Forest of Reading Festival may be a casualty of ongoing education labour dispute
Labour action has already affected the way the Forest of Reading book clubs work and if it’s not settled by April 1, the whole event could be cancelled
Distribution change: Freehand Books
Daily Deal: Lindsay Zier-Vogel novel to Book*hug
Daily Deals: Audible acquires non-fiction from Samra Zafar, Jean Teillet
Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves enters 20th printing with over 100,000 copies sold
Cormorant Books has already become the bestselling Canadian book in 2018 and the third bestselling Canadian book in 2019.
Personnel change: Figure 1 Publishing
Tim & Elke Inkster of The Porcupine’s Quill receive Robert R. Reid Award and Medal
The co-founders of The Porcupine’s Quill were recognized for their lifetime achievements in the book arts in Canada.

Q&A: Christina Myers’s new anthology dismantles the stereotypes about plus-sized women
“Big: Stories about Life in Plus-Sized Bodies,” a new anthology featuring 26 Canadian contributors, is out this February.