Nelson Education has hired Pat O’Neill as Library Market Manager, responsible for public library wholesalers and public libraries. O’Neill, who will oversee ... Read More »
November 23, 2012
Kate Walker has announced she is retiring from Ampersand Canada’s Book & Gift Agency, the long-serving independent sales rep group (formerly known as Kate Walker & Company) she has owned for nearly three decades. Her ... Read More »
November 22, 2012
Montreal’s Blue Metropolis Foundation has revealed plans for a new award dedicated to Spanish-language authors. Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vásquez will preside over the jury for the inaugural Premio Metropolis Azul, presented to “an author ... Read More »
November 15, 2012
Iris Tupholme, vice-president, publisher, and editor-in-chief at HarperCollins Canada, has acquired Canadian English-language rights to Emily Urquhart’s memoir Beyond the Pale: A Mother’s Journey Towards Understanding her Child’s Difference. After her daughter is diagnosed with ... Read More »
November 15, 2012
Q&Q has learned that Canadian publishing veteran Phyllis Bruce has landed at Simon & Schuster Canada. Although S&S Canada has not confirmed details of the new position, unnamed industry sources report that Bruce has been ... Read More »
November 8, 2012
Coach House Books editor Alana Wilcox has acquired rights to two early works by Tamara Faith Berger. The Way of the Whore, a novel about an introverted Jewish girl who is seduced by the sex ... Read More »
November 8, 2012
Effective Nov. 1, Nelson Education is the exclusive Canadian distributor for Thorndike Press, a leading large-print publisher ... Read More »
November 5, 2012
House of Anansi Press has hired Eric Jensen as vice-president of marketing, responsible for the Anansi and Groundwood lists. Jensen, who brings 35 years of bookselling and publishing experience to Anansi, was most recently employed ... Read More »
November 5, 2012
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