A handful of Canadian-authored and -edited titles have turned up on the lists of finalists for this year's Lambda Literary Awards, which have been handed out for the last 18 years to the best in ... Read More »
March 14, 2006
Toronto novelist Peter Robinson is one of the finalists in the mystery/thriller category for this year's Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. Robinson is shortlisted for Strange Affair, and will face stiff competition for the prizela-times-book-prize/> ... Read More »
March 14, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
Orca Book Publishers has been named the winner of a Western Regional Book Design and Production Award in the children's and young adult category for By a Thread written by Ned Dickens, illustrated by Graham ... Read More »
March 14, 2006
It seems that the prognosticators were correct. According to many of the Canadian agents and publishers who attended the London Book Fair last week, the move to the new ExCel Centre – located far from ... Read More »
March 13, 2006
Last Thursday, longtime national account product manager at Penguin Canada, Don Robinson, was appointed to the newly created position of national sales director. The creation of the position, according to Penguin Canada president Ed Carson, ... Read More »
March 13, 2006
When the steering committee of the University of Calgary’s Markin-Flanagan Programme for Distinguished Writers invited the prolific American author Frederick Busch to give a public reading later this month, they did not count on ill ... Read More »
March 13, 2006
Last year, we began to explore the possibility of printing Quill & Quire on Ancient Forest Friendly recycled paper. The Vancouver-based group Markets Initiative has already had great success in inspiring the country’s book publishers ... Read More »
March 13, 2006
Teacher’s crutch or door opener? Publishing fad or silver bullet? Inauthentic or accessible? Levelled books, or supplementary readers written specifically to correspond to an escalating set of language skills, elicit highly polarized reactions from teachers, ... Read More »
March 13, 2006
Memoirs, the Middle East, and environmental issues are prominent in the spring season’s international lists, which are heavy on non-fiction. But followers of fiction can expect big books from the likes of Philip Roth, Sarah ... Read More »
March 13, 2006
Series titles reign supreme in children’s books this season, with many of the major publishers launching a new flotilla or adding to existing ones. But in the midst of much that’s familiar, there are still ... Read More »
March 13, 2006
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