Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

New energy at Nimbus

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As Halifax’s Nimbus Publishing enters its second quarter-century, the press is riding high on a tide of renewal. Sandra McIntyre, recently named managing editor and acting as de facto publisher, has launched a brand-new fiction ... Read More »

August 10, 2005

A soul-searching season

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This spring’s international titles promise a soul-searching season, as new novels take on teenage angst and midlife crises alike. High-profile fiction authors appearing this fall range from Salman Rushdie and Zadie Smith to Diana Gabaldon ... Read More »

August 10, 2005

Fantasy league

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Harry Potter is probably the engine driving the trend. Or maybe it’s a wish to escape bleak reality. Whatever the reason, fantasy looms large on publishers’ lists this fall, beginning with Airborn’s sequel, another Crow ... Read More »

August 10, 2005

That was the way it was

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Perhaps it’s because Ottawa has declared 2005 (the 60th anniversary of VE and VJ) the Year of the Veteran, or perhaps it’s because of George W. Bush’s neverending war in Iraq. In any case, fall ... Read More »

August 10, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Ready for the country

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Despite the breakout success of David Bezmozgis’s Natasha and Miriam Toews’s A Complicated Kindness – two quirky titles steeped in the slang and ephemeral culture of contemporary Canada – the fiction lists of the major ... Read More »

August 10, 2005

Songs of experience

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My friend, the writer Martin Amis, with whom I shared a house when we were students, is the sort of person who occasionally seeks corroboration for his own experience in the experiences of others, presumably ... Read More »

August 10, 2005

Me as others see me

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I’ve had an unusual, possibly unique experience this spring as I edited my books for the fall. Two of the non-fiction works contain among the cast of characters an editor and publisher named Doug Gibson. ... Read More »

August 10, 2005

Mythologies

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There’s an interesting discrepancy in the results of Q&Q’s latest workplace survey, our first in three years. (The 2005 survey results begin on page 16 of this issue, kicking off our special Working Life section.) ... Read More »

August 10, 2005

Workplace survey 2005

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Because salaries in the publishing industry have always been notoriously low, the general assumption is that people go into this line of work for love: a love of books, a love of authors, a love ... Read More »

August 10, 2005