Authors, editors, and other publishing types will converge on a small town in eastern Ontario this weekend for a Harrowsmith staff reunion – to be held at the site of a bookstore once owned by ... Read More »

At the post-merger Chapters/Indigo, belt-tightening is the order of the day, evidenced by the chain’s decision to pull sponsorship from the Robertson Davies Prize and Word on the Street festival. But that didn’t preclude a ... Read More »

The recent announcement that Write Magazine has received a Canadian Heritage grant of nearly $14,000 doesn’t affect the magazine’s on-hold status, says editor Chris Garbutt.According to Garbutt, the magazine received the Canada Magazine Fund grant ... Read More »

Frog Hollow Books is giving up its Halifax home of 17 years for a new location that owner Mary Jo Anderson hopes will draw significantly higher customer traffic.In September, the popular Halifax independent will close ... Read More »

Having kept computers out of his bookstore for the past 12 years, David Maxwell is now seriously considering buying a laptop. Maxwell, the manager of Calgary’s Logos Bookstore, says a Canadian Telebook Agency (CTA) decision ... Read More »

Jeffrey Moore, the author of Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain, which won the 2000 Commonwealth Prize for best first book, scored a hat trick of rights sales recently for his winning title. Moore’s representative, the ... Read More »

Indigo announced recently that it will no longer sponsor the Chapters/Robertson Davies Prize, but hope is not lost entirely for 10 aspiring novelists, who will still have a shot at being published. Ten manuscripts selected ... Read More »

After 14 years with Key Media, Quill & Quire publisher Sharon McAuley is leaving to join Transcontinental Media. McAuley will become publisher of Transcontinental’s investment group, overseeing the publication of two trade magazines for the ... Read More »