Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Foreign Front: Jan. 5, 2007

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Jennifer Shepherd at Random House of Canada has sold U.K. and Commonwealth rights to Roméo Dallaire’s follow-up to Shake Hands with the Devil, tentatively titled Child Soldiers, to Hutchinson for simultaneous publication with Random House ... Read More »

January 3, 2007

From magazine to book

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From magazine to bookWhy literary agents are poring over magazines – and what they are looking forScott MacDonaldIn the United States, there are close to 22,000 magazines in current circulation, providing book publishers and literary ... Read More »

December 21, 2006

Frankfurt serendipity

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The Frankfurt Book Fair isn’t what it used to be. E-mail makes it easy to stay in close contact and send manuscripts almost anywhere year-round, so deals made and signed at the fair are now ... Read More »

December 21, 2006

New blood

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Penguin Canada’s new publicity team recently pulled off one of the most buzzed-about book launches in years, but on the day after, in a restaurant not far from the Penguin offices, they were paying a ... Read More »

December 21, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

“A launch from our sponsor”

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This past fall launch season, a trio of writers, who may prove to be trendsetters, appealed to various sponsors for help in launching and promoting their new books. Noah Richler, Charlotte Gray, and Randy Boyagoda ... Read More »

December 21, 2006

Politics by the book

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Two of the top media critics in the U.S. – Jack Shafer, who writes for the online journal Slate, and Howard Kurtz, who writes for The Washington Post and hosts a CNN program – have ... Read More »

December 21, 2006