Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

The Emigrants

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Penguin Group Canada senior editor Barbara Berson has acquired Canadian rights to a novel by Toronto-based author Anar Ali. False Departure is about a South Asian couple who operate a gas station in Alberta and ... Read More »

October 7, 2004

Foreign front: October 7, 2004

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Anna Cundari, acting rights director at Groundwood Books, has made a couple of deals: Spanish rights to Stories From the Life of Jesus, written by Celia Barker Lottridge and illustrated by Linda Wolfsgruber, to Ediciones ... Read More »

October 6, 2004

Lobster creditor payment delayed

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Lobster Press is juggling day-to-day cash flow demands while struggling to keep up with its creditor payments – and the schedule for the latter has hit a delay.The Montreal children’s publisher, which emerged from bankruptcy ... Read More »

October 6, 2004

De Groot promoted at Penguin

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Longtime Penguin Canada director of publicity Debby de Groot has a newly expanded portfolio. She's been promoted to director, publicity and marketing, effective immediately. De Groot will report to Penguin Canada president Ed Carson. She ... Read More »

October 6, 2004

Harbour buys Yukon press

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Yukon-based small press Lost Moose Publishing has been purchased by B.C.’s Harbour Publishing. Howard White, Harbour’s publisher and president, says he couldn’t resist the Whitehorse firm when he heard that its owners – Max Fraser, ... Read More »

October 4, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

LPG names Caron’s successor

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The board of the Literary Press Group has announced a replacement for outgoing executive director David Caron. The new hire, Ronda Kellington, comes from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, where she ... Read More »

October 4, 2004