John Harvey and Leonard McHardy have been selling books to the Canadian theatre community for 25 years, but to their friends and colleagues they are still, and always will be, “the boys.” On Mar. 27, after ... Read More »

English is the linguistic form of a mutt, largely a mixture of words and phrases borrowed and adapted from other languages. Over the phone from his office at Theytus Books, Greg Young-Ing lists a few ... Read More »

What does it mean to be a “black writer” in Canada? How does race affect the writer-editor relationship? Should the racial background of a writer be taken into consideration when marketing and selling a book? ... Read More »

Who would have thought that a self-published motivational title cranked out on a photocopier would mark the launch of a successful writing career?Five years ago, few in the Canadian book trade would have given author ... Read More »

When Groundwood Books released Popol Vuh: A Sacred Book of the Maya last fall, Calgary Herald books editor Ken McGoogan wrote that the book worked “supremely well,” evidence that the title, a version of what’s ... Read More »

As HarperCollins rushed back to print 14,000 copies of Bonnie Burnard’s A Good House the morning after the Giller Prize dinner, several booksellers were scratching their heads wondering what had happened to their orders.Munro’s Books ... Read More »