Science-fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer was presented with the Toronto Public Library Celebrates Reading Award at the Book Lover’s Ball in ... Read More »
February 16, 2007
Effective Jan. 1, 2007, Éditions Scholastic (the French division of Scholastic Canada) began ... Read More »
February 16, 2007
Jane Rule is among the recipients of this year’s Alice B. Medal, given annually in the U.S. to “living writers who have careers distinguished by consistently well-written stories about lesbians.” In 2005, Arsenal Pulp Press ... Read More »
February 15, 2007
A project proposed by a coalition of four publishers and another from the Organization of Book Publishers of Ontario (OBPO) have been chosen to receive portions of $1.8 million in new arts funding from the ... Read More »
February 15, 2007
A controversial retail marketing project dedicated to Canadian books is now officially underway. Presently called More Canada, the promotion launched at the beginning of this month under the retail banner We Love Canada, with displays ... Read More »
February 15, 2007
The tiny New Brunswick-based Dreamcatcher Publishing has announced a rather unusual foreign rights sale for Mark Tushingham’s debut novel Hotter Than Hell. According to publisher Elizabeth Margaris, rights to publish and distribute the novel in ... Read More »
February 15, 2007
Anna Johnston’s “Brideship” has won The Writers’ Union of Canada Short Prose Competition. The prize, worth $2,500, is awarded to developing ... Read More »
February 15, 2007
Random House Canada managing editor Pamela Murray has acquired world English-language rights to an already published French debut novel by Quebec author Nicolas Dickner. Nikolski, to be translated by Lazer Lederhendler and published under the ... Read More »
February 14, 2007
Coach House Books editor Alana Wilcox has acquired a new novel by debut author Jessica Westhead. Pulpy and Midge is the “gleefully deadpan story” of an awkward office worker trying to save his marriage from ... Read More »
February 14, 2007
Doubleday Canada editorial director Martha Kanya-Forstner has picked up Canadian rights to a new non-fiction title by Globe and Mail columnist John Doyle. The Beautiful Game: Travels in Search of Soccer’s Small Wars and Big ... Read More »
February 14, 2007
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