by Cassandra Drudi

TouchWood Editions announces new publisher

Victoria-based TouchWood Editions has promoted long-time team member Tori Elliott to publisher, effective immediately. Elliott joined TouchWood Editions in 2014 as a publicity intern and has since held the roles of marketing and publicity coordinator ... Read More »

November 21, 2022

Personnel changes: Rocky Mountain Books

By Cassandra Drudi

Rocky Mountain Books has promoted Grace Gorman (Victoria, B.C.) to rights and social media manager. Gorman will oversee foreign and subsidiary rights, along with all social media and digital promotion for the company. As well, RMB is pleased ... Read More »

November 21, 2022

Rights Deals: Michael Harris, Annahid Dashtgard + 13 more

By Cassandra Drudi

Greystone Books has acquired world rights—all languages to Michael Harris’s Farley and Claire. The nonfiction book is described as the story of the couple’s tumultuous, enduring love story, based on fully original research — including ... Read More »

November 17, 2022

Billion-Dollar Startup wins 2022 National Business Book Award

By Cassandra Drudi

A book about the launch of cannabis company HEXO has been named the winner of this year's National Business Book Awards. Billion Dollar Start-up: The True Story of How a Couple of 29-Year-Olds Turned $35,000 ... Read More »

November 16, 2022

Booksellers receive government funding to bolster online book sales

By Cassandra Drudi

More than 150 booksellers are slated to receive funding from the Canadian government to help them expand their online book sales over the next two years. The Canada Book Fund has earmarked $12 million to ... Read More »

November 16, 2022

Shop Talk: Four Points Books

By Cassandra Drudi

Shop Talk is an occasional feature in which fledgling independent booksellers take Q&Q into their stores and share their reasons for opening and what business has been like so far. Four Points Books 1225a 7th ... Read More »

November 16, 2022

David Bradford, Trynne Delaney among QWF Literary Award winners

By Cassandra Drudi

David Bradford, Trynne Delaney and Erin Shields are among the winners of the 2022 Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Awards. The winners were announced on Monday in Montreal at the event's first completely in-person gala in ... Read More »

November 16, 2022

Anais Granofsky wins 2022 Ontario Speaker’s Book Award

By Cassandra Drudi

Actor and director Anais Granofsky has been named the winner of this year's Ontario Speaker's Book Award for her memoir The Girl in the Middle: Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor. Ted ... Read More »

November 16, 2022

Sheila Heti, Annick MacAskill among 2022 GG winners

By Cassandra Drudi

The Canada Council for the Arts has announced the winners of the 2022 Governor General's Literary Awards. Winners in each category receive $25,000, with publishers of the winning titles receiving $3,000 to promote the book. ... Read More »

November 16, 2022

Rights Deals: Mary Sanders, Babak Lakghomi + four more

By Cassandra Drudi

Dundurn Press has acquired world rights to Olympic gymnast and former Cirque du Soleil artist Mary Sanders's Nine Lives by Thirty-Five. The nonfiction book is described as blending personal narrative and a how-to for women ... Read More »

November 14, 2022

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