The new year began on a high note for the book industry after the I Canada Council for the Arts announced in January how it planned to spend the first $25-million of its $125-million in ... Read More »
March 4, 2004
Mean-spirited commentsTo the editor:In view of the fact that I wrote Garth Turner on August 27, wishing him well with his acquisition of Lester Publishing, I am struck by his mean-spirited comments in the October ... Read More »
March 4, 2004
Perceptive readers may notice an unusual omission this month from Quill's Bestseller Survey: William Weintraub's City Unique: Montreal Days and Nights in the 1940s and ‘50s, a fixture on the Montreal Gazette's top five since ... Read More »
March 4, 2004
So the Governor General’s Literary Awards battled the glamour of the Giller with a bit of pomp and circumstance of its own. After 13 years of taking its awards show on the road, the GG’s ... Read More »
March 4, 2004
A longer version of this paper, entitled '"If they read Nancy Drew, so what?': Series book readers talk back, "was published by Library and Information Science Research.The most interesting contradiction about series books is that ... Read More »
March 4, 2004
Following is an excerpt from the keynote address given by Barbara Greenwood on October 18,1997 at Packaging Your Imagination, a day of workshops in Toronto sponsored by CANSCAIP, The Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators ... Read More »
March 4, 2004
SEVERAL NOTABLE events stand out this spring in the field of children's publishing. GG Award-winner Tim Wynne-Jones will tour the country with his eagerly awaited new YA novel. Acclaimed authors Shelley Tanaka and Priscilla Galloway ... Read More »
March 4, 2004
When stocking business titles on audio, look for abridged versions and well-known authors, recommends Graeme Coxon of Spoken Word Audiobooks in Toronto. The following titles are his picks for strong sellers:FORBES GREAT MINDS OF BUSINESS: ... Read More »
March 4, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
PLAGUES, VAMPIRES, war... when it comes to springtime fiction nothing, it seems, titillates the fair-weather reader more than calamity and abomination.Joining the usual line-up of blockbuster suspense novelists this season, authors of LITERARY FICTION are ... Read More »
March 4, 2004
FIRST- AND second-time novelists have always been the lifeblood of Canadian spring fiction, and this year is no exception. Knopf, M&S, HarperCollins, and Doubleday are all making significant commitments to new authors, and small Canadian ... Read More »
March 4, 2004
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