Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Surviving loss

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McClelland & Stewart vice-president and associate publisher of non-fiction Susan Renouf has acquired Canadian rights to a new memoir by 9/11 widow Abigail Carter, entitled Following the Smoke. Carter is a Canadian who resides in ... Read More »

November 8, 2006

Missing person

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Brindle & Glass publisher Ruth Linka has acquired Canadian rights to Brett Alexander Savory’s In and Down, the tale of two brothers abandoned by their mother and left in the care of their father. When ... Read More »

November 8, 2006

By the numbers

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McClelland & Stewart editor Chris Bucci has acquired Canadian rights to a new non-fiction work by Dalhousie University professor Jason Brown. Our Days Are Numbered: How Mathematics Orders Our Lives examines a typical day through ... Read More »

November 8, 2006 | Filed under: Awards

International Buy-ins: Nov. 8, 2006

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Penguin Canada editorial director Andrea Crozier has acquired Canadian rights to a new U.S. self-help title by Daniel S. Kirschenbaum, Ryan Craig, and Molly Carmel, entitled The Sierras Weight Loss Solution for Kids and Teens: ... Read More »

November 8, 2006

Foreign Front: Nov. 8, 2006

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Shaun Bradley of the Transatlantic Literary Agency has sold Korean rights to Wade Rowland’s Greed, Inc. to Jihyero Publishing, and French-language rights to Gary Geddes’ Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things to Editions Névé in Montreal. ... Read More »

November 8, 2006