January 25, 2007
Rosemary Shipton, who helped found the Ryerson University publishing program 18 years ago, has left her position as one of the school’s program co-ordinators to take a one-year contract position as a senior editor at ... Read More »
January 25, 2007
The BookExpo Canada task force has selected BOOK IT as the new name for the event’s affiliated readers’ festival and has also formed two sub-committees to manage the festival’s content and marketing strategy.With the saucy ... Read More »
January 25, 2007
Quebec’s enormously popular Grande Bibliothèque in downtown Montreal may have finally found a solution to a big headache – how to protect pedestrians from glass panels that have been falling off the building’s exterior. The ... Read More »
January 25, 2007
HarperCollins Canada senior editor Brad Wilson has acquired world rights to a new title by “experiential marketer” Max Lenderman for the company’s Collins line. Mango Marketing will explore marketing techniques in countries such as Brazil, ... Read More »
January 24, 2007
Penguin Canada editor Nicole Winstanley has purchased Canadian rights to U.S. author Jonathan Goldstein’s new short-story collection, Biblical Superheroes, which is being described as a postmodern retelling of classic Bible stories. Penguin plans a May ... Read More »
January 24, 2007
Groundwood Books publisher Patsy Aldana has just acquired world rights to a new kids’ book entitled La-La Joy, by Michelle Kim Mossop. The story, set in the suburbs of Vancouver, is about a 12-year-old Korean-Canadian ... Read More »
January 24, 2007
Knopf Canada editor Diane Martin has purchased Canadian English rights to U.K. author Sadie Jones’ ... Read More »
January 24, 2007
Finalists for the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s $15,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing were announced in Ottawa today.The five finalists are: John English (Kitchener, Ontario) for Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre ... Read More »
January 24, 2007
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