Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Media meltdown

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McClelland & Stewart assistant editor Jennifer Lambert has signed a deal with former National Post film columnist Katrina Onstad for her debut novel, which appears to have been partly inspired by her own occupation. How ... Read More »

December 1, 2004

Heart attack man

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Former Globe and Mail food editor Cecily Ross has signed a deal with Penguin Canada editorial director Diane Turbide for a combination memoir and cookbook, Cooking for Mr. Heart Attack: Bypass and Beyond. The book ... Read More »

December 1, 2004

Foreign front: Dec. 1, 2004

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Agent Anne McDermid has sold U.S. rights to Sheila Heti’s upcoming debut novel Ticknor to Farrar, Straus & Giroux. She has also sold Mark Sinnett’s The Border Guards to Grasset et Fasquelle in France and ... Read More »

December 1, 2004

Canadian icon dead at 84

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Pierre Berton, one of Canada's best-known authors, died in a Toronto hospital Tuesday at the age of 84.Over the course of a famously prolific career, Berton published 50 books, including the seminal popular histories The ... Read More »

November 30, 2004