Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

In the Works

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BELLY UP: Camilla Gibb’s novel Sweetness in the Belly, the follow-up to The Petty Details of So-And-So’s Life, has been bought by Maya Mavjee at Doubleday Canada. Sweetness in the Belly, scheduled for spring 2004, ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Ferguson wins Leacock prize

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Will Ferguson’s publishing satire Generica has won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, which carries a cash prize of $10,000 (sponsored by the Laurentian Bank of Canada). In a release Ferguson cited Leacock as ... Read More »

April 6, 2004

In the Works

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SHOPPING AND W**TING: Jessica Johnson, the former books editor of The National Post, has sold a non-fiction book on shopping, Til You Drop, to Penguin Canada for tentative publication in spring 2004. Agent Anne McDermid ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Letters

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Falling through the cracksI’m of two minds about attempts by the federal and provincial governments to help Canadian publishers hurt by the collapse this past summer of Jack Stoddart’s empire. While I’m happy for all ... Read More »

April 6, 2004

Letters

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Don’t lose sight of TalonMary Soderstrom’s article, “Lost in translation?” (Oct. 2002), highlighted recurrent themes and addressed significant issues in the business of book translations in Canada, but something was indeed “lost in translation”: there ... Read More »

April 6, 2004

Letters

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Staff got short shriftJohn Lorinc deserves credit for doing such a fast job in his essentially fair-minded profile of McClelland & Stewart, but inevitably a few errors of fact crept in. First Stevie Cameron is ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Authors

Letters

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A call for fairnessRe: “It’s called competition,” (July 2002) and David Drew’s letter, “A radical proposal,” (Aug. 2002)It’s been clear since the merger of Coles and SmithBooks in 1995 that independent book retailers cannot rely ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Events

In the Works

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SOMETHING TO BE: The working-class protagonist of Lynn Coady’s third novel, Mean Boy, struggles to make a name for himself as a writer while battling the pomposity of literary academia in Atlantic Canada in the ... Read More »

April 6, 2004

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PILLOW TALK: Susan Swan’s latest novel, What Casanova Told Me, weaves together a narrative of the aging 18th-century lover with one from modern times about a search for love and creativity. Agents Bruce Westwood and ... Read More »

April 6, 2004