John Wiley & Sons executive editor Karen Milner has commissioned Steve Prentice to write a companion title to his earlier Cool Time: A Hands-On Plan for Managing Work and Balancing Time. The followup will be ... Read More »
May 18, 2006
Sarah Cooper of The Saint Agency has sold film and TV options to a number of titles: Eden Robinson’s Blood Sports has gone to the Toronto-based Slanted Wheel; Catherine Bush’s Claire’s Head has gone to ... Read More »
May 18, 2006
Samantha Haywood of the Transatlantic Literary Agency has sold Slovenian rights to Beth Goobie’s Sticks and Stones, Carrie Mac’s Charmed, and Kristen Butcher’s Zee’s Way to Mis Publishing House. She has also sold Korean rights ... Read More »
May 18, 2006
The Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Woodcock Fund, which has been helping writers in need of emergency money since it was established in 1989, received a financial boost of close to $1.87-million from the estate of ... Read More »
May 18, 2006
At a BookExpo America panel discussion about the Canadian market on Thursday, Canadian publishers and booksellers took the chance to talk over a hot subject: the effect of currency exchange rates on Canadian book prices. ... Read More »
May 18, 2006 | Filed under: Book links
Michelle MacAleese has joined as administrative assistant on a contract basis. Alison Hardacre, the current administrative ... Read More »
May 17, 2006
Illustrator Geneviève Côté has won the 2005 Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Picture Book Award for her work on The Lady of Shalott, published by ... Read More »
May 17, 2006
In the hopes of capitalizing on last month’s Independent’s Day Campaign, which brought MPs and other politicians into independent bookstores to see how valuable they are, the Canadian Booksellers Association is heading to Ottawa today ... Read More »
May 15, 2006
HDS Retail is branching out again, expanding from its métier of airport stores and news kiosks like Relay and the Great Canadian News Company into a more urban-oriented niche with a series of outlets under ... Read More »
May 15, 2006
After winning the $40,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize last year, David Bergen’s The Time in Between has been optioned for film adaptation by Crescent Entertainment, which announced the acquisition on Monday.Crescent Entertainment project manager Nathan Tichenor, ... Read More »
May 15, 2006
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