Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Publishers applaud BPIDP increase

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A total of $29.3-million distributed to publishers in November through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program grants sees publishers grateful to pay outstanding bills, but nervously awaiting spring returns.A $4.5-million funding influx from Canadian Heritage ... Read More »

April 28, 2004

In the Works

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BIG DEAL: In a multi-book deal that agent Beverley Slopen calls reminiscent of the "old days of publishing," Peter Mayer of Overlook Press has acquired U.S. rights for 11 novels by Howard Engel. Six of ... Read More »

April 26, 2004

In the Works

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A YEAR OF BERGEN: Canadian English-language rights to Winnipeg writer David Bergen's second novel, See the Child, have been sold to HarperCollins, which will release it in spring 1999. Bergen's first novel, A Year of ... Read More »

April 26, 2004

Carruthers moves up at Heritage

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The Department of Canadian Heritage’s publishing policy and programs branch has made two more promotions in the wake of former director general Allan Clarke’s March departure.Annie Carruthers is the new acting director of book publishing ... Read More »

April 26, 2004

Changes

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PEOPLE HARPERCOLLINS CANADA: Phyllis Bruce, publisher of the Phyllis Bruce imprint, has been promoted to vice-president. Eric Jensen has joined as sales director of trade paperbacks. He was most recently a books category manager at ... Read More »

April 26, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Changes

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PEOPLE HARPERCOLLINS CANADA: Phyllis Bruce, publisher of the Phyllis Bruce imprint, has been promoted to vice-president. Eric Jensen has joined as sales director of trade paperbacks. He was most recently a books category manager at ... Read More »

April 26, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Smith’s Style

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Fresh off the critical success of Muriella Pent, Russell Smith will shift to non-fiction for Russell Smith’s Style: The Thinking Man’s Guide to Fashion, which has been acquired by editor Alex Schultz at McClelland & ... Read More »

April 26, 2004 | Filed under: Book links

Happiness at 30

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Canongate has acquired world rights, excluding Canada, to Will Ferguson's Hitching Rides with Buddha, a travel memoir about hitchhiking the length of Japan, following the cherry blossom festivals. Canongate will publish the book in both ... Read More »

April 26, 2004

Trouble in Italy

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Ron Eckel, rights manager at Random House of Canada, has sold Italian rights to Irshad Manji’s The Trouble with Islam to Guanda Publishing. Eckel has also placed Bulgarian rights with Vessella, Finnish rights with Tammi ... Read More »

April 26, 2004