Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

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Comparison appallingTo the editor:The column “Suddenly second best” (Dec. 1996) left me irritated. Comparing the Governor General’s Awards, which deliver winners in seven categories and two languages, to the glitzy Giller Prize, which delivers one ... Read More »

November 6, 2003

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GOOD TIMING• Seventy-two hours of frantic scribbling have paid off for Todd Klinck, winner of Anvil Press’s annual Three-Day Novel Contest. Klinck’s debut novel, Tacones (Spanish for high heels), written over the course of three ... Read More »

November 6, 2003

Pioneer women

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The beginning of a new year seems a fitting time to pay tribute to three pioneers among children’s librarians – women whose vision greatly influenced the field of children’s publishing. Sheila Egoff, Irene Aubrey, and ... Read More »

November 6, 2003

Winners, all

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Quill, for one, has always believed being the best is reward enough. But who were we to turn down an invitation to the Book Publishers Professional Association’s first annual Slushie Awards? Besides, there was the chance ... Read More »

November 6, 2003 | Filed under: Book news

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They swear it’s trueTo the editor:It was with great delight that I read Chris Chambers’ “Watch for Christmas shoppers” (Dec. 1996). I recognized all of the customer types, save the Model Shopper. I guess we’re ... Read More »

November 6, 2003

In the Works

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FROM FISHING TO FATHERHOOD: Paul Quarrington leaves behind his rod and reel to climb aboard a 90-foot liner and cruise the Galapagos Islands in The Last Place on Earth, to be published this fall by ... Read More »

November 6, 2003

Tie-ins

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• Julia Ormond, Vanessa Redgrave, and Richard Harris star in Peter Høeg’s Smilla’s Sense of Snow this February, a thriller that pits the snow-reading strengths of an Inuit/Danish woman against the greed of power-mad scientists.• ... Read More »

November 6, 2003

And the winner is…no one

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Awards sometimes create as much anger as applause, and so it was this fall when the Governor General’s Award for children’s literature was not given in the French illustration category. It’s the first time in ... Read More »

November 6, 2003