Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Tall tales

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Penguin Canada senior editor Nicole Winstanley has acquired world rights to the second novel by Raymond and Hannah author Stephen Marche. The Abandon Tree will be a mock anthology of fiction from the make-believe nation ... Read More »

April 27, 2006

Kick save and a beauty

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John Wiley & Sons executive editor Karen Milner has acquired a new memoir by Martin Brodeur, the goaltender for the New Jersey Devils and Team Canada. Brodeur: Beyond the Crease, which will be co-authored by ... Read More »

April 27, 2006

Foreign front: April 27, 2006

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Ron Eckel, rights manager at Random House of Canada, has sold Australian and New Zealand rights to Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall’s Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown to the University of Queensland Press; ... Read More »

April 27, 2006

Gill leads Gleed nominees

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Charlotte Gill's Governor General's Award-nominated story collection Ladykiller, published by Thomas Allen Publishers, is one of five titles shortlisted for the The Writers' Union of Canada's annual Danuta Gleed Literary Award, which is handed out ... Read More »

April 27, 2006