Dear Agony Editor, By all accounts, I’m a successful novelist. A good writer friend of mine isn’t as successful. I didn’t think it was an issue, but the other day, I was complaining about my ... Read More »
October 5, 2022
Baker & Taylor Publisher Services has signed a worldwide full-service sales and distribution agreement with new children’s publisher ... Read More »
October 3, 2022
Doubleday Canada’s editorial director of commercial fiction Bhavna Chauhan has acquired Canadian English rights to Sonya Singh’s The Fake Matchmaker and Indian Summer in an exclusive submission two-book deal. The novels are described as the ... Read More »
September 29, 2022
Award-winning Saskatoon writer Candace Savage has been named the recipient of the 2022 Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Award for Literary Excellence. Awarded annually by the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild, the $10,000 prize honours a Saskatchewan writer ... Read More »
September 28, 2022
Shop Talk is a new 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. Helicon Books 125 West ... Read More »
September 28, 2022
The five books shortlisted for the second annual $60,000 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy explore a range of subjects that impact the daily life of Canadians, from smart cities and medical assistance in dying to ... Read More »
September 28, 2022
Vancouver independent bookstore chain Black Bond Books is expanding with the purchase of Hager Books, a small independent bookstore in the city’s Kerrisdale neighbourhood. Hager Books will be the seventh location in the Black Bond ... Read More »
September 27, 2022
Two short story collections and three novels have been named to the shortlist for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Author and broadcaster Jael Richardson hosted the shortlist announcement at the Toronto Reference Library on September ... Read More »
September 27, 2022
Norma Editorial’s Arnau Paris and BAO Publishing’s Michele Foschini have acquired Spanish and Italian rights, respectively, to Kate Beaton’s Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands. The deals were arranged by Evan Brown and Samantha Haywood ... Read More »
September 26, 2022
Globe and Mail food writer Ann Hui has been named the winner of the 2020 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. Hui was awarded the $10,000 prize for her book Chop Suey Nation: The Legion ... Read More »
September 26, 2022
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