Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Foreign front: Nov. 9, 2005

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Jen Shepherd, director of rights and contracts at Random House of Canada, has sold French-Canadian rights to Peter C. Newman’s The Secret Mulroney Tapes to Éditions Fides, and French-Canadian rights to Bonnie Stern’s Complete Heartsmart ... Read More »

November 9, 2005 | Filed under: Book links

Canadian Manda Group

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Effective Jan. 1, 2006, Peter Hill-Field, formerly the sales rep for Toronto, Eastern Ontario, and Quebec, will be promoted to work with national and Toronto accounts and will assume responsibility for accounts in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Anthony Iantorno, formerly key accounts and ... Read More »

November 9, 2005

Bergen’s time

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The Time in Between, a novel inspired by a 1996 family trip to Vietnam, earned Winnipeg writer David Bergen his first Scotiabank Giller Prize on Tuesday night in Toronto, where he collected a $40,000 cheque ... Read More »

November 9, 2005

Abebooks acquires U.S. firm

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Abebooks, the Victoria used-book website, has acquired a smaller American online book dealer, BookFinder.com. “Abebooks has had a close working relationship with BookFinder.com for around seven years,” says Boris Wertz, chief operating officer for Abebooks. ... Read More »

November 7, 2005

Tundra Books

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Kathryn Cole joins as senior editor. She is the former publisher of Stoddart Kids. Alison Morgan has been promoted to director of sales and marketing. Pamela Osti has been promoted to publicity manager. Lauren Bailey has been ... Read More »

November 4, 2005