A few years ago, Globe and Mail scribe John Allemang wrote an article for the paper’s Focus section about aliterates – people who can read perfectly well, but who have gotten out of the habit ... Read More »
April 19, 2006
At the start of 2006, Dulcey Antonucci moved from McClelland & Stewart, where she had been a publicist since 2004, to Simon & Schuster Canada to become senior publicist. It’s a long way from Stone ... Read More »
April 19, 2006
When the world’s literary agents and rights professionals were winding down a harried week at the Frankfurt Book Fair last October, the British magazine Publishing News made a point of acknowledging their often thankless labours ... Read More »
April 19, 2006
The creation of a new centre for the study of Canadian literature came about because of an Edmonton dermatologist who loves books. Two years ago, in a series of conversations with authors, academics, and readers, ... Read More »
April 19, 2006
The tempest touched off by Ryan Bigge’s scathing Toronto Star review of Globe and Mail columnist Leah McLaren’s novel The Continuity Girl has been covered widely, both on blogs and even in print, where the ... Read More »
April 19, 2006
he senior editor position at Tundra Books is the latest stop in Kathryn Cole’s career in children’s publishing, which began 36 years ago at Scholastic Canada, where she was the art director for two decades. ... Read More »
April 19, 2006
The marketing challenges of books and CDs are similar in a lot of ways. They are both small, artist-driven products, sold in a handful of large retail outlets, a network of smaller stores, or online. ... Read More »
April 19, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
The 2005 Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award shortlist includes one high-profile novelist, Joseph Boyden, and a cast of other known entities in the Canadian publishing industry. The nomination is just the latest in a ... Read More »
April 17, 2006
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