“Your lip print can reveal all,” the Harlequin ad informed us, promising a romantic analysis of anyone willing to press lips to paper. For the bargain-basement price of $2.25 – and the offer of a ... Read More »
March 23, 2004
In fiction, facts in themselves are clay without breath; it’s the implied connections between fact and character that create meaning. Often I will carry arcana for years inside my imagination (how animals predict earthquakes, for ... Read More »
March 23, 2004
After sweeping women off their feet for years with romance fiction, Harlequin plans to bring readers down to earth with their new non-fiction line launched earlier this year.Although the first title in the Harlequin Ultimate ... Read More »
March 23, 2004
New strategic partnerships, a new consumer line, and the potential of multimedia have revitalized ITP Nelson, a company with a reputation as a profitable, albeit conservative, textbook publishing firm. The makeover is typical of the ... Read More »
March 23, 2004
Doug Whiteway likes to call his first novel “the doorstop.” It was long and dark and set in Manitoba. He tried to find a publisher on his own – the manuscript is now propping up ... Read More »
March 23, 2004
U.S. universities are turning to the world’s biggest blackboard – the Internet – to teach. And because their counterparts on this side of the border have been slow to offer courses in cyberspace, some American ... Read More »
March 23, 2004
Discussions were minimal and squabbles even fewer at this year’s annual general meeting of The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC), held in Winnipeg. Topping the agenda were issues of membership, but the thorniest question of ... Read More »
March 23, 2004
The problem with most forms of advertising – from the advertiser’s point of view – is that there’s no way of knowing for certain whether your money’s been well spent.But as several publishers using the ... Read More »
March 23, 2004
Breaking ranks with a longstanding industry tradition, McClelland and Stewart has announced that it’s leveled the playing field for all retail customers by offering a 45% discount to everyone, regardless of size of order, says ... Read More »
March 23, 2004
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