Today's book news: Whiting Awards for best undiscovered writers announced Margaret Atwood creates Twitter avatars for fans Indian government backs ... Read More »
October 28, 2010 | Filed under: Book links
As part of its efforts to promote the upcoming Scotiabank Giller Prize broadcast, CTV has launched an online reading initiative that encourages the public to pledge to read one or more of the Giller nominees ... Read More »
October 27, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
The upcoming visit from author Suzanne Collins (on Nov. 2) to Vancouver Kidsbooks inspired the store to once again go all-out on its exterior, opting for an eye-catching “ yet more than a little menacing ... Read More »
October 27, 2010 | Filed under: Bookselling, Events
Today's book news: More evidence that Amazon is snowing the media with Kindle sales figures Knopf announces outrageously overpriced Stieg Larsson ... Read More »
October 27, 2010 | Filed under: Book links
A.J. Somerset launched his debut novel, Combat Camera, this September. On Tuesday, his publisher, Biblioasis, posted a ... Read More »
October 26, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Retired NHL referee Kerry Fraser launched his book, The Final Call: Hockey Stories from a Legend in Stripes (Fenn Publishing), at Toronto's ... Read More »
October 26, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Today's book news: An in-depth look at New York's Canadian-run McNally Jackson Film director Ang Lee finds his Pi Patel Nominees announced for new $50,000 South Asian literary prize Jane Austen needed an editor just ... Read More »
October 26, 2010 | Filed under: Book links
The Canada Council for the Arts announced the winners of the 21st Canada-Japan Literary Awards on Monday. Burnaby, B.C., authors Masako and Stanley Fukawa won $10,000 for Spirit of the Nikkei Fleet, a historical account ... Read More »
October 25, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Each year at Harbourfront's International Festival of Authors, the literary festival currently underway (until Saturday) in Toronto, PEN Canada sponsors an empty chair to bring attention to writers around the world who have been imprisoned ... Read More »
October 25, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Book trailers are becoming more pervasive and sophisticated all the time; they're also becoming more effective as tools for selling books. (HarperCollins's creepy trailer for Emma Donoghue's Room was a hit on the Internet even ... Read More »
October 25, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
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