Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

The Jack Award

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Wherein BPAC presents the Jack Award to Geoffrey Taylor. (Photos by Rannie Turingan.) A Blade of Glass author Lewis DeSoto, Before I Wake author Robert J. Wiersema, and HarperCollins Canada vice-president of sales and marketing ... Read More »

June 9, 2006 | Filed under: Events

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Photos from McClelland & Stewart's 100th anniversary bash. (Photos by Rannie Turingan.) M&S chair Avie Bennett addresses the hundreds of people gathered at the Fermenting Cellar in the Distillery District for M&S's 100th anniversary bash ... Read More »

June 9, 2006 | Filed under: Events

Dealing with the dollar

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With the Canadian dollar soaring so high over the past few months – it currently stands at just under US$0.90 – publishers and booksellers have been feeling pressure from consumers to adjust their prices accordingly. ... Read More »

June 8, 2006

A tot in the dark

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HarperCollins Canada vice-president and publisher Iris Tupholme has acquired Canadian rights to a new novel by Barbara Gowdy. Helpless, which was excerpted in the spring 2006 issue of Descant, is about a man and two ... Read More »

June 7, 2006

Foreign front: June 7, 2006

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HarperCollins Canada director of subsidiary rights Catherine MacGregor has sold Chinese rights to Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter’s The Rebel Sell to Shanghai Translation House. She has also sold world French-language rights to Robin Sharma’s ... Read More »

June 7, 2006

International buy-ins: June 7, 2006

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Random House of Canada imprints Knopf Canada and Vintage Canada have acquired Canadian rights to U.S. author Phil LaMarche’s American Youth, about a small-town teenager confronted with a moral dilemma following a fatal accident. The ... Read More »

June 7, 2006