Carlene Rummery has been promoted to ... Read More »
August 27, 2004
Judges for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction announced the 2004 longlist yesterday, and among the 22 selections were two Canadian-authored titles: John Bemrose’s The Island Walkers and Lewis DeSoto’s A Blade of Grass. Both ... Read More »
August 26, 2004
Aspiring authors are clamouring to pitch publishers their book ideas in a public forum at next month’s Word on the Street Halifax, says Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association executive director Peggy Walt.Based on a similar event ... Read More »
August 26, 2004
Patricia Kennedy, a former senior editor at McClelland & Stewart, has been named new executive editor at Thomas Allen Publishers. Kennedy replaces former managing editor Jim Gifford, who departed Thomas Allen for HarperCollins Canada earlier ... Read More »
August 26, 2004
27-year-old Newfoundland author Joel Hynes has sold his latest work of fiction to HarperCollins Canada editor-in-chief Iris Tupholme. Right Away Monday is a comic novel about a year in the life of a manic St. ... Read More »
August 25, 2004
McClelland & Stewart editor Alex Schultz has purchased rights to a new work of non-fiction by Toronto Star reporter Scott Simmie and Brian Feeney. Zero Gravity is the story of a group of tech-heads, led ... Read More »
August 25, 2004
Kids Can Press rights associate Eva Svec has sold U.K. and English-language European Union rights ... Read More »
August 25, 2004
Don LePan, the founding president and CEO of Broadview Press, is stepping down at the end of the year and will be succeeded by Michael Harrison, Broadview’s long-time vice-president.LePan will stay with the company in ... Read More »
August 23, 2004
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