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Do you want sugar with that?

An article in The New York Times’ books section points out that the second book chosen by Starbucks to feature in 6,000 of its U.S. coffee shops has much darker subject matter than the sentimental ... Read More »

January 12, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Politics and publicity

By Nathan Whitlock

The title of the website Angry in the Great White North: News and Opinion is a pretty good hint of what readers are in for, but a recent post by Steve Janke of the “Blogging ... Read More »

January 12, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Book-Writing Idol II: Electric Boogaloo

By Leigh Anne Williams

Remember that Lit Idol contest in the U.K. back in 2004? Unpublished novelists submitted their work for a chance to win representation from a British power agent, and a Canadian, Paul Cavanagh, beat out everyone. ... Read More »

January 11, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

More Penney: The interview from hell

By Leigh Anne Williams

Edinburgh author Stef Penney, who won the Costa First Novel Award this week for her Canada-set historical tome The Tenderness of Wolves (published here by Penguin Canada), is interviewed on Scotsman.com, and it doesn’t go ... Read More »

January 11, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Odysseus finds a home

By Alison Jones

According to a report from CNN, the location of Ithaca, the birthplace of Homer’s Odysseus, may have been found. New tests seem to confirm the search team's belief that it is on Paliki, a peninsula ... Read More »

January 10, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Costa likes the Canadian North

By Alison Jones

Scottish writer Stef Penney has won the first-novel prize in the Costa Book Awards for The Tenderness of Wolves. Set in the Canadian North during the late 19th century, the story centers on a murder ... Read More »

January 10, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Tragedy plus very little time = comedy?

By Alison Jones

In the wake of the Advanced Marketing Services (AMS) bankruptcy filing, one anonymous blogger is finding some dark humour in the experience. Radio Free PGW, which launched on January 5, includes some updates on events ... Read More »

January 9, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Caution: Gangstas reading

By Alison Jones

As reported in yesterday's The Globe and Mail print edition, 50 Cent, the multi-platinum selling rapper, wants to get young African American men interested in reading. (The article is available for purchase online or free ... Read More »

January 9, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Mean people suck

By Leigh Anne Williams

Newsflash: sometimes bloggers say mean things. Seems Canadian author Hal Niedzviecki has been Googling himself and finding some unflattering comments floating around the blogosphere, and he’s worked out how he feels about this in a ... Read More »

January 4, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Defending Regan

By Leigh Anne Williams

In the wake of Judith Regan’s firing from HarperCollins last month, another Regan supporter has emerged in reporter and author Steve Ketterman, writing in SF Gate. Ketterman was the ghostwriter of one Regan title, Jose ... Read More »

January 4, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

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