Deborah Wood of Westwood Creative artists has sold film and television rights to ... Read More »
June 1, 2005
Simon & Schuster Canada president Deb Woods announced her resignation yesterday. Woods says the move came as a “little bit of a surprise” to her co-workers and to her superiors at the U.S. parent company, ... Read More »
June 1, 2005
Authors’ grievances with their publishers, copyright issues, and self-publishing were hot topics at The Writers’ Union of Canada’s annual general meeting in Toronto this past weekend.In one of the first announcements made at the AGM, ... Read More »
May 30, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
Poet Patrick Lane took home the inaugural British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-fiction yesterday for his book There Is a Season: A Memoir in a Garden (McClelland & Stewart). The prize was handed out at ... Read More »
May 30, 2005
The long-rumoured closing of an early Chapters flagship store in downtown Toronto has been confirmed. An internal memo circulated to staff at the 110 Bloor Street location indicates that the store’s final day of operation ... Read More »
May 30, 2005
For the 20th anniversary of the National Business Book Award, co-sponsors PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and BMO Financial Group have fattened the pot – doubled it, in fact, raising the prize amount to $20,000. The winner will ... Read More »
May 26, 2005
Annick Press received some good news this week when the company found out that Allan Stratton's Chanda's Secrets has won the 2005 Children's Africana Book Award in the category of Best Book for Older Readers.Thechandas-secrets-recognized/> ... Read More »
May 26, 2005
The best CanSpecLit novels of the year have been rounded up by the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards – also known as the Auroras. Last week, the shortlist for Best Long-Form Work in English ... Read More »
May 26, 2005
Joseph Boyden’s novel Three Day Road got a big boost down south last Monday, when it was chosen as pick of the month for The Today Show’s Book Club by none other than international superstartoday-show-book-club/> ... Read More »
May 26, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
The Canadian publishing industry lost a former leader and mentor this week. Ralph Peter, who had a long career in bookselling and later moved to publishing, died on Monday of complications from liver disease. He ... Read More »
May 26, 2005
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