Effective Aug. 15, 2004, UBC Press will no longer distribute University ... Read More »
July 23, 2004
When Fredericton-based Goose Lane Editions hired Nolan Machan as their new director of sales and marketing last week, they inadvertently expanded into Southern Ontario.Goose Lane publisher Suzanne Alexander was looking for the right person with ... Read More »
July 22, 2004
One of the prizes for children entering Indigo’s Junior Booklover contest is a spot on the “junior advisory board,” a body whose members will be able to offer suggestions about the children’s book selection and ... Read More »
July 22, 2004
Victoria’s Abebooks.com, the online new and used books marketplace, has added Australia and New Zealand to its list of international markets with the launch of a new site last week.The site links 300 independent booksellers ... Read More »
July 22, 2004
Random House Canada editor Anne Collins has struck a deal with writer Kathy Cook for a full-length version of an article written for Reader’s Digest back in 2001. Based on a true story, the tentatively ... Read More »
July 21, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
Newfoundland author Kenneth J. Harvey (The Town That Forgot How to Breathe) has sold rights to two new novels to Harvill Secker, an imprint of Random House U.K. Inside is about a man who gets ... Read More »
July 21, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
Ghost Rider, the autobiography of Rush drummer Neil Peart, has been optioned by U.S. company Scabeba Entertainment, in a deal arranged by New York agent Paul McCarthy, of McCarthy Creative Services. Agent Sally Harding, of ... Read More »
July 21, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
Camilla Ferrier, of the Marsh Agency, has sold rights to Linda Holeman’s The Linnet Bird to the Bertelsmann Group in Germany, to Plon in France, and to Uniboek in Holland. The deals were arranged on ... Read More »
July 21, 2004 | Filed under: Events
Author Brian Doyle was named the 2005 laureate of the $25,000 (U.S.) NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature, awarded by the University of Oklahoma and its international quarterly, World Literature Today. Doyle's most recent book, ... Read More »
July 21, 2004
"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 »
July 20, 2004
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