by Cassandra Drudi

Rights deals: Michelle Good, Melodie Campbell + two more

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

Personnel changes: Page Two

By Cassandra Drudi

At Page Two, Leslie Bootle has been promoted to the role of sales and marketing director; Kirstin Richter has joined as associate director of sales and marketing; and Rachel Seigel has been promoted to sales ... Read More »

December 10, 2025

Rights deal: Laurie Petrou

By Cassandra Drudi

House of Anansi Press’s Shivaun Hearne has acquired North American English rights to Laurie Petrou’s The Rayburn Affair. The novel is described as following a struggling writing professor's increasingly complicated relationship with an impressive and ... Read More »

December 10, 2025

Rights deals: Three foreign deals for Kallie George

By Cassandra Drudi

Éditions de l’Élan vert has acquired world French rights to Kallie George’s Mushrooms Know: Wisdom From Our Friends the Fungi, illustrated by Sara Gillingham. The deal was arranged by Greystone Books. Siglo XXI Editores Argentina S.A. ... Read More »

December 4, 2025

New AI writing tool to help users avoid anti-Indigenous bias

By Cassandra Drudi

Shani Gwin is optimistic that a new AI tool under development will help people maintain and strengthen their relationships. The tool, wâsikan kisewâtisiwin, which means kind electricity in Cree, uses an Indigenous-world-view-informed language model to ... Read More »

December 3, 2025

Personnel change: Drawn & Quarterly

By Cassandra Drudi

Kennedy Rooke has been promoted to retail director at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly in Montreal, effective immediately. Rooke has been with Drawn & Quarterly since 2017, when they joined as a part-time bookseller in the ... Read More »

December 3, 2025

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