by Cassandra Drudi

Four Rights Deals: including Cherie Dimaline and Billy-Ray Belcourt

Appetite by Random House’s Zoe Maslow and Robert McCullough have acquired Dads in the Kitchen: Home Cooking for the Modern Man by Cory Vitiello, co-owner and chef of Flock Rotisserie and Greens and director of ... Read More »

February 8, 2021

Toronto’s Parentbooks, closing after nearly 35 years, was an international destination and community touchstone

By Cassandra Drudi

When Patti Kirk opened Parentbooks in downtown Toronto in 1986, she didn’t imagine that the bookstore would become a cornerstone of resources and support for special-needs parents. But now, as the store closes after nearly ... Read More »

January 27, 2021

"Plagiarists," your days are numbered

By Cassandra Drudi

In what the New York Times is calling "a literary imbroglio," Ian McEwan's sources and inspirations for his bestselling novel Atonement have come under close media scrutiny. The bloggers are all over this one, and ... Read More »

November 28, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

O.J. did it (wrote a book, that is)

By Cassandra Drudi

Yesterday, the Book Standard pointed out that, according to a National Enquirer news item, O.J. Simpson has been paid $3.5-million for a tell-all book entitled If I Did It. According to the Enquirer, the book ... Read More »

October 20, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Quillblog: The Book

By Cassandra Drudi

Just think -- one day, you could be reading this blog in book form. Wired reports today that "Blurb.com, a self-publishing startup, will invite 600 bloggers this week to test out its new service by ... Read More »

August 30, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Sci-fi groping brouhaha

By Cassandra Drudi

Harlan Ellison brought some much-needed scandale to the Hugos when he groped fellow sci-fi scribe Connie Willis and kissed her for good measure when accepting his Special Committee Award this week. He also put the ... Read More »

August 30, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Grass opts for openness

By Cassandra Drudi

Yahoo! News is carrying a Reuters story today reporting that Günter Grass is getting a pat on the back from the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem for his decision "to waive restrictions on his Nazi ... Read More »

August 29, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Gay book yanked from high-school reading list

By Cassandra Drudi

The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle reported today on the removal of a gay-themed book from a Webster, N.Y. high-school summer reading list and the author's subsequent accusation that the Webster Central School District officials are ... Read More »

August 29, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Snakes on our blog

By Cassandra Drudi

PW Daily has a story about Sterling Publishers' cashing in on the marketing behemoth that is Snakes on a Plane by churning out -- wait for it -- Snakes on a Sudoku. According to the ... Read More »

August 23, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Could a computer write this blog?

By Cassandra Drudi

The Financial Times reported last week that a U.S. news service has designed computer programs to write stories for them. "Thomson Financial, the business information group, has been using computers to generate some stories since ... Read More »

August 23, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

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