The Writers’ Trust of Canada has named a new executive director. Mary Osborne will step into the role in January, taking over from Don Oravec. Osborne, who grew up in Kitchener, Ontario, moved back to ... Read More »
December 6, 2012
BookThug publisher Jay MillAr has acquired A, by André Alexis, a novella and a series of essays on the subject of creativity.* Publication is scheduled for October 2013. BookThug has also acquired a novel by ... Read More »
December 5, 2012
Robyn Read has been hired as managing editor for Banff Centre Press. Read is a freelance editor who worked as acquiring editor for Freehand Books from 2009 to ’11. She holds a Ph.D. in English ... Read More »
December 3, 2012
Effective Jan. 16, Diane Young joins Dundurn Press as editorial director. ... Read More »
November 29, 2012
Heritage Group Distribution has hired Lisa Pearce as publishers’ representative for Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Based in Winnipeg, Pearce brings over 13 years of book-trade experience running her own agency and, most recently, representing the Prairie ... Read More »
November 29, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
McClelland & Stewart president and publisher Doug Pepper has commissioned two works of non-fiction from investigative reporter and author Paula Todd, to be published by M&S’s Signal imprint. Samantha Haywood of the Transatlantic Literary Agency ... Read More »
November 29, 2012
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November 27, 2012 | Filed under: Books of the Year
After 36 years as a sales representative, Kate Walker is still optimistic about the future of the publishing industry. “We have some really bright people taking over in publishing and as librarians,” says Walker, who ... Read More »
November 26, 2012
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November 26, 2012 | Filed under: Books of the Year
Patrick Crean, publisher of the HarperCollins Canada imprint Patrick Crean Editions, has pre-empted Canadian rights to Brian Payton’s novel The Wind Is Not a River, a love story set in 1943 on the Japanese-occupied Aleutian ... Read More »
November 23, 2012
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