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Authors shouldn't just make things up

While newspaper journalists can make stuff up and fling accusations with glee, book authors must be taken to task when it comes to The Facts, apparently. The Guardian reports that ex-policeman Michael Charman is suing ... Read More »

June 20, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Around the world in a few minutes

By Leigh Anne Williams

Salon has launched "The Literary Guide to the World," a series of writeups about books about specific places, organized in map format. (And it's all a promotional tie-in with the Travel Channel, it seems.)Writes Salon's ... Read More »

June 16, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Calling Douglas Coupland

By Leigh Anne Williams

Douglas Coupland is out promoting jPod, and among the media coverage is this reader Q&A on Britain's Telegraph site. The Vancouver author gets whimsical now and then: asked how he'd like to be remembered, he ... Read More »

June 16, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Today's book clubs: no books allowed!

By Cassandra Drudi

The New York Daily News documents the demise of many young women's book clubs in the big bad city, due mainly to the fact that their members aren't reading the books and are instead talking ... Read More »

June 15, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Fave novels: women dig the classics, while men are stuck in puberty

By Cassandra Drudi

Bookninja links to online magazine Reason's article about a "Favourite novel?" survey of hundreds of people and, while the ladies books were somewhat of a yawnfest with predictable picks like Jane Eyre, Gone With the ... Read More »

June 15, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

MySpace folks use contests to lure memoirists

By Cassandra Drudi

MySpace, MySpace, MySpace! As if its mega-influence on society isn't already growing at a whipcrackin' pace, memoirists have now jumped on the bandwagon, and are using contests to entice their fellow writers to join their ... Read More »

June 14, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Children's book writing: it's not rocket science, apparently

By Cassandra Drudi

Or astrophysics, for that matter. Theoretical physicist and mathematician Stephen Hawking is going to put his magnificent super-brain to writing a children's book, according to the Guardian. During a lecture in Hong Kong yesterday, Hawking ... Read More »

June 14, 2006 | Filed under: Authors

More scenes from the trade show floor: BookExpo Canada 2006

By Q&Q Staff

A good time is had by authors on day two of the BookExpo Canada trade show. (All photos by Q&Q.) Dr. Ruth dispenses advice at the Wiley Canada booth. Children's author Tamora Pierce at the ... Read More »

June 13, 2006 | Filed under: Events

James Joyce's grandson sounds like a bit of a jerk

By Cassandra Drudi

Just in time for Bloomsday, Bookninja links to an amusing New Yorker story that documents the grade-A ridiculosity of Stephen James Joyce, James Joyce's grandson and only living descendant. The man who "since the mid-nineteen-eighties...has ... Read More »

June 13, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Used book mogul houses newest store in used castle

By Cassandra Drudi

Toronto used book mogul Patrick Hempelmann doesn't do anything halfway -- for his third book emporium, he's installing 200,000 used books in a restored castle, according to a Toronto Star story. The Hungarian Castle (located ... Read More »

June 13, 2006 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

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Authors shouldn't just make things up

Around the world in a few minutes

Calling Douglas Coupland

Today's book clubs: no books allowed!

Fave novels: women dig the classics, while men are stuck in puberty

MySpace folks use contests to lure memoirists

Children's book writing: it's not rocket science, apparently

More scenes from the trade show floor: BookExpo Canada 2006

James Joyce's grandson sounds like a bit of a jerk

Used book mogul houses newest store in used castle

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