On May 9, UBC Press will add another employee to its Toronto roster when Melissa Pitts begins her new position as the press’s assistant director. Pitts has been sales and marketing manager of University of ... Read More »
April 28, 2005
In its fourth year orchestrating a community reading campaign centred on a specific title, the One Book One Community program, based in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, has taken a bold step into the future. After three years ... Read More »
April 28, 2005
At a recent meeting for creditors of the bankrupt Trait d’Union publishing house, 30 separate claimants made official depositions in the hope of receiving some of the monies owed them. And according to an official ... Read More »
April 28, 2005
Margaret Bryant has been appointed sales manager and national accounts rep; she starts at the LPG on May 9.Bryant has been with Firefly Books for the past three years as marketing and advertising manager. She ... Read More »
April 28, 2005
Toronto Star columnist Patrick Conlon has sold North American rights to two new non-fiction titles to Raincoast Books editorial director Scott Steedman. The first, due out in spring 2006, is called No Need to Trouble ... Read More »
April 27, 2005
Agent Rick Broadhead has inked a deal with U.S. publisher Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press for North American rights to a new book from Montreal-based international development expert Robert Calderisi. Calderisi is a former World Bank official, ... Read More »
April 27, 2005
Doubleday Canada assistant editor Nicholas Massey-Garrison has purchased Canadian rights to an untitled work of non-fiction by frequent Globe & Mail contributor William Atkinson. The book will be about video games and their effects on ... Read More »
April 27, 2005
Agent Sam Hiyate, of the Rights Factory, has sold Russian rights to Tamara Faith Berger’s The Way of the Whore to Adaptec/AST.Anna Cundari, acting rights director at Groundwood Books, has sold Ange Zhang’s Red Land, ... Read More »
April 27, 2005 | Filed under: Book links
Toronto author Wayson Choy has won his second Trillium Book Award, beating out heavyweight authors Alice Munro and Jane Jacobs in the process.At a Wednesday evening ceremony in Toronto, Choy was announced as the English-language ... Read More »
April 27, 2005
The winners were announced on April 21 at Government House; each received a $1,250 cash award. Mary Dalton took the E.J. Pratt Poetry Award for Merrybegot (Véhicule Press), while Stan Dragland won the Rogers Cable ... Read More »
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