Quill and Quire

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Kim McArthur of McArthur & Company has signed a deal with William Marshall, one of the co-founders of the Toronto International Film Festival, for a humorous, behind-the-scenes look at the fest’s origins back in the ... Read More »

September 16, 2004

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Michael Schellenberg, senior editor of Knopf Canada, has purchased world English and French Canadian rights to military historian Mark Zuehlke’s War Without Cause. The book will examine the lead-up to the War of 1812 in ... Read More »

September 16, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

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Raincoast rights and contracts manager Jesse Finkelstein has sold U.S. rights to Kenneth J. Harvey’s The Town That Forgot How to Breathe to St. Martin’s Press.Nicole Winstanley, of Westwood Creative Artists, has sold Dutch rights ... Read More »

September 16, 2004

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The buzz began last fall, when Kids Can Press unveiled its newest illustrated children’s series, Visions in Poetry, at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Kids Can was touting a unique “graphic poetry” format that combines classic ... Read More »

September 15, 2004

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Random House Canada is pulling out all the stops in an effort to rule the lucrative gift book market this holiday season with The Museum Called Canada: 25 Rooms of Wonder. The marketing and publicity ... Read More »

September 15, 2004

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"Culture belongs to Quebeckers.” That was the ultimatum laid down by Liza Frulla back in 1991, when, as Quebec’s cultural affairs minister, she fronted a hard-nosed campaign for Liberal Quebec premier Robert Bourassa to gain ... Read More »

September 15, 2004