Stoddart Publishing is hoping that concern over cross-border smuggling and the potential for terrorist traffic between Canada and the U.S. will help propel sales of a recently launched title about organized crime. At a Toronto ... Read More »

Carol Shields’ next novel will help launch a new HarperCollins imprint in the U.S. next spring.Unless, about a novelist’s quest for her errant daughter, had already been sold to Random House Canada and Fourth Estate ... Read More »

Victoria-based Abebooks.com has created a five-person board of directors with the goal of launching its used-book finding service in Europe, says the company’s CEO, Brent James.James says the five-year-old company’s new board is intended to ... Read More »

When Susan Rich, a Canadian children’s book editor working in New York City, wanted to return to her home country, she also wanted to keep working for HarperCollins. So the company came up with an ... Read More »

Barely a week after winning the Giller Prize, Richard B. Wright has been named the winner of this year’s Governor General’s Award for fiction for Clara Callan.This year’s Governor General’s Award winners, announced this morning, ... Read More »

Literary Review of Canada editor-in-chief and part-owner Z. David Berlin has left the magazine, selling his shares to former partners Denis Deneau and Mark Lovewell. Berlin says he left over a difference of opinion regarding ... Read More »