Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Snapshot: Sandy Cooper

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Before recently joining Raincoast Books, Sandy Cooper spent 15 years as a sales rep at HarperCollins Canada. She began as a children’s specialist, and later began selling the full list. Cooper’s B.C. territory expanded, and ... Read More »

December 21, 2006

Finer Points: Imported Slang

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This past September, Paul Wells was complaining in his Maclean’s blog, Inkless Wells, that CBC Newsworld wasn’t going to cover what would probably be Tony Blair’s last-ever speech to the Labour Party at its conference ... Read More »

December 21, 2006

Foreign Front: Dec. 21, 2006

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Jennifer Shepherd at Random House of Canada Limited sold UK & 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 ... Read More »

December 21, 2006 | Filed under: Book links

The manga revolution

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Manga novels — the black-and-white, comic-style paperbacks featuring brooding ninjas, pigtailed schoolgirls, and cherubic animal warriors — are often seen as the unsophisticated younger sibling of the graphic novel genre. Yet the engaging plotlines, television ... Read More »

December 19, 2006

After Hushion House

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The summer collapse of Hushion House Publishing has cut a hole in the self-publishing book trade. While publisher White Knight Books has formed a new distribution firm and taken on several of Hushion’s former clients ... Read More »

December 19, 2006

The problem with book prices

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With American titles coming down in price, can Canadian books compete? After more than a year of bookseller pleading, publishers have lowered Canadian prices on U.S. hardcovers in order to reflect the strength of the ... Read More »

December 19, 2006

Snapshot: Jack Wayne

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Jack Wayne, the new president of the Association of Canadian Publishers and the owner of Canadian Scholars’ Press, began as a Jack of many trades — an employment counsellor for people recently released from mental ... Read More »

December 19, 2006

In defence of historical fiction

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If there’s one complaint about Canadian publishing that I hear more than any other, it’s that Canada produces altogether too much historical fiction. I fondly recall our former review editor, James Grainger, flipping through galleys ... Read More »

December 19, 2006

Hussey’s Kids Can Legacy

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In 1978, Valerie Hussey was reviewing children’s books for The Globe and Mail and other publications. Originally from New York City, she’d lived in Canada on and off for about four years, and had worked ... Read More »

December 19, 2006