Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

In the Works

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GOING UNDERGROUND: Karolyn Smardz, an Ontario-based archeologist and historian, has earned a low-six-figure deal (U.S.) from Farrar, Straus and Giroux for Goin’ to Freedom Land. The book will tell the story of Thornton and Lucie ... Read More »

April 6, 2004

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ROUGHED UP: Eden Robinson has jumped from Knopf Canada to McClelland & Stewart for her next novel, Blood Sports. The book, a tale of urban psychosis set in Vancouver’s gritty East Side, will be based ... Read More »

April 6, 2004

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HARD TO FIND: Thomas Allen Publishers has signed a new novel from Cynthia Holz. A Good Man examines two complex relationships, one between two Second World War veterans and the other between a Holocaust-surviving father ... Read More »

April 6, 2004

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BOCK’S BACK: HarperCollins Canada editor Phyllis Bruce has signed Dennis Bock’s next novel, Nights in the Gardens of Spain, for a six-figure sum based on an outline of the book. Set in contemporary North America ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Letters

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A radical proposalQuill & Quire’s distribution survey (July 2002) ranks some Canadian book distributors according to speed of service. But it leaves out an equally important measure: fill rate. Had fill rate been included, a ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

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Laying the blame for GDSI wish to congratulate David Hunt on his excellent article in the June issue (“Debunking the demonology”). What a welcome blast of reality!I have been a writer and editor for 20 ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Book links

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Making the gradeThank you for the excellent article on the plight of school libraries in Canada (“The crisis in school libraries,” Feb. 2002). The Canadian Library Association continues to be concerned about the impact of ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Authors

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Good questionsIn his April column, Scott Anderson asks the questions that need to be asked about the break-up of CDG Books (“Do owners matter?”). I thought I was the only one having difficulty understanding the ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

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Coady deserved the leadWhile I was thrilled to see Lori Lansens featured on the cover of your January issue, I was more than a little dismayed to see two non-fiction titles omitted from the spring ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Book news