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For the past few years, picture books have been a hard sell at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, and it seems that the trend is continuing. Most of the Canadians at this year’s fair, which ... Read More »

April 6, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

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Broadview Press’s efforts to significantly reduce expenses in 2005 seem to have paid off: the Alberta-based academic publisher is reporting net income of $97,850 over the last fiscal year.Announced in a news release on Thursday, ... Read More »

April 6, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

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If I had to lay a bet on the single most popular gripe among Canadian authors, publishers, and observers of the literary scene, I’d put my money on The State of Book Reviewing in Canada. ... Read More »

April 6, 2006

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Key Porter Books senior editor Linda Pruessen has just acquired North American rights to a new non-fiction tome by Cori Howard. Mommy Madness is described as “an anthology of motherhood,” and it will feature real-life ... Read More »

April 6, 2006

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Publisher Doug Gibson has just purchased Canadian rights to a new work of non-fiction for his eponymous McClelland & Stewart imprint. The Day I Scored (Twice) Against Real Madrid is by B.C. author Alan Twigg, ... Read More »

April 6, 2006

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Young adult author Carol Matas has just signed a deal with Key Porter Books senior editor Linda Pruessen for rights to two sequels to her 2002 novel The Freak, about a teenage girl with growing ... Read More »

April 6, 2006