So The New York Times has just unveiled its annual "100 Notable Books of the Year" list, and there ain't a lot of Cancon on it. The only Canadian author we spotted was (surprise!) Alice ... Read More »
November 23, 2007
This week on Q&Q's Job Board: News Editor - Quill & Quire (Toronto, ON) Senior Publicist - Simon & Schuster Canada (Markham, ON) Marketing Associate, Children's Books - HarperCollins Canada (Toronto, ON) Publicist - Literary ... Read More »
November 22, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news
Great Plains Publications launched The Encyclopedia of Manitoba with an event at the Winnipeg Art Gallery earlier this month, and drew some high-profile guests. (Photos courtesy of Great Plains.) Ed Schreyer, a former premier of ... Read More »
November 21, 2007 | Filed under: Events
It's pretty rare to see grownups playing dressup at a book event unless the book in question includes the words "Harry Potter" or "Jedi" in the title. But that's Sir John A. Macdonald (well, actually, ... Read More »
November 21, 2007 | Filed under: Events
It's probably one of the more effective advance publicity efforts in recent memory: former White House press secretary Scott McClellan now says Bush, Cheney, and other high-ranking White House officials knowingly had him lie about ... Read More »
November 21, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news
The special Books of the Year issue of Quill & Quire is now en route to stores and mailboxes. It contains the magazine's annual selection of the titles that mattered the most over the past ... Read More »
November 21, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
By now you've no doubt seen the long press release – er, sorry, Newsweek cover story – that announced the launch of the Kindle, Amazon.com's new electronic reader. Elsewhere, though, bloggers and commentators have looked ... Read More »
November 21, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
McArthur & Company held its 20th annual Beaujolais Party on Thursday, Nov. 15 at Toronto's Bistro 990. (Photos courtesy of McArthur & Company) RBC Royal Bank's Michael Meredith, author Barry Callaghan, Janet Sommerville of PEN ... Read More »
November 20, 2007 | Filed under: Events
With all the hoopla surrounding the launch of the Kindle, Amazon's portable e-book reader, it's easy to forget that for some authors the digital revolution has already happened. First among them would be science-fiction author ... Read More »
November 20, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
In a sardonic post announcing his reluctant embrace of the blogosphere, Edmonton author Todd Babiak (The Book of Stanley, The Garneau Block) expresses his instinctive distaste for self-serving author blogs: I used to make fun ... Read More »
November 20, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
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