Deborah Wood of Westwood Creative Artists has optioned film and television rights to Rosemary Sullivan’s ... Read More »
June 5, 2006
Raincoast Books rights and contracts manager Leslie Hurtig has sold U.S. rights to Katy Hutchison’s Walking After Midnight to New Harbinger Publications. She has also sold U.S. rights to Sherri Magee and Kathy Scalzo’s Picking ... Read More »
June 5, 2006
Novelist Michael Winter is making the leap from House of Anansi Press to Penguin Canada for his next novel, The Architects Are Here, due out in spring 2007.The two-book deal, which was described in a ... Read More »
June 5, 2006
Geoffrey Taylor, the director of Toronto's International Festival of Authors and Harbourfront Reading Series, has been named the winner of this year's Jack Award. Named for M&S publisher Jack McClelland, the award is handed out ... Read More »
June 5, 2006
The only work of non-fiction on this year's shortlist for the $15,000 Toronto Book Award is uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto, edited by Jason McBride and Alana Wilcox. That title is one of two on ... Read More »
June 5, 2006
In a departure from its usual, more highbrow non-fiction fare, McClelland & Stewart published Richard Béliveau and Denis Gingras’s smash Quebec hit Foods That Fight Cancer last Tuesday.Acquiring editor Susan Renouf, M&S’s associate publisher for ... Read More »
June 5, 2006
Sylvia Legris’ Nerve Squall (Coach House Books) took home the award for Canadian poetry at the Griffin Poetry Prize ceremony in Toronto last night. The collection, Legris’ third, was widely acclaimed upon its publication, and ... Read More »
June 2, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
Publishers have been getting more and more vocal about their disenchantment with BookExpo Canada over the past few months, and there are indications that their concerns are about to reach critical mass. Late last week, ... Read More »
June 1, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
After an investigation that spanned nearly 18 months, two people, including one former employee of Access Copyright, were charged Tuesday with fraud and attempted fraud for allegedly mailing cheques worth a total of $61,343 from ... Read More »
June 1, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
Photos from the cocktail party, ceremony and dancing at the Griffin Poetry Prize ceremony. (Photos by Tom Sandler.) Canadian poet Erin Moure, nominated for Little Theatres, eschews the Fosbury flop on this high jump over ... Read More »
June 1, 2006 | Filed under: Events
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