Abebooks to launch new title sales

Abebooks, the world’s largest online marketplace for used, rare, and out-of-print books, has quietly started allowing publishers to sell new titles directly to consumers on its four international sites.“We’re just starting to really develop this ... Read More »

March 25, 2004

Top of the class

By Q&Q Staff

STEPHANIE BOLSTERGraduated: 1994Books: Pavilion (M&S, 2002), Two Bowls of Milk (McClelland & Stewart, 1999), White Stone: The Alice Poems (Signal/Véhicule, 1998)Accolades: Governor General’s Award for The Alice PoemsWhat’s next: Bolster is writing a new book ... Read More »

March 25, 2004

UBC students still hope for book deals

By Q&Q Staff

Vancouver novelist Lee Henderson is justifiably proud of his first collection of short stories, The Broken Record Technique, and the award that it won from the Writers’ Union of Canada in 2002. But the lofty ... Read More »

March 25, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Survival instinct

By Q&Q Staff

At BookExpo Canada last June, Scott McIntyre, Patsy Aldana, and Rob Sanders climbed the small stage on the trade show floor to receive, for the first time in the company’s history, the Canadian Booksellers Association ... Read More »

March 25, 2004

A voice from the fringe

By Q&Q Staff

Canadian book publishers – that is, those who publish Canadian writers with Canadian dollars – are often characterized as fearless, foolish, or a little (or a lot) of both. Whatever the nature of the beast, ... Read More »

March 25, 2004

Spirit of the west

By Q&Q Staff

The last time Q&Q published a special report about British Columbia, in August 1994, Duthie Books had several locations, online retailing was in its infancy, and the merger that created Chapters from Coles and Smithbooks ... Read More »

March 25, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

In the Works

By Q&Q Staff

A NEW NEW FACE: Agent Dean Cooke has sold Canadian rights to the first two novels by Steven Hayward to Louise Dennys and Diane Martin of Knopf Canada. Hayward’s first novel, Lucio Burke, a lightly ... Read More »

March 25, 2004

Clemence’s Saskatchewan

By Q&Q Staff

A familiar figure in Prairie books media will become a second-time author this month, as Verne Clemence publishes Saskatchewan’s Own: People Who Made a Difference with Fifth House.Clemence, a longtime reviewer for the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, ... Read More »

March 25, 2004

Audrey the objecting illustrator

By Q&Q Staff

Walter the farting dog has blown past a lot of trouble, but can he survive a possible change in image?California illustrator Audrey Colman has provided the art for the first three books in the series ... Read More »

March 25, 2004