Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Nautical master

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The Canadian Nautical Research Society has announced that it has selected Anthony B. Dickinson and Chesley W. Sanger's Twentieth Century Shore-Station Whaling in Newfoundland and Labrador (McGill-Queen's University Press) as the Keith Matthews Award-winner for ... Read More »

June 29, 2006

Reduce, reuse, repurpose

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Vintage Canada editor Kendall Anderson has just commissioned NOW Magazine writer Adria Vasil to create a book-length adaptation of her Ecoholic columns. The book, which will simply be titled Ecoholic, will be “a witty and ... Read More »

June 28, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Six feet under

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Random House Canada publisher Anne Collins has purchased Canadian rights to a new work of non-fiction by Winnipeg-based CBC producer and video-journalist Tom Jokinen. Curtains: My Year in the Funeral Trade will be a firsthand ... Read More »

June 28, 2006

Snow smells?

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Touchwood Editions publisher Pat Touchie has purchased Canadian rights to a debut novel by Edmonton author Freda Jackson. The Scent of Snow is about a London spinster who lives her life in the shadow of ... Read More »

June 28, 2006

New rules

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Penguin Canada editor Barbara Berson has purchased North American rights to a sequel to William J. Thomas’s The Dog Rules. The Cat Rules will be “a series of funny and poignant linked stories about liferules/> ... Read More »

June 28, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

War within, war without

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HarperCollins Canada vice-president and publisher Phyllis Bruce has acquired world rights to a new work of non-fiction by Jack Granatstein. Whose War Is It? will examine our country’s domestic and international defence issues and suggest ... Read More »

June 28, 2006

Foreign front: June 28, 2006

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Agent Denise Bukowski has sold a number of foreign rights, placing Afua Cooper’s The Hanging of Angelique with the University of Georgia Press in the U.S.; world French rights to Dr. Cathryn Tobin’s The Lull-a-baby ... Read More »

June 28, 2006