Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Goy soldier

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McClelland & Stewart president and publisher Doug Pepper and senior editor Chris Bucci have signed a deal with lawyer and agent Michael Levine for world rights to a new non-fiction book by Canadian author and ... Read More »

March 8, 2006

Water, water, everywhere?

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Raincoast Books publisher Michelle Benjamin has signed a deal with former Maclean’s editor Chris Wood for world rights to Troubled Water: A Weather Warning to a Warmer World. The non-fiction book is an expansion of ... Read More »

March 8, 2006

The war at home

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Key Porter Books managing editor Jonathan Schmidt has picked up Canadian rights to The Orange Trees of Baghdad: In Search of My Lost Family by Iraqi-Canadian Leilah Nadir. The non-fiction tome documents the experiences of ... Read More »

March 8, 2006

Family reunion

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McClelland & Stewart senior editor Chris Bucci has acquired Canadian rights to a new non-fiction work by Bryan Prince about slavery in America and the Underground Railroad. Once There Were Eight: The Incredible Story of ... Read More »

March 8, 2006

Rivers and tides

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Key Porter Books editor Janie Yoon has acquired North American rights to two new novels by Nadia Bozak, a PhD student at the University of Toronto. The first, tentatively titled Gone and Goddamn, is a ... Read More »

March 8, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

2006 ReLit Awards longlist

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The long, long longlists for this year's ReLit Awards, which are awarded to books published by independent Canadian publishers, have been unveiled.Here they are now:Novel• The Next Rainy Day by Philip David Alexander (Dundurn Press)• ... Read More »

March 8, 2006