by Q&Q Staff

Personnel change: Heritage Group Distribution

Heather Parsons has joined Heritage Group Distribution as sales and marketing manager. In her new role, Parsons will represent Heritage Group publishers to the gift/specialty and retail trade in the Vancouver area, markets that were previously ... Read More »

October 4, 2013

UBC announces writing prize in partnership with HarperCollins Canada and The Cooke Agency

By Q&Q Staff

HarperCollins Canada and The Cooke Agency have launched a new writing prize in partnership with the University of British Columbia’s creative writing program. The winner of the annual HarperCollins Canada/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction ... Read More »

October 3, 2013

Former D&M staffers launch Page Two, a twist on the traditional literary agency

By Q&Q Staff

Former D&M Publishers staffers Trena White and Jesse Finkelstein have announced the launch of a new company, Page Two Strategies, that will serve both authors and corporate clients on a variety of projects. White and ... Read More »

October 3, 2013

Deals: Penguin Canada acquires debut story collection; Anna Porter book optioned for film; and more

By Q&Q Staff

Penguin Canada publisher and president Nicole Winstanley has acquired Wallflowers, a collection of short stories by Eliza Robertson. Robertson’s story “We Walked on Water,” which originally appeared in Granta, won this year’s Commonwealth Short Story ... Read More »

October 2, 2013

Personnel changes: McGill-Queen’s University Press

By Q&Q Staff

Jonathan Crago has assumed the newly created role of editor-in-chief at McGill-Queen’s University Press. Kayla Madden ... Read More »

October 2, 2013

Deals: Michael Cho graphic novel lands at Pantheon; Invisible acquires debut story collection; and more

By Q&Q Staff

Random House Canada publisher Anne Collins has acquired Canadian English-language rights to The Change Room, a novel by Karen Connelly that is being billed as “The Women’s Room for a new generation.” The book will ... Read More »

September 25, 2013

Penguin Canada gives self-published novel a boost

By Q&Q Staff

The latest self-publishing success to land at a major house is by a first-time Canadian author. J.L. Witterick’s My Mother’s Secret has sold 15,000 print copies in Canada since being self-published six months ago. The ... Read More »

September 19, 2013

Hundreds of performers, including a Monty Python vet, lend their talents to a new Tradewind children’s book

By Q&Q Staff

An ambitious new children’s book and musical CD, published by Vancouver’s Tradewind Books, attracted an international creative team, including Monty Python alumnus Terry Jones. Montreal artistic director Dimitris Ilias conceived Time for Flowers, Time for ... Read More »

September 19, 2013

Scott McIntyre lands with former colleagues at Figure 1

By Q&Q Staff

Former Douglas & McIntyre publisher Scott McIntyre has accepted his first publishing job following the bankruptcy last fall of the company he co-founded. McIntyre will be reunited with three of his D&M colleagues – Chris ... Read More »

September 19, 2013

Distribution change: The Secret Mountain

By Q&Q Staff

Effective immediately, The Secret Mountain (formerly distributed by University of Toronto Press Distribution) will be distributed in Canada by Independent ... Read More »

September 18, 2013

Prev 51 525354 55....1174 1175 Next

Quill and Quire

Personnel change: Heritage Group Distribution

UBC announces writing prize in partnership with HarperCollins Canada and The Cooke Agency

Former D&M staffers launch Page Two, a twist on the traditional literary agency

Deals: Penguin Canada acquires debut story collection; Anna Porter book optioned for film; and more

Personnel changes: McGill-Queen’s University Press

Deals: Michael Cho graphic novel lands at Pantheon; Invisible acquires debut story collection; and more

Penguin Canada gives self-published novel a boost

Hundreds of performers, including a Monty Python vet, lend their talents to a new Tradewind children’s book

Scott McIntyre lands with former colleagues at Figure 1

Distribution change: The Secret Mountain

Job Board