Workshop lessons

I doubt that any writer in his or her right mind would deny that they can and have derived benefit from criticism of their work and from the positive examples of other writing. And who ... Read More »

January 12, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

For promotional purposes only?

By Q&Q Staff

I’d be lying if I said that my home bookshelves don’t include a fair number of things I’ve gotten for free over the past few years, in the course of working as an editor and ... Read More »

January 12, 2005

From paradise to merchandise

By Q&Q Staff

Once I was an independent bookseller. My wife and I not only owned our own bookstore, we owned the building and the property as well – in partnership with the bank, of course. Now I’m ... Read More »

January 12, 2005

Hand-illustrated Atwood fable part of charity auction

By Q&Q Staff

An original edition of Margaret Atwood's The Journals of Susanna Moodie and the only 10 copies (and the original) of Atwood's hand-written and -illustrated 15-page fable – a takeoff on the Chicken Little tale with ... Read More »

January 10, 2005

Century-old Regina bookstore shuttered

By Q&Q Staff

There are bookstores that specialize in antiques. And then there are bookstores that are antiques. Originally chartered as Canada Drug and Book Co. Ltd. in 1896, when Regina was only 14 years old and Saskatchewan ... Read More »

January 10, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Prince George bookseller closes doors after 20 years

By Q&Q Staff

George Sipos closed his Mosquito Books, an institution in Prince George for almost 20 years and one of British Columbia's most respected independent bookstores, for the last time on Dec. 31.Despite its seeming suddenness, the ... Read More »

January 10, 2005