Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

The mother of invention

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On Nov. 29, CanLit giant Margaret Atwood convened many of the country’s most important publishers in the basement of Toronto’s Drake Hotel to show them her new invention – a device that will allow authors ... Read More »

January 13, 2005

Lost and found

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Several weeks ago, when CBC Radio announced its five candidates for the 2005 Canada Reads campaign, listeners across the country were no doubt left furrowing their brows in bafflement. Frank Parker Day? Mairuth Sarsfield? Jacques ... Read More »

January 13, 2005

Trippy, man

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Jeff Warren, producer of CBC Radio’s The Current, has signed a deal with Random House Canada publisher Anne Collins for an untraditional “multi-dimensional” work. Head Trips: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness, is described as ... Read More »

January 12, 2005 | Filed under: Book links

Faith vs. Reason

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Key Porter Books publisher Anna Porter and senior editor Meg Taylor have purchased world rights to John Lawrence Reynolds’ latest work of non-fiction. Holy Terror: Galileo and the Inquisition documents the clash between the renowned ... Read More »

January 12, 2005

Fore!

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McClelland & Stewart publisher and president Doug Pepper has signed a deal with Canadian golf writer Lorne Rubenstein and former Simon & Schuster editor Jeff Neuman for an as-yet untitled golf compendium. The book will ... Read More »

January 12, 2005

Foreign front: Jan. 12, 2005

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Jason McBride, managing editor of Coach House Books, has sold U.K. rights to Andrew Kaufman’s All My Friends Are Superheroes to Saqi Books. Anna Cundari, acting rights director for Groundwood Books, has arranged a number ... Read More »

January 12, 2005 | Filed under: Awards

Mystery, history, and war

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It’s the season for suspense, it seems – even literary fiction writers are promising to keep their readers guessing with their new titles. In non-fiction, Iraq is still on everyone’s mind, but so is the ... Read More »

January 12, 2005

Here there be beasties

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As usual, the upcoming spring season – five years into the new century – is smaller than the previous fall’s. Nonetheless, prolific authors like Gordon Korman, Robert Munsch, and Eric Walters have all produced new ... Read More »

January 12, 2005

Waiting in the wings

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The spring campaign of 2005 could be a prime opportunity for some rising CanLit authors to find new readers. There is, after all, little in the way of blockbuster competition: the fall lists are Atwood-less, ... Read More »

January 12, 2005

The way of the world

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In Canadian non-fiction this spring, anniversaries connected to the end of the Second World War continue to generate books on Canada’s contribution to the Allied cause, while other writers continue to explore the conflicts raging ... Read More »

January 12, 2005