Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Our Daily Bread

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Author Margaret Webb has sold Canadian rights for a new culinary title to Penguin Canada editorial director Diane Turbide. Apples and Oysters: A Food Lover Discovers Canada’s Best Farmers and Fishers is a food narrative/travelogue ... Read More »

August 23, 2006

More Lives

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Penguin Canada editorial director Diane Turbide has commissioned two new titles for the Penguin Canadian Lives Series. The first, due out in April 2008, is Mordecai Richler by M.G. Vassanji. The second, due in thelives/> ... Read More »

August 23, 2006

Foreign Front: August 23, 2006

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Ron Eckel, rights manager at Random House of Canada, has sold Neil Smith’s story collection Bang Crunch to Vintage U.S. He has also sold Irshad Manji’s The Trouble with Islam Today to Narodna Publishing in ... Read More »

August 23, 2006

Tech talk dominates BEA

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American booksellers milling about in the autographing area at BookExpo America in May got their first glimpse of a concept that’s already familiar in Canada: BookShorts, three-minute films adapted from books. Nine screens were set ... Read More »

August 22, 2006

Not-so-special markets

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In the U.S., the general public has grown increasingly less dependent on traditional bookstores for their reading materials, to the extent that non-book retailers now account for more than half of all books sold. A ... Read More »

August 22, 2006

A day at the office

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I had every intention of starting my day at the Toronto Writers’ Centre, a facility that opened in April where writers pay a monthly fee to use office space, by 7:30 a.m. Judging by most ... Read More »

August 22, 2006

Heidi Hallett

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Heidi HallettIn April, Mary Jo Anderson, the longtime owner of Frog Hollow Books in Halifax, sold her store to Heidi Hallett, who had been working as the administration manager of an independent department store in ... Read More »

August 22, 2006