Quill and Quire

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Karen Rivers is set to add a third title to her burgeoning Haley Harmony YA series. The latest installment, The Quirky Girls’ Guide to Parallel Parking, sees Haley and her friends graduating from high school ... Read More »

March 30, 2005

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Veteran CBC journalist Linden MacIntyre has sold Canadian rights to his new memoir to HarperCollins Canada senior editor Jim Gifford. Causeway: A Memoir recounts MacIntyre’s childhood on Cape Breton Island and how he longed to ... Read More »

March 30, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

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B.C. author Andrea MacPherson has just signed a deal with Random House Canada for world rights to her second novel. Beyond the Blue is set in a Scottish mill town during the First World War, ... Read More »

March 30, 2005 | Filed under: Book links

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ECW Press editor Michael Holmes has signed a deal with author Emily Schultz for world English-language rights to her debut novel. Joyland is about smalltown-Canada torpor, sibling espionage, and teen violence, and the narrative is ... Read More »

March 30, 2005

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Journalist Wayne Lilley has signed a deal with publisher Douglas Gibson for North American English-language rights to an unauthorized biography of Frank Stronach, the founder of Magna International and one of the most successful industrialists ... Read More »

March 30, 2005

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Author Bill Gaston has signed a deal with Doubleday Canada assistant editor Nicholas Massey-Garrison for Canadian rights to a new non-fiction work about aging and sportsmanship. Old Men on Thin Ice: The Truth About Old ... Read More »

March 30, 2005

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The 2005 Giller Prize jury will again be composed of three authors: Warren Cariou, Elizabeth Hay, and Richard B. Wright.As always, prize founder Jack Rabinovitch chose the judges – each of whom will receive a ... Read More »

March 29, 2005