Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Smash-up

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Cormorant Books publisher Marc Côté has bought Canadian rights to the sophomore novel by Edmonton author Thomas Trofimuk. Doubting Yourself to the Bone is a dark, quirky story about a horrific car crash and its ... Read More »

October 27, 2004 | Filed under: Book links

Girl in a coma

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Random House Canada publisher Anne Collins has recently signed a two-book deal with freelance book reviewer and journalist (and frequent Q&Q contributor) Robert J. Wiersema. The first title, Before I Wake, is about a little ... Read More »

October 27, 2004

The Grapes of Aspler

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Random House Canada pubisher Anne Collins has signed a deal with Canadian wine expert Tony Aspler for The Wine Atlas of Canada. The book promises to be a lavishly illustrated and comprehensive history of vino-making ... Read More »

October 27, 2004 | Filed under: Awards

Rhapsody on blue (whales)

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Publisher Patrick Crean of Thomas Allen Publishers has purchased rights to a new work of narrative non-fiction by Dan Bortolotti (Hope in Hell). Wild Blue: Riding the Seas with the World’s Largest Animal is a ... Read More »

October 27, 2004

He go, Yugo

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Raincoast Books associate publisher Lynn Henry has taken on a new novel by playwright and Globe and Mail reviewer Jim Bartley. Peace is about a Toronto man mourning the death of his lover, and about ... Read More »

October 27, 2004

Foreign front: Oct. 27, 2004

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Jesse Finkelstein, rights manager at Raincoast Books, has sold German rights to Kenneth J. Harvey’s The Town That Forgot How to Breathe to Heyne Verlag. Akka Janssen, subsidiary rights manager at HarperCollins Canada, has sold ... Read More »

October 27, 2004