Quill and Quire

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Rachelle Dugas has been appointed the new executive director of the Northrop Frye International Literary Festival, a four-day festival that takes place each April in Moncton, New Brunswick, where Frye spent his formative years. Dugas ... Read More »

December 8, 2005

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Working 65-hour weeks as an Ottawa Citizen crime reporter wore heavily on Jeremy Mercer, who says he almost collapsed under “all the darkness.” Seeking an escape and an opportunity to fully devote himself to writing, ... Read More »

December 8, 2005 | Filed under: Events

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Random House Canada vice-president and publisher Anne Collins has acquired a new work of non-fiction by Vancouver-based authors Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon. The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating chronicles the duo’s invention ... Read More »

December 7, 2005 | Filed under: Book links

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HarperCollins Canada senior editor Jim Gifford has signed a deal with CTV medical expert and Globe and Mail health columnist Dr. Marla Shapiro for a non-fiction account of her experience with breast cancer. Inside Out: ... Read More »

December 7, 2005

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Barbara Howson, vice-president of rights and licensing at Kids Can Press, has sold German rights for Gayle Friesen’s The Isabel Factor to Berlin Verlag. She was assisted in the sale by rights associate Anna Cundari.Shaun ... Read More »

December 7, 2005 | Filed under: Book news