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Amazon and Penguin want your unpublished novel

Not content to be sidelined by the literary establishment any longer, Amazon announced on Monday that it is teaming up with Penguin Group to launch a new prize for unpublished novelists. Appropriately, the "jury" is ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Awards

Richard Gwyn's launch

By Q&Q Staff

Media and literati gathered at Toronto's Massey Hall for the launch of the first volume of Richard Gwyn's biography of Canada's first prime minister John A. MacDonald. Jennifer Rowe, ManuLife's vice-president of corporate affairs and ... Read More »

September 27, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Bellydancing across the Israel/Palestine divide

By Q&Q Staff

Jonathan Garfinkel launched his memoir Ambivalence: Crossing the Israel/Palestine Divide (Viking Canada) in Toronto on Sept. 18 with the help of a band and a bellydancer. (Photos courtesy of Penguin Canada) Musician David Buchbinder (on ... Read More »

September 27, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Your life in publishing starts here

By Q&Q jobs

This Week on Q&Q's Job Board: Senior Publicist, Children's Marketing and Publicity Associate - Penguin Group (Canada) (Toronto, ON) Editorial Assistant - James Lorimer & Co. Ltd., Publishers (Toronto, ON) Production Manager - Whitecap Books ... Read More »

September 26, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Rick Mercer's rant-free book launch

By Q&Q Staff

Things were shoulder to shoulder and cell phone to cell phone at the launch for The Rick Mercer Report: The Book (Doubleday Canada) at Crush wine bar in downtown Toronto on Sept. 25. The crush ... Read More »

September 26, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Jessica Westhead throws an office party

By Q&Q Staff

It was all ties and name tags and drunken groping at the office party-themed launch for Jessica Westhead's novel Pulpy and Midge (Coach House Books), held at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto on Sept. 25 ... Read More »

September 26, 2007 | Filed under: Events

The making of a political novel

By Nathan Whitlock

An article in The Guardian describes how Indra Sinha, author of the Man Booker-shortlisted novel Animal's People, came to write the novel, which is based on the experience of the people in Bhopal, India, where ... Read More »

September 26, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Awards

Wondering about one-hit wonders

By Nathan Whitlock

In an article on PopMatters.com, Jennifer Makowsky praises Mark Moskowitz's 2002 documentary The Stone Reader for illuminating the formative role that books play in many people’s lives. Moskowitz heads out on an exhaustive search to ... Read More »

September 26, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Ben McNally Books's grand opening on Bay

By Q&Q Staff

Though it had technically been open for business for most of September, Ben McNally officially opened his eponymous bookstore on Toronto's Bay Street on Sept. 24 with wine and finger food and a few dozen ... Read More »

September 25, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Disgruntled writer offers literary agents a raise

By Stuart Woods

The Guardian's weekend edition features an opinion piece by writer and filmmaker Martin Wagner, who is obviously still stinging from the rejection letters he received from agents as a young novelist. The crux of the ... Read More »

September 25, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

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