by Leigh Anne Williams

Unotchit? We no get it

Margaret Atwood's invention of a remote book-signing machine -- first reported in the January issue of Q&Q and later picked up by The Globe and Mail and The Guardian, among others -- is now starting ... Read More »

January 13, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

It's Pepper time — again

By Leigh Anne Williams

The media cult around Doug Pepper continues to grow with a brief piece in the Toronto alternative weekly eye. The M&S president has made the paper's "Five for '05" list of things that "may make ... Read More »

January 6, 2005 | Filed under: Events

Litmag lovefest

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Danforth Review has a series of brief interviews with the editors of three Canadian literary journals: Maisonneuve, Matrix, and The Malahat Review.Matrix's Jon Paul Fiorentino has kind things to say about Canadian small presses ... Read More »

December 13, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Sexing it up

By Leigh Anne Williams

Penguin U.K.'s let's-sex-up-reading campaign from earlier this year is still drawing notice. The latest example is this piece from the online B.C. magazine The Tyee. Writer Shannon Rupp has a few promising ideas on how ... Read More »

December 13, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Money changes everything

By Leigh Anne Williams

The best-of-intentions book deal that just doesn't work out is a common occupational hazard for both authors and publishers. But what happens when the publisher wants its advance back, and the author says he doesn't ... Read More »

December 6, 2004 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

The science of sales?

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's the holy grail for the book industry -- empirical scientific data on just what makes a bestseller a bestseller. This Science Daily article tells of a study by "UCLA physicist and complex systems theorist ... Read More »

December 6, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

From Giller glitz to Da Vinci decoding

By Leigh Anne Williams

With award season now having wound fully down, readers who missed Toronto Star columnist Philip Marchand's post-Giller musings will find them worth a look. He writes: "Literary scholars have a word for those little parts ... Read More »

November 29, 2004 | Filed under: Awards, Book news, Bookselling, Opinion

When printing goes wrong

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's a tale of production specs and hurt feelings. Megan Kelso put together Scheherazade, an anthology of female cartoonists for the New York City indie Soft Skull Press (which, though it's a propos of nothing ... Read More »

November 29, 2004 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Poetry: can you give it away?

By Leigh Anne Williams

In Vancouver's The Tyee, Fiona Lam writes about her part in the Random Acts of Poetry campaign, in which poets in cities across the country approach strangers and offer to read from their work. Unfortunately, ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

More award controversy: jury-nominee connections exposed

By Leigh Anne Williams

There was a lot of attention paid to author André Alexis's decision to step down from the Governor General's fiction jury over a personal conflict (assumed to involve Catherine Bush's novel Claire's Head), but he ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

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