Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Reading in the dark

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Diane Turbide, editorial director at Penguin Canada, has acquired Canadian rights to Vancouver author Ryan Knighton’s The View from Here: Dispatches from the Edge of Blindness. At the age of 18, Knighton was diagnosed with ... Read More »

September 1, 2004

Brainy biker

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Author and University of Alberta professor Ted Bishop has signed a deal with Penguin Canada for world rights to his memoir Riding with Rilke. The book is an attempt to “unite the scholar with the ... Read More »

September 1, 2004

Nation of cities

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Q&Q contributing editor John Lorinc has sold rights to In The New City: How the Crisis of Canada's Cities Is Reshaping our Nation to Penguin Canada. Drawing on the ideas of Jane Jacobs, Naomi Klein, ... Read More »

September 1, 2004

Return to sender

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Phyllis Bruce, vice-president of HarperCollins Canada, has just inked a deal with Toronto author Kyo Maclear for her debut new novel, The Letter Opener. The book takes place in 1989 in the Undeliverable Mail Office ... Read More »

September 1, 2004

Foreign front

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Agent Bill Hanna of Acacia House has sold U.S. hardcover rights to Brian Francis’s Fruit to MacAdam/Cage and U.S. paperback rights to HarperPerennial. Assistant publisher Chris Labonté at Greystone Books has sold From Naked Ape ... Read More »

September 1, 2004

Doctorow wins Sunburst Award

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Cory Doctorow has won the 2004 Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic – beating out Margaret Atwood, among others. Doctorow won for his short story collection A Place So Foreign and 8 More, ... Read More »

September 1, 2004