Lia Lyons joined Meisner Publicity and Promotion as publicist on July 4, ... Read More »
July 7, 2005
McClelland & Stewart senior editor Chris Bucci has acquired Canadian rights to a memoir by author Alan Bradley about his relationship with his mother. The Shoe-Box Bible is a mystery of sorts, and it recounts ... Read More »
July 6, 2005
Kevin Linder, managing editor of House of Anansi Press, has acquired a new book by Terry Murray which looks at a seldom-studied aspect of Toronto architecture. Faces on Places: A Grotesque Tour of Toronto is ... Read More »
July 6, 2005
McClelland & Stewart vice-president and associate publisher Susan Renouf has purchased world English rights to a new self-help book for working women. Dish: Women at Mid-life Tell the Truth About What Really Matters in Work, ... Read More »
July 6, 2005
Agent Denise Bukowski has optioned David Bergen’s The Case of Lena S. to the ... Read More »
July 6, 2005
Agent Denise Bukowski has sold Dutch rights to Anita Rau Badami’s The Hero’s Walk and her forthcoming Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? to DeGeus. She has also sold Brazilian Portuguese rights to Bittergirl: Getting ... Read More »
July 6, 2005
Douglas & McIntyre publisher and president Scott McIntyre announced Monday that Raincoast Books non-fiction editorial director Scott Steedman is joining the firm as senior editor in September. Steedman says that he will be reporting to ... Read More »
July 4, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
Independent booksellers across the country may soon get a boost from a growing online directory and potential shopping spot. Book Manager, a Kelowna-based company that supplies point-of-sale software to more than 400 Canadian booksellers, has ... Read More »
July 4, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
Sarah Warren has joined Talonbooks as the new director of sales and marketing. Her first day was July 4, 2005. Prior to joining Talonbooks, Warren spent four and a half years with another B.C.-based press, ... Read More »
July 4, 2005
Maggie de Vries, award-winning author of Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister, has been chosen as the Vancouver Public Library’s first writer-in-residence. The honour, created to commemorate of the 10th anniversary of ... Read More »
July 4, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
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