Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Q&Q‘s 2006 year in review

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Relive the book-biz year that was with a look back at the year's major news stories from Q&Q Omni.JANUARYOxford axes two senior trade division staffersJan. 13: In a restructuring move, Oxford University Press Canada has ... Read More »

December 18, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Foreign Front: Dec. 20, 2006

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Agent Carolyn Swayze has sold Polish rights to Mark Frutkin’s Fabrizio’s Return to Proszynski, and Russian rights to Inostranka; Miriam Toews’s A Boy of Good Breeding to Isis in the U.K., to Berlin Verlag in ... Read More »

December 15, 2006

WWII x 2

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Douglas & McIntyre president and publisher Scott McIntyre has just purchased Canadian rights to two new works of non-fiction by Mark Zuehlke. The first, due in 2008, is Normandy, and it is Zuehlke’s seventh book ... Read More »

December 15, 2006

Tiger Tales

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Effective Dec. 31, 2006, Tiger Tales will no longer be distributed in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son. Please direct all orders to Tiger Tales directly. Tiger TalesP.O. Box 411037Kansas City, MO, 64141-1037U.S.A.(T) 1-888-454-0097(F) 1-913-362-7401orders@midpt.com ... Read More »

December 15, 2006

House bound

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Random House Canada publisher Anne Collins has acquired the first novels of Padma Viswanathan, a Canadian author living in Arkansas, in a two-book deal. The Toss of a Lemon, set in southeast India between 1896 ... Read More »

December 14, 2006

Langenscheidt Publishing Group

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Langenscheidt Publishing Group announces that effective Jan. 1, 2007, Canadian distribution of LPG imprints Langenscheidt, Berlitz Publishing, Insight, Hammond, and American Map will move from Thomas Allen & Son Ltd to Thomson Nelson. Returns will ... Read More »

December 14, 2006 | Filed under: Book news