It’s been a significant couple of days for Nega Mezlekia. On Sunday he made the cover of The New York Times Book Review, receiving positive notice for his memoir Notes from the Hyena’s Belly. And ... Read More »
February 9, 2004
It appears that the suspense of a John Grisham novel is too much for some booksellers. Although Random House of Canada set a lay down date of Dec. 29 for the mass-market edition of The ... Read More »
February 9, 2004
J.K. Rowling has agreed to pen two Harry Potter spinoff titles as a fundraising effort for Comic Relief, a British-based charity that helps children around the world, and her international publishers are following her altruistic ... Read More »
February 9, 2004
A public squabble over copyright issues between Books in Canada magazine and the Periodical Writers Association of Canada has cast a pall on the magazine’s new sponsorship deal with Amazon.com. Publisher Adrian Stein says Amazon’s ... Read More »
February 9, 2004
On the same day Chapters announced that it had found a white knight investor in Future Shop (see yesterday’s Newsflash from Inside Report), the chain released a good-news third-quarter report touting record sales, and stronger ... Read More »
The Writers’ Union of Canada has named a winner for its annual Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers – but it’s still unclear where or when the winning story will be published.Nathan Whitlock, a Toronto ... Read More »
February 9, 2004
Two years ago, Toronto science fiction author Nalo Hopkinson made the Philip K. Dick Award shortlist for her novel Brown Girl in the Ring. She lost that one to another Canadian – Geoff Ryman, who ... Read More »
February 9, 2004
Dean Allen doesn’t mind if you compare his web site to the ultra-trendy McSweeney’s, run by U.S. author Dave Eggers. But although Allen’s “Cardigan Industries” site offers a similar brand of oddball humour, Allen points ... Read More »
February 9, 2004
A 16-year-old Ontario youth charged with uttering death threats after reading a school composition in class has become a cause célèbre. PEN Canada, The Writers’ Union of Canada, and the Ottawa International Writers Festival have ... Read More »
February 9, 2004
In 20-odd years as an archeologist and consultant, Gordon Mohs has written a two-foot stack of reports advocating native rights in B.C. land claims disputes. Now Penguin Canada intends to position him as a mystery ... Read More »
February 9, 2004
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