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Launch for Peter Robinson's Friend of the Devil

McClelland & Stewart launched Peter Robinson's latest mystery, Friend of the Devil, at the Dora Keogh pub in Toronto. A band kept the evening lively and played the Grateful Dead song that inspired the title ... Read More »

October 25, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Everybody's talking about Michael Winter

By Q&Q Staff

For the Toronto launch of Michael Winter's new novel, The Architects Are Here (Penguin Canada), This Is Not A Reading Series arranged an event in which 32 CanLit notables told stories about the author. The ... Read More »

October 25, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Coach House authors in action

By Q&Q Staff

It was a hot time at the Toronto nightclub Stone's Place on Oct. 24, as Coach House Books held its fall launch. Six authors did brief readings, including.... Jessica Westhead (Pulpy and Midge), Greg MacArthur ... Read More »

October 25, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Get a job (Sha na na)

By Q&Q jobs

This week on Q&Q's Job Board: Book Designer - Owlkids (Toronto) Book Editor - Owlkids (Toronto) Publicist - Dundurn Group (Toronto, ON) Sales & Marketing Manager - Tumbleweed Press Inc. (North Toronto, ON) Administrative Assistant ... Read More »

October 24, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Jailhouse library shelved

By Nathan Whitlock

Joe Fiorito writes in The Toronto Star about a maddening situation at Toronto's Don Jail. For years, Darlene Soares volunteered her time to work as a librarian at the jail – soliciting donations of books, ... Read More »

October 24, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Finance minister makes a pricing example of Harry Potter

By Nathan Whitlock

The publishing industry is once again the unhappy poster child for the difference between U.S. and Canadian retail prices, but this time the complaint is coming not from consumers or booksellers but from federal Finance ... Read More »

October 24, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Cormac McCarthy: so in your face these days

By Stuart Woods

Cormac McCarthy is that rare thing in American letters: a writer who manages to balance literary acclaim with a large popular readership. (All of his books since 1992's All the Pretty Horses, for which he ... Read More »

October 23, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Rowling "pretty and nice" at Toronto reading

By Stuart Woods

A for-kids-only reading by J.K. Rowling at Toronto's Winter Garden Theatre went off without a hitch, according to Quillblog's two exclusive sources, both of whom are nine years old. Rowling reportedly read her favourite passage ... Read More »

October 23, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Maureen Jennings' brush with death

By Stuart Woods

The Associated Press is reporting that a U.S. man, Fred Hunt of Burwick, Maine, died on Monday rescuing Canadian mystery writer Maureen Jennings, who was swimming off the Florida coast with her husband. "I'm very ... Read More »

October 23, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Giller shortlist sales statistics

By Nathan Whitlock

According to just-released statistics from BookNet Canada, the shortlist announcement for the Scotiabank Giller Prize sparked a sales spike that averaged a 388% increase in weekly sales for the listed titles. In the week ending ... Read More »

October 19, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Awards, Industry news

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