by Cassandra Drudi

Shop Talk: Boundless Books

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. Boundless Books 535 1st Avenue ... Read More »

January 7, 2026

Distribution change: Polestar Calendars

By Cassandra Drudi

Effective February 1, 2026, Canadian sales and distribution of Polestar Calendars will move to Orca Book Publishers. This change applies to the full Polestar calendar line: Polestar Family Calendar Polestar Student Calendar Polestar Planner Polestar ... Read More »

January 7, 2026

Rights deals: Kern Carter, Matthew R. Morris + two more

By Cassandra Drudi

Douglas & McIntyre publisher Anna Comfort O’Keeffe has acquired Canadian rights to Kern Carter’s Don’t Tell Me How to Be Black. The nonfiction book is described as a memoir-in-essays that dissects how a childhood accusation ... Read More »

January 5, 2026

Personnel changes: Penguin Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Alanna McMullen has been promoted to senior managing editor, Penguin Canada. Zainab Mirza has been promoted to assistant editor, Penguin Canada. ... Read More »

January 5, 2026

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Anthony de Ridder has been promoted to creative director, marketing design at Penguin Random House Canada. Anna Trew has been promoted to manager, consumer insights and solutions. Zhenia Shestunova has joined on a one-year contract as publishing ... Read More »

December 17, 2025

Rights deals: Michelle Good, Melodie Campbell + two more

By Cassandra Drudi

Random House Canada’s Sue Kuruvilla has acquired world rights to two books from Governor General’s Award–winning author Michelle Good: Eliza Sunshine and The Pretendian Compendium: The Complex Phenomenon of Indigenous Identity Fraud. Eliza Sunshine is ... Read More »

December 15, 2025

Bookseller Madeline Neill dead at 96

By Cassandra Drudi

Madeline Neill, who founded a family-run, independent bookstore mini-chain in the Greater Vancouver area, has died. She was 96. Neill was born in Brandon, Manitoba, in 1926, and opened the first Black Bond bookstore there ... Read More »

December 15, 2025

Rights deals: Emma Donoghue and Kelly S. Thompson

By Cassandra Drudi

HarperCollins Canada’s Iris Tupholme has acquired Canadian rights to bestselling author Emma Donoghue’s Blaze. The novel is described as set in a ruined, violent New York in 2040, as a young pigeon comes of age ... Read More »

December 11, 2025

Plus ça change: 90 years of publishing-industry issues from the archives

By Cassandra Drudi

Over 90 years, many things have changed here at Q&Q – the size of our staff, for starters. But the publication has kept a close eye on the book trade in Canada over the decades, ... Read More »

December 10, 2025

From the archives: 90 years of novelties

By Cassandra Drudi

The photo is arresting enough on its own, even from a distance. A group of seven people, the men in suits, the women in blouses and long skirts, posed formally around a dining table on ... Read More »

December 10, 2025

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