Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Attention Wal-Mart shoppers

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McClelland & Stewart senior editor Chris Bucci has purchased North American rights to Gordon Laird’s What a Bargain: How Discount Prices Are Transforming Our Economy, Our Landscape, and Our Work. The book will examine the ... Read More »

February 16, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Reel deal

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Suzanne Brandreth, subsidiary rights director for The Cooke Agency, has just completed a five-figure deal with Kevin DeWalt and John N. Smith (The Boys of St. Vincent) and their Regina-based Minds Eye Entertainment for film ... Read More »

February 16, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Foreign front: Feb. 16, 2005

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Nicole Winstanley, rights director at Westwood Creative Artists, has sold Joseph Boyden’s Three-Day Road (and his planned followup novel She Takes You Down) to Knaus/Bertelsmann in Germany. Marilyn Biderman, director of rights and contracts at ... Read More »

February 16, 2005

Rosenfeld bio honoured

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Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything by Anne Dublin, published by Second Story Press, has been named a 2004 Sydney Taylor Honour Book in the older reader category. The Association of Jewish Libraries ... Read More »

February 15, 2005