Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Foreign front: Dec. 8, 2004

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Nicole Winstanley, rights director at Westwood Creative Artists, has sold Béa Gonzalez’s The Mapmaker’s Opera to HarperCollins U.K. The Cooke Agency’s subsidiary rights director, Suzanne Brandreth, has completed two deals for Steven Hayward’s The Secret ... Read More »

December 8, 2004

Choy doubles up with Doubleday

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Capping a stellar year in which his novel All That Matters made the bestseller lists and racked up a Giller Prize nomination, author Wayson Choy has signed a mid-six-figure, two-book deal with Doubleday Canada. His ... Read More »

December 6, 2004

Manda prez stepping down early

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In a show of confidence in his successors, Canadian Manda Group founder and president David Drew has announced that he will be retiring nine months earlier than originally planned. Drew was expected to continue at ... Read More »

December 6, 2004