Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

And then there was one

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Specialty computer booksellers have been fighting to stay alive for the past few years now, but the business isn’t getting any easier. One of the last holdouts, Halifax’s Roswell Computer Books, closed its doors this ... Read More »

July 20, 2006

Hushion House files for bankruptcy

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Hushion House Publishing has declared bankruptcy in federal court, citing total debts of more than $1.5-million against assets of approximately $173,000.The Toronto book distributor filed its statement with the Superintendant of Bankruptcy on July 6. ... Read More »

July 20, 2006

HarperCollins shuffles sales staff

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HarperCollins Canada has announced a shakeup in its sales department, resulting in changes in title and/or duties for seven staffers. The reorganization began with Lloyd Kelly, the current vice-president in charge of religious and field ... Read More »

July 20, 2006

Sci-fi and fantasy honoured

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Earlier this month, the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association announced the winners of the Aurora Awards. The winners of the English-language writing awards were Karin Lowachee's Cagebird (Warner Aspect/H.B. Fenn) for best long-form work, ... Read More »

July 20, 2006

Toby Young at the Drake

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British author Toby Young appeared at Toronto's Drake Hotel on Tuesday, July 18, to promote his new (and second) memoir, The Sound of No Hands Clapping (HarperCollins). (Photo by Michaela Cornell.) Toby Young, right, with ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Events

Foreign front: July 19, 2006

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Agent Anne McDermid has sold Camilla Gibb’s Sweetness in the Belly to Opus Press in Israel; Kevin Patterson’s Consumption to Random House U.S.; Nino Ricci’s Lives of the Saints to Laguna in Serbia; Nancy Lee’s ... Read More »

July 19, 2006