THE REAL STORY: After fighting for nearly three decades to clear the name of her son David, Joyce Milgaard plans to tell her story in a forthcoming book from Doubleday called A Mother’s Story. Told ... Read More »

CINNAMON BOY: Shyam Selvadurai, winner of the Books in Canada First Novel Award and a 1994 Giller Prize nominee, is getting advance buzz for his follow-up work, Cinnamon Gardens. McClelland & Stewart will publish the ... Read More »

ROARING SUCCESS: Greg Hollingshead's next work, The Healer, has scored a HarperCollins hat-trick. The novel, described as a dark, disturbing work that deals with two emotionally scarred people from different worlds, will appear in Canada ... Read More »

THE HEALING GIRL: Governor General's Award winner Greg Hollingshead is publishing his next work - a novel - this fall, reports agent Anne McDermid. The Healer, which will be published by HarperCollins in Canada (under ... Read More »

BLACK ORCHID: At the close of a year marked by personal tragedy, poet Susan Musgrave has signed on to publish her first novel in more than a decade. Narrated by a death row inmate, A ... Read More »

BOOKS IN CANADA: Agent Dean Cooke, of Livingstone Cooke/Curtis Brown Canada, has sold Roy MacSkimming’s History of Canadian Publishing: 1950-2000 to Macfarlane Walter & Ross. MacSkimming has held several roles in the book industry: writer, ... Read More »

THE ARTIST’S WAY: Doubleday Canada will publish the forthcoming first novel by poet and playwright Michael Redhill in spring 2000. Martin Sloane centres on the relationship between an Irish-American artist and a young woman from ... Read More »

MIGHT AS WELL JUMP: Agent Anne McDermid has sold a first novel by Montreal playwright Marianne Ackerman to McArthur & Company. A comedic novel that takes place during the last Quebec sovereignty referendum, Jump is ... Read More »