by Laura Godfrey

Event photos: YA author Jill Murray launches Rhythm and Blues

On April 10, Toronto's Type Books on Queen Street West hosted the launch of Jill Murray's new YA novel, Rhythm and Blues (Doubleday Canada), about a teenage girl's quest for fame, love, and self-identity. Murray ... Read More »

April 13, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Event photos: Joe Hill grabs life by the horns

By Laura Godfrey

On March 22, Joe Hill launched his new supernatural thriller Horns, while (naturally) wearing light-up devil horns at an event hosted by Toronto sci-fi bookstore BAKKA-Phoenix and the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Way to Display! Smile at Vancouver Kidsbooks

By Laura Godfrey

As part of Quillblog's ongoing commitment to filling our site with ephemera, sundries, and both flotsam and jetsam from around the book world, we have instituted a semi-regular feature entitled Way to Display!, in which ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Helen Dunmore wins £5,000 National Poetry Competition

By Laura Godfrey

Who says poetry doesn't pay? This year's winner of the U.K.'s National Poetry Competition has been announced, and the £5,000 prize goes to ¦ an Orange Prize“winning novelist and poet. Helen Dunmore, author of dozens ... Read More »

March 30, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

New Twilight Saga book gives another vamp her time to sparkle

By Laura Godfrey

It's no Midnight Sun “ Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga story written from Edward's perspective, which was leaked in 2008 “ but Meyer's publisher, Little, Brown for Young Readers, announced today that a new novella is ... Read More »

March 30, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

BookNet Canada Tech Forum round-up: pirates, pricing, and social media

By Laura Godfrey

This year's BookNet Canada Technology Forum “ or gathering of beautiful nerds, as Soft Skull Press founder Richard Nash called it “ took place on March 25 at Toronto's MaRS Centre, and involved about 200 ... Read More »

March 29, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Event photos: Tom Jokinen thinks outside the box at Toronto’s Gladstone Hotel

By Laura Godfrey

On Tuesday night, CBC Radio producer Tom Jokinen (left) launched his new memoir Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training (Random House Canada) at Toronto's Gladstone Hotel as part of This Is Not a Reading Series. Above: ... Read More »

March 24, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Atwood takes home (half a) million-dollar prize

By Laura Godfrey

Margaret Atwood has won the Dan David Prize for Literature: Rendition of the 20th Century. The Canadian author will share the $1 million (U.S.) prize with Indian author Amitav Ghosh, and each winner will share ... Read More »

March 23, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Amazon prepares for the launch of the iPad

By Laura Godfrey

Amazon has announced its Kindle app for the iPad, which includes features such as a full-colour display, optional page-turning animation, and the company's Whispersync technology, which synchronizes the app with other devices (such as a ... Read More »

March 23, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Final Scott Pilgrim comic coming weeks before film’s release

By Laura Godfrey

Toronto-based comic book creator Bryan Lee O'Malley made an announcement today about the final volume of his popular Scott Pilgrim series, in which Pilgrim must defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil ex-boyfriends (or sometimes girlfriends). ... Read More »

March 19, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

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