Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Social-realist mystery

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HarperCollins Canada publisher and vice-president Iris Tupholme has signed a deal with non-fiction author Pat Capponi for her fiction debut, a mystery titled Last Stop Sunnyside. The first in a proposed series, the book features ... Read More »

August 3, 2005

Sink or swim

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Penguin Canada senior acquisitions editor Susan Folkins has commissioned a new work of non-fiction based on a segment from the CBC radio program The Current. The Obsession, a tale of seafaring gone horribly awry, is ... Read More »

August 3, 2005

Eat your spinach

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Random House Canada senior editor Tanya Trafford has purchased Canadian rights to a new cookbook by authors Eshun Mott and Emma Waverman. The Savvy Mom's Guide to Mealtime Survival is being billed as a “lighthearted” ... Read More »

August 3, 2005

She’s got the whole world

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Globe and Mail medical reporter Carolyn Abraham has signed a two-book, six-figure deal with Random House Canada editor Anne Collins. The first of the two books will be a scientific memoir titled The Juggler’s Children: ... Read More »

August 3, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Foreign front: Aug. 3, 2005

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HarperCollins Canada subsidiary rights manager Akka Janssen has sold German rights to Jeffrey Rosenthal’s Struck By Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities to Eichborn Verlag. She has also sold Dutch rights to Robin Sharma’s Who ... Read More »

August 3, 2005