Yvonne Mearns Klan, a writer and historian from B.C., has passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer. Klan’s debut book, The Old Red Shirt (New Star Books), was released in June. The book is ... Read More »
October 14, 2004
A group of eight independents from the British Publishers’ Association will be embarking on a trade mission to Toronto and Vancouver from November 15 to 19. According to mission leader Timothy Wright, chief executive of ... Read More »
October 14, 2004
Michel Basilières’ Black Bird, which won the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award this week, is set in Montreal during the 1970s and centres on a mixed family of francophones and anglophones. Though Basilières now ... Read More »
October 14, 2004
Wildlife biologist and wilderness guide Alex Hall has been taking people out to paddle the glacial rivers near his hometown of Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, every summer for the past 30 years. Portaging through the ... Read More »
October 14, 2004
Perhaps no stage in the publishing process causes as much in-house angst as the choice of a book’s cover design. The cover has to satisfy the editorial, sales, and publicity staff – as well as,the-big-why/> ... Read More »
October 14, 2004
Recently named manager of Pages Books and Magazines, Marc Glassman’s popular independent bookstore on Queen Street West in Toronto, Derek Murr began his career as seasonal help at an Indigo store in Toronto. He stayed ... Read More »
October 14, 2004
Due to its “adult” content, M&S publisher Doug Gibson wants booksellers to keep an illustrated reprint of Alistair MacLeod’s To Every Thing There Is a Season out of their children’s sections this fall.MacLeod’s short story, ... Read More »
October 14, 2004
It’s the sort of strange, counterintuitive move that probably only a Canadian writer would even be tempted to try. In the midst of a lucrative, reportedly multimillion-dollar contract for his fantasy series The Malazan Book ... Read More »
Due out this fall, Roy MacGregor's 20th Screech Owl book will be his last, and not even McClelland & Stewart’s offer of $120,000 to write six more books can change his mind. “It’s an awful ... Read More »
October 14, 2004
According to the McGill-Queen’s University Press fall catalogue, one of the press’s lead titles is a book called Liar, Liar: Brian Mulroney, Stevie Cameron, and the Betrayal of Public Trust by lawyer and author William ... Read More »
October 14, 2004
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