Lydia Millet is wicked. Wicked smart and wicked funny. The Toronto native, now living in Tucson, Arizona, has two new novels being published by New York indie Soft Skull Press this year. And if her ... Read More »
March 14, 2005
In the beginning was “The Word.” Or that’s what Daniel Richler wanted to call the world’s first book TV channel. Instead, it was born as BookTelevision, and after several ambitious years, Richler will leave the ... Read More »
March 14, 2005
With every passing year, the London Book Fair, which runs from Mar. 13 to Mar. 15, grows more prominent as an international rights market, and the bigger it gets the more essential it becomes to ... Read More »
March 10, 2005
Canadian media coverage of books and authors just got a little bit worse yesterday after TVOntario announced the cancellation of its long-running book-themed series Imprint.According to Anne Cochran, TVO’s director of marketing and communications, theimprint-axed-in-tvo-budget-cuts/> ... Read More »
March 10, 2005
After a six-month search that involved interviewing about 30 candidates, H.B. Fenn and Company has found a new vice-president of sales. Richard Deck, who joins the company on Mar. 14, has no experience in book ... Read More »
March 10, 2005
In the wake of a report outlining the lack of support for high school libraries, the Ontario Coalition for School Libraries (OCSL) issued another appeal Thursday to the Ontario government to recognize the importance of ... Read More »
March 10, 2005
Just days after announcing the departure of longtime publisher Martha Sharpe, House of Anansi Press has unveiled a new marketing campaign that prominently features a number of the authors nurtured during Sharpe’s tenure at the ... Read More »
March 10, 2005
After a year spent building his client base, agent Sam Hiyate has announced the first three deals for his new agency, The Rights Factory. The first is for a mystery novel by first-time author Grant ... Read More »
March 9, 2005
After being shortlisted for the prestigious (and highly valuable) International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Deafening author Frances Itani has yet another reason to be giddy. The debut novel, about a young deaf woman who keepsdeafening-deal/> ... Read More »
March 9, 2005
Don Sedgwick and Shaun Bradley of the Transatlantic Literary Agency have sold U.S. English-language rights to Jeff Warren’s Head Trips: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness to Random House.And agent Bella Pomer has sold Dutch ... Read More »
March 9, 2005
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