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Dan Brown, Simon Kernick, and the marketing fail that wasn’t (maybe)

It's illustrative of the speed with which information travels on the ol' Internets. Stories get fired off, people get their knickers all in a twist, and only later does anyone realize that the story that ... Read More »

July 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

The Time Traveler’s Wife — Watch the Trailer Now!

By Q&Q Staff

Sponsored Blog Post: Opening across Canada on August 14, The Time Traveler's Wife is based on Audrey Niffenegger's best-selling 2003 ... Read More »

July 23, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

An anti-Canadian cookbook?

By Suzanne Gardner

Author and Q&Q contibutor Shaun Smith points out what he's calling a "very Canadian problem" with a new cookbook coming from Phaidon Press this fall. Called COCO, the book will feature recipes from 100 emerging ... Read More »

July 23, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Sorry, who wrote this book again?: Dan Brown headlines on someone else’s book

By Suzanne Gardner

While it may be standard practice to see book covers with blurbs that read "In the tradition of [insert best-selling author's name here]," the Internet is abuzz today about one of the most blatant abuses ... Read More »

July 22, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Andrew Nikiforuk becomes first Canadian to win prestigious environment book award

By Suzanne Gardner

Alberta writer and environmentalist Andrew Nikiforuk has been awarded the 8th annual Rachel Carson Environment Book Award from the U.S.-based Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ). Nikiforuk, who was honoured for his book Tar Sands: Dirty ... Read More »

July 22, 2009 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

Canadian government hosts online copyright forum

By Steven W. Beattie

With very little fanfare, and smack in the middle of the summer vacation season, the government of Canada has set up a website to solicit Canadians' opinions about "the important issue of copyright." Spearheaded by ... Read More »

July 22, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

The undead of CanLit

By Steven W. Beattie

In the footsteps of Quirk Books' Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and its just-announced follow up, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, Coach House Books publicist Evan Munday wants to know which Canadian book would ... Read More »

July 22, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Authors challenge the idea of a national literature

By Suzanne Gardner

Canadian authors Margaret Atwood and Anne Michaels, along with Britain's Monica Ali and Ireland's Joseph O'Neill, have contributed their thoughts on the idea of a national literature to The Atlantic's Fiction 2009 special issue, created ... Read More »

July 21, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Barnes & Noble launches world’s biggest e-book store

By Suzanne Gardner

U.S. mega-chain Barnes & Noble announced in a press release yesterday the creation of the world's biggest e-book store comprising "more than 700,000 titles, including hundreds of new releases and bestsellers at only $9.99." Unlike ... Read More »

July 21, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Gil Adamson’s The Outlander lands film deal

By Stuart Woods

Gil Adamson's first novel, The Outlander (published by House of Anansi Press in 2007), has been optioned for the big screen by a trio of production companies from Canada and the U.K. The production companies ... Read More »

July 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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