Agent Helen Heller has sold U.S. rights to Nelofer Pazira’s A Bed of Red Flowers to Free Press, and Dutch rights to Ami McKay’s The Birth House to Luitingh Sijthoff. Agent Denise Bukowski has sold ... Read More »
January 26, 2005
There is some Canadian content among the nominees for this year's Lambda Literary Awards, handed out for the best in international lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender literature.Derek McCormack's The Haunted Hillbilly, published by Soft Skull ... Read More »
January 25, 2005
After several unsuccessful attempts to secure a new backer for the poetry category of the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards, and faced with only a few months until the announcement of this year’s winners in ... Read More »
January 24, 2005
Penguin Canada has promoted Helen Reeves – previously an executive assistant to publisher David Davidar – to associate editor, responsible for “cutting edge fiction and non-fiction by young writers,” an important part of Davidar’s plan ... Read More »
January 24, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
House of Anansi Press is taking on a new employee to help them handle their steadily expanding list. Sharon Bailey, formerly of Colborne Communications, has been appointed to the newly created role of production manager. ... Read More »
January 24, 2005
Liza Algar has been made director of marketing for the U.S. and Canada. Allison Urowitz remains director of U.S. sales while assuming specific responsibility for U.S. channel marketing as well as becoming director of international sales, a new area of sales development for Douglas ... Read More »
January 24, 2005
A number of changes at Random House: Kendall Anderson has been promoted from associate editor to editor, Vintage Canada. Angelika Glover has been promoted from editorial assistant to associate editor, Knopf Canada. Kelly Hill has ... Read More »
January 24, 2005 | Filed under: Awards
After years of discussions and planning, the Editors’ Association of Canada has finally come up with a formal certification process for professional book editors.The certification will test in four separate areas: structural and stylistic editing, ... Read More »
January 20, 2005
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