by Stuart Woods

Book marketing on a budget

In the latest issue of The New Yorker, Ellis Weiner takes a satirical look at how U.S. publishing houses are coping in a down market. In this Shouts & Murmurs piece, an intern "brought on ... Read More »

October 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Ray Robertson on baiting the Giller

By Stuart Woods

Writing in the National Post books blog, novelist Ray Robertson says that while Alice Munro may have to forcibly remove her work from Scotiabank Giller Prize consideration, he doesn't even bother with the formality “ ... Read More »

October 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

October Q&Q: Shane Peacock, Kelley Armstrong, and more in our KidLit Special

By Stuart Woods

With the third instalment in his burgeoning Sherlock Holmes series set for publication this month, could Shane Peacock “ Q&Q's cover star for the October issue, now on newsstands “ be the next big name ... Read More »

October 8, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Reaction to Herta MÃ¼ller’s Nobel Prize win

By Stuart Woods

The Romanian-born German author Herta MÃ¼ller has won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. If you've never heard of her before, that's understandable: while she's widely read in Eastern Europe and is one of Germany's ... Read More »

October 8, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Margaret Atwood on friendship, Stephen King in Toronto, and more

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: Margaret Atwood, who recently reviewed the novel of a close friend, reflects on weighing truth against friendship Introducing the vook, Simon & Schuster's cleverly named hybrid of an e-book ... Read More »

October 1, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Yann Martel in orbit

By Stuart Woods

It's been a good year for Canadian authors when it comes to outer space. This summer, when astronauts Julie Payette and Robert Thirsk visited the International Space Station, they took with them copies of space-themed books ... Read More »

September 29, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Robert “Jackpot” Sawyer on tonight’s FlashForward premiere

By Stuart Woods

It's been a decade in the making, but tonight will see the premiere of the new ABC television series FlashForward, based on the novel by Robert J. Sawyer. The show, which is being billed as ... Read More »

September 24, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Joan Thomas takes Amazon first novel award

By Stuart Woods

The winner of this year's Amazon First Novel Award is Winnipeg author Joan Thomas, who won for Reading by Lightning (Goose Lane Editions). A coming-of-age tale set in rural Manitoba around the time of the ... Read More »

September 24, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Oprah, Dan Brown, Google, and more “ it’s a big news day in the book biz

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: Did Ingram accidentally leak the next Oprah book club pick? (By the way, it's Uwem Akpan's short story collection Say You're One of Them) Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol ... Read More »

September 17, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Steven Galloway to Barbara Kay: I’m a Canadian novelist and proud of it

By Stuart Woods

Last week, National Post columnist Barbara Kay stirred up some controversy when she trashed Lisa Moore's novel February for being both unmanly and unreadable “ a symptom of what Kay describes as an overly feminized, ... Read More »

September 17, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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Book marketing on a budget

Ray Robertson on baiting the Giller

October Q&Q: Shane Peacock, Kelley Armstrong, and more in our KidLit Special

Reaction to Herta MÃ¼ller’s Nobel Prize win

Bookmarks: Margaret Atwood on friendship, Stephen King in Toronto, and more

Yann Martel in orbit

Robert “Jackpot” Sawyer on tonight’s FlashForward premiere

Joan Thomas takes Amazon first novel award

Bookmarks: Oprah, Dan Brown, Google, and more “ it’s a big news day in the book biz

Steven Galloway to Barbara Kay: I’m a Canadian novelist and proud of it

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