McClelland & Stewart publisher Jared Bland has acquired Canadian rights to Toronto Star reporter Katie Daubs’s non-fiction book about the unsolved 1919 disappearance of theatre entrepreneur Ambrose Small.
Personnel Change: TouchWood Editions publisher Pat Touchie retires
Victoria-based press TouchWood Editions has announced that publisher emeritus Pat Touchie has retired.
Daily Deals: WLU Press to publish Sherrill Grace’s Timothy Findley biography
Wilfrid Laurier University Press editor Siobhan McMenemy has acquired world rights to Tiff: The Life and Works of Timothy Findley.
Catherine Montgomery, Canada Council literary program officer, dies
Catherine Montgomery, a program officer with the Canada Council for the Arts, died on Jan. 5, at the age of 62.
Knife Fork Book finds its niche with Toronto poetry lovers
Personnel Change: Grant Munroe steps down from Biblioasis
Grant Munroe will step down as director of marketing and publicity for Biblioasis.
In Memoriam: Victoria bookseller Mel Bolen
I met Mel Bolen 20 years ago this spring. Already a bookseller, I was hoping to work at Bolen Books, her celebrated store in Victoria’s Hillside Shopping Centre.
Daily Deals: HarperCollins to publish new Elisabeth de Mariaffi novel
HarperCollins will publish a new novel by Elisabeth de Mariaffi.
Deal Spotlight: Canada’s most famous red-headed orphan gets a merchandising revamp
L.M. Montgomery’s classic story of CanLit’s most beloved – and precocious – East Coast preteen‚ Anne of Green Gables‚ was revitalized in 2016.
Loan Stars: Librarians pick their favourite upcoming February titles
Each month, Canadian library staff vote for their favourite upcoming books, via BookNet Canada’s Loan Stars readers-advisory program.
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