Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Why poetry still matters

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Sometimes it seems like there’s no place for poetry. Most publishing houses steer clear of it. Bookstores stock little of it. And, given the choice, most folks would prefer root canal to the idea of ... Read More »

April 3, 2004

In the Works

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CRIMES AND PASSION: Poet and novelist Maggie Helwig has sold Canadian and U.S. rights to her second novel, Between Mountains, to Knopf Canada’s Louise Dennys for publication in spring 2004. (In an unusual arrangement, Knopf ... Read More »

April 2, 2004

In the Works

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SMOKING HAZARDS: Barbara Berson has acquired Elizabeth Ruth’s second novel for Penguin Canada. (Her first, Ten Good Seconds of Silence, was published by Dundurn Press in 2001.) Set in the tobacco territory of southwestern Ontario, ... Read More »

April 2, 2004

In the Works

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UP IN THE AIR: Kenneth Oppel has signed with HarperCollins Canada for his next children’s novel, a fantasy adventure called Airborn, set aboard giant airships in an imagined past. The book is slated for publication ... Read More »

April 2, 2004

In the Works

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PAYING THE PYPER: Andrew Pyper’s third novel, The Wildfire Season, set in the Yukon during a series of forest fires, has been sold to Iris Tupholme of HarperCollins Canada. In the U.K., Pyper has moved ... Read More »

April 2, 2004

In the Works

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FATHER AND SON: Diane Martin of Knopf Canada has acquired Rabindranath Maharaj’s third novel, A Perfect Pledge, for publication in fall 2005. Set in a small Trinidadian village, the novel centres on the relationship between ... Read More »

April 2, 2004

In the Works

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REVELATIONS: A first novel by 27-year-old Toronto writer Robert McGill has been bought by Ellen Seligman of McClelland & Stewart. The Mysteries is set in a small Ontario town, where the discovery of a missing ... Read More »

April 2, 2004

In the Works

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IN PRAISE OF MODERN TIMES: Elisabeth Harvor has sold her new novel, All Times Have Been Modern, about a relationship between a young man and an older woman, to Susan Folkins at Penguin Canada, for ... Read More »

April 2, 2004