A slew of recent kids' book awards and honours have been announced of late, and they include a big win for Rachna Gilmore's The Sower of Tales (Fitzhenry & Whiteside), which won the IODE (International ... Read More »
July 19, 2006
With all the recent uncertainty surrounding BookExpo Canada and its future, you can bet that fair organizers Reed Exhibitions were anxious to see some good news when tallying the final attendance figures for this year’s ... Read More »
July 17, 2006
McClelland & Stewart senior editor Jennifer Lambert scored a coup when she was named a 2006 Frankfurt Book Fair Fellowship recipient; Lambert was the only Canadian selected out of 140 international applicants.Founded in 1998, the ... Read More »
July 17, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
Members of the Association of Canadian Publishers and the Literary Press Group spent last week preparing their responses to 30 recommendations made in a draft report that reviews the Canada Council for the Arts’ book ... Read More »
July 17, 2006
You might have seen them around Toronto, dotting the sidewalk in front of your favourite bookstore – stencilled reddish tigers with “londonstani.ca” stamped beneath them. This is the cover image for a recent release, Londonstanilondonstani-campaign-raises-some-hackles/> ... Read More »
July 13, 2006
Fiction writers had another outlet yanked from them this week when the August issue of Toronto Life hit newsstands and John Macfarlane’s editor’s note revealed that, after 10 years, this would be the magazine's lasttoronto-life-publishes-its-last-fiction-issue/> ... Read More »
July 13, 2006
Penguin Canada’s Lesley Horlick is taking her publicity manager title elsewhere – as of August 8, she’ll be taking on the same duties at Random House of Canada. And David Leonard, currently of Raincoast Books, ... Read More »
July 13, 2006
To celebrate the Canadian publication of Robertson's essay collection, Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture, Coach House Books held an event on July 12, 2006 at a Value Village in ... Read More »
July 12, 2006 | Filed under: Events
Penguin Canada editor Barbara Berson has acquired world rights to Jeff Rud’s Steve Nash: A Biography for Young Readers. The book, due for January 2007 publication, will tell the story of the shaggy-haired point guard’s ... Read More »
July 12, 2006
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