent booksellers across the country. But apart from Lam’s stellar ... Read More »

Penguin Canada has formed a new promotional partnership with Metro Canada that will see excerpts of Penguin books published in the Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver editions of the Metro free commuter newspaper. The campaign, tagged ... Read More »

(Transatlantic Literary Agency president Don Sedgwick, who is currently writing a report on new technology in book publishing for the federal government, attended a conference on publishing and the Internet in NYC last week and ... Read More »

Below are the 40 top-selling Canadian titles over the holiday and Boxing Week season (the four weeks ending Dec. 31, 2006), as tracked by BookNet Canada’s BNC SalesData service. Vincent Lam’s Bloodletting, the top Canadian ... Read More »

Raincoast Books has hired Tonya Martin as its children’s books editor to acquire and edit young adult fiction, juvenile fiction and non-fiction, and children's picture books.Jamie Broadhurst, Raincoast’s vice-president of marketing, said associate publisher Jesse ... Read More »

A new fundraiser for the Saskatchewan Book Awards is bringing that province’s writers into the homes of readers. In an idea based on the literary salons of the 19th century, winners of the organization’s book ... Read More »

When the Belleville, Ontario, booksellers Bill and Ruth Greenley announced last year that they would be retiring in early 2007, the first question on their customers' minds was: what would happen to their store? W. ... Read More »

A Canadian has won the 3-Day Novel Contest for the first time since 2002, which could bode well for both the author and the book’s Vancouver-based publisher and distributor.Brendan McLeod, a spoken word artist from ... Read More »