Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Montreal poet Robert Allen dies

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Robert Allen, poet, novelist, editor of Matrix Magazine, and a professor of creative writing at Concordia University died on Friday in Sherbrooke, Quebec, after a lengthy battle with brain cancer. He was 60 years old. ... Read More »

November 6, 2006

Indigo revenues drop in Q2

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Indigo revenues dropped across all channels in second-quarter results released at the end of the day on Thursday – a trend CEO Heather Reisman attributed to the lack of a new Harry Potter title in ... Read More »

November 2, 2006

Gaspereau

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Rod McDonald and Glenn Goluska show off a specimen sheet of McDonald's new typeface, Slate (which is used in Q&Q along with another McDonald-designed typeface, Laurentian). Photo by Stan Bevington / Courtesy of Gasperau McDonald ... Read More »

November 2, 2006 | Filed under: Events

Painting pictures

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Penguin Canada editor Nicole Winstanley has acquired Canadian rights to a debut novel by Jack Todd, author of the Governor General’s Award-nominated memoir The Taste of Metal. Sun Going Down is a multi-generational saga about ... Read More »

November 2, 2006

Back from the dead

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Brindle & Glass publisher Ruth Linka has acquired Canadian rights to a debut novel by Shari Lapeña. Things Go Flying is about the patriarch of a dysfunctional family who is haunted by the ghost of ... Read More »

November 2, 2006

Foreign Front: November 2, 2006

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Samantha Haywood of the Transatlantic Literary Agency has sold German rights to Michel Rabagliati’s Paul Has a Summer Job to Edition 52; world French rights to Joe Matt’s Spent to Editions du Seuil; and Seth’s ... Read More »

November 2, 2006