Kevin McCabe has joined as wholesale product manager and will oversee all Penguin lines and imprints in the wholesale market, reporting to sales director Don Robinson and working with national account product managers Scott Loomer, ... Read More »
As of Nov. 1, there will be a new face in the Raincoast Books sales department. Sandy Cooper, formerly of HarperCollins Canada, will be occupying the new role of sales director. She will be in ... Read More »
October 2, 2006
A new non-profit organization devoted to fostering discussion of literature – modelled on an American group – will be launching with a weekend-long Toronto event on Nov. 3.Béa Gonzalez, a Toronto author and the chair ... Read More »
October 2, 2006
Carolyn Wood has been named the new executive director of the Association of Canadian Publishers – and it’s no accident that the ACP has filled the position with a publishing veteran. “We only entertained applications ... Read More »
October 2, 2006
A huge crowd turned out for Harbourfront Centre's annual pre-party for the International Festival of Authors, held at Toula in Toronto. (Photos by Rick Mugford / Courtesy of IFOA.) Former M&S owner Avie Bennett embraces ... Read More »
October 2, 2006 | Filed under: Events
Toronto author Dionne Brand, whose most recent novel, What We All Long For, won the Toronto Book Award earlier this month, has picked up another prize. Brand has won this year’s $10,000 Harbourfront Festival Prize, ... Read More »
October 2, 2006
Whitecap Books walked away from the Canadian Culinary Book Awards – held in Winnipeg on Sept. 16 – with three prizes, besting all other publishers. Whitecap titles won gold in the English-language Canadian food culture ... Read More »
October 2, 2006 | Filed under: Book links
Kids Can Press launched its latest Visions in Poetry title. (Photos by Kids Can Press.) Ryan Price's illustrations for The Raven were on view at Toronto's Ingram Gallery. Illustrator Price signs a copy of the ... Read More »
September 29, 2006 | Filed under: Events
The winner of the 2006 Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is Holly Phillips, who lives near ... Read More »
September 28, 2006
Finalists for the 2006 City of Vancouver Book Award are:• Jean Barman for Stanley Park's Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch and Brockton Point (Harbour Publishing)•James P. Delgado for Waterfront: The Illustrated ... Read More »
September 28, 2006
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