Quill and Quire

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Timothy Findley will have more than one publisher cheering him on when he embarks on a six-week tour to promote his 10th novel, Pilgrim, this fall. In an unprecedented move, HarperCollins Canada has teamed up ... Read More »

March 21, 2004

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Anything that can be digitized and downloaded from the Web will be, says futurist Frank Feather. And books are near the top of the list. So what does he foresee for the future of book publishing? “E-book ... Read More »

March 21, 2004

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Tour operators and event organizers have had their crack at tapping – relatively unsuccessfully – into new-millennium fever. Now book publishers are taking their turn. At least two Canadian companies are developing titles linked to ... Read More »

March 21, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

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Diane Baker Mason earned rave reviews last fall for her debut novel – but she happily admits that her second won’t be nearly as literary. Mason’s next project, to be released in March, is a ... Read More »

March 21, 2004

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The publication of Robert Finley’s The Accidental Indies, a lyrical, near mystical account of Columbus’s first voyage to the New World, marks a new step in literary publishing for McGill-Queen’s University Press. But the publisher ... Read More »

March 21, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

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Pat Kennedy, a senior editor at McClelland & Stewart, thought she’d be working on only one Joan Bodger title when she began editing the autobiography of the Toronto storyteller, writer, and Gestalt therapist. But she ... Read More »

March 21, 2004

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Key Porter plans to bolster its profile on the fiction front this year with the launch of a new line of trade paperback editions of titles resurrected from the Lester & Orpen Dennys international fiction ... Read More »

March 21, 2004