Roughly 70 comics artists and illustrators will participate in an art show this month that honours French Belgian comic book creator Hergé and his intrepid reporter. Toronto Draws Tintin, a "celebration of all things Tintin ... Read More »
Award-winning writers and journalists mix it up with debut authors, comics artists, and politicians in the 2012 CBC Canada Reads longlist. Host Jian Ghomeshi announced the list on CBC Radio's Q Tuesday morning. Ian Brown ... Read More »
November 1, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
John Wiley & Sons has filed suit in New York City, claiming 27 users of the popular peer-to-peer file-sharing service BitTorrent have illegally downloaded copies of books in the publisher's popular Dummies series. According to ... Read More »
October 31, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Digital publishing and technology
Once he was the king of Spain, and soon Jian Ghomeshi can call himself a published author, too. Rights for the CBC Radio host's literary memoir, 1982, have been purchased by Penguin Canada publisher Diane ... Read More »
October 31, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
The controversy surrounding Ling Zhang's novel Gold Mountain Blues continues to escalate, as a group of Canadian authors are now taking their allegations of plagiarism to court. On Thursday, Wayson Choy, Sky Lee, and Paul ... Read More »
October 31, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Every weekend Q&Q rounds up the highlights from other websites in the St. Joseph Media family. This week's top stories include Canadian Family's book picks, Toronto's best tacos, and fashion-inspired Halloween costumes. Books we want ... Read More »
October 29, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Kate Beaton fans take note: the popular cartoonist is making two appearances at Toronto's International Festival of Authors this weekend, promoting her best-selling comics collection, Hark! A Vagrant. Come prepared for the book signing by ... Read More »
Tony Burgess has added a second ReLit ring to his collection of awards. Having won the prize in 2004 for his story collection Fiction for Lovers, he nabbed a second for his 2010 story collection, ... Read More »
"It all begins with a book." So claims the promo video for Small Demons (see below), a new online venture that provides users with a concordance of all the real-world ephemera that appears in their ... Read More »
October 24, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Welcome to Quillcast, a new podcast series from Quill & Quire featuring behind-the-scenes conversations with authors and publishing insiders. In this first episode, CS Richardson, vice-president and creative director of Canadian Publishing for Random House ... Read More »
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