Justin Koop loved reading Brian Jacques’ Redwall books as a kid. Now, as the event coordinator at Sam’s Place, a used bookstore and café in Winnipeg, Koop finds there’s one detail from the fantasy series ... Read More »
August 9, 2012
Foreign front: The Cooke Agency International has a number of deals to report this week: Suzanne Brandreth has negotiated the sale of Polish rights to Tanis Rideout’s Above All Things to Wydawnictwo Bukowy on behalf ... Read More »
August 8, 2012
B.C.-based cookbook specialist Whitecap Books has been sold to Fitzhenry & Whiteside, the publishing house and distributor based in Markham, Ontario. According to a brief statement, former co-owners Michael Burch and Nicholas Rundall “will continue ... Read More »
August 2, 2012
Ellen Seligman, publisher at McClelland & Stewart and vice-president at Random House of Canada, has acquired Canadian English-language rights to Richard Wagamese’s Medicine Walk. The novel follows a son who embarks on a journey through ... Read More »
August 1, 2012
William French, a fixture at The Globe and Mail for 42 years and the newspaper’s last full-time book critic, died in Toronto on July 24. He was 86. Friends and colleagues remember French as the ... Read More »
July 31, 2012
When Tamara Faith Berger released her erotic novel, Maidenhead, her publisher, Coach House Books, gave away promotional condoms. Now, the Toronto publisher is mounting a “Sex Trade-in Sale,” which invites readers to exchange their copies ... Read More »
July 31, 2012
Former P.S. Literary Agency intern Irene Merritt has joined the agency as literary ... Read More »
July 25, 2012
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