Two hundred years after Lewis and Clark set off to map western America, a group of Quebeckers are using a book about the expedition to launch an ambitious foray into the crowded U.S. book market.The ... Read More »
May 20, 2004
Debbie Gaudet is trading her current position as Publishers Group Canada’s sole publicist to join HarperCollins Canada’s publicity team, effective June 7. Gaudet, who handled mainly international titles for PGC, will now be working on ... Read More »
May 20, 2004
Publisher Ellen Seligman of McClelland & Stewart has inked a deal for Holley Rubinsky’s Beyond This Point, a series of linked stories set in the fictional village of Ruth in B.C.’s Interior. Agent Denise Bukowski ... Read More »
May 19, 2004
Toronto pop-culture writers Adam Sternbergh and Tara Ariano have struck a deal with Quirk Books in the U.S. to publish a series of titles based on content from their website, Fametracker.com. The inaugural release, set ... Read More »
May 19, 2004
U.S. rights to Anosh Irani's The Cripple and his Talismans have been sold to Algonquin Books, in a deal arranged by agent Denise Bukowski. Bukowski has also sold rights to Dying for a Hamburger, by ... Read More »
May 19, 2004
John Yates, the former president of LexisNexis Butterworths Canada, has been named the new president, publisher, and CEO of University of Toronto Press. He replaces the retiring George Meadows as of July 1.A graduate of ... Read More »
May 19, 2004
Just days after Stephen Williams received an American grant for persecuted writers, Seal Books, Random House of Canada’s mass-market imprint, has announced they will publish the author’s controversial book, Karla: A Pact with the Devil,karla/> ... Read More »
May 18, 2004
The agent and editor who brought Yann Martel’s Life of Pi to American readers are hoping to recreate that success with another untested Canadian author.Agent Jackie Kaiser, of Westwood Creative Artists, and Harcourt executive editor ... Read More »
May 17, 2004
Saskatoon author, journalist, and critic Verne Clemence died last Wednesday. He was 67.Clemence’s passing came 10 days after he suffered an aneurysm, and just weeks after the official launch of his second book, Saskatchewan’s Own: ... Read More »
May 17, 2004 | Filed under: Book links
New distribution methods, racier promotions, and a blockbuster novel are what the venerable Quebec publishing house Éditions Fidès is counting on to weather the "difficult times" in publishing, director general Antoine Del Busso says.Founded in ... Read More »
May 17, 2004
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