Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Ailing poets society

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Late last August, members of the League of Canadian Poets’ national council received a rather unsettling e-mail from executive director Edita Page, explaining that they were going to have some trouble paying basic bills in ... Read More »

November 12, 2004

Song and dance

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"You’ve gotta love a book that starts with the sentence, ‘Smoking opium is an art,’” says Ann Ledden drily, as the roomful of librarians break into high-pitched guffaws. She’s recounting the plot of one of ... Read More »

November 12, 2004

A West Coast reunion

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hen the Association of Book Publishers of B.C. gathered on Sept. 24 at the Vancouver Rowing Club to celebrate its 30th anniversary, members past and present remembered the cohesive spirit that has helped define the ... Read More »

November 12, 2004

Kids Can on the coolhunt

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Kids Can Press is hoping that the adage “birds of a feather flock together” holds true for young adult readers as well. The publisher’s latest strategy to woo its teen and tween readership online, on ... Read More »

November 12, 2004

Munro wins second Giller

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Alice Munro, 73 years young, won the 2004 Giller Prize for her short story collection Runaway, published by Douglas Gibson Books, an imprint of McClelland & Stewart. She is the second two-time winner in the ... Read More »

November 12, 2004

Book City gets BookShorts

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If you’ve been in a Book City store in Toronto recently, you may have noticed a rather high-tech kiosk among the hardwood shelves and paperbacks. The kiosks are part of a pilot project by BookShorts ... Read More »

November 11, 2004

Zero to hero

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Susan Renouf, vice-president and associate non-fiction publisher at McClelland & Stewart, has signed a deal with Sand Dance author Bruce Kirkby for world rights to his second book. The Dolphin’s Tooth relates how Kirkby gave ... Read More »

November 11, 2004

Death in the snow

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Random House Canada publisher Anne Collins has signed a deal for a new book about the suspicious 1990 death of native teenager Neil Stonechild, who was found frozen in the snow on the outskirts of ... Read More »

November 11, 2004

Foreign front: Nov. 11, 2004

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Anna Porter, publisher of Key Porter Books, has sold U.S. rights to Norman Jewison’s autobiography This Terrible Business Has Been Good to Me to St. Martin’s Press, while Key Porter’s rights director, Sandra Homer, has ... Read More »

November 11, 2004 | Filed under: Book news