Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

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HEAD CASE: Catherine Bush has sold her third novel, Claire’s Head, to Ellen Seligman at McClelland & Stewart. Slated for fall 2004 release, the novel follows a woman in search of her missing sister, both ... Read More »

April 2, 2004

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HORSE LATITUDES: Marq de Villiers has sold three titles to Douglas Gibson of McClelland & Stewart. The deal includes the new titles Island of Wild Horses and Wind – to be published in spring 2004 ... Read More »

April 2, 2004

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Vancouver, a city many in the publishing industry have considered ill-served by the media, has a new medium for book reviews. The Vancouver Sun, one of the city’s two dailies, has added an eight-page pull-out ... Read More »

April 2, 2004

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Government cutbacks to publishers are being blamed in part for a reduction by half in the size of the Canadian collective stand at the Bologna children’s book fair in April. Just 12 publishers have taken ... Read More »

April 2, 2004

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Jack Stoddart, president of Stoddart Publishing and General Distribution Services, has taken a minority position in Key Porter Books, further cementing his new relationship with the company. Key Porter announced earlier this year that, effective ... Read More »

April 2, 2004

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Margaret Laurence’s A Tree for Poverty (ECW Press), English translations of Gabonese song lyrics, and a Canadian Museum of Civilization exhibition catalogue are among the items excerpted by the National Library of Canada for a ... Read More »

April 2, 2004

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The new Libraries Co-operation Act and the Public Libraries Act 1996 – a revision of an old bill – will soon be law in Saskatchewan. Provincial librarian Maureen Woods calls them “the best thing to ... Read More »

April 2, 2004

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McClelland &Stewart is adding to its Canadian roster with the acquisition of Reed Books Canada. In a deal not yet announced at Q&Q’s press time, M&S will take over Reed Canada’s indigenous publishing program and ... Read More »

April 2, 2004

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Spring being award time in the literary world, a number of honours have been announced recently, including the winner of the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award: Keath Fraser, for his novel Popular Anatomy; and ... Read More »

April 2, 2004

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Fundraising continues to top the administrative agenda of Ontario libraries and two of them – the Metro Toronto Reference Library and Kingston Public Library – are trying to preserve service by making unusual appeals for ... Read More »

April 2, 2004