by Sue Carter

Scholastic shifts marketing campaign online for Hunger Games prequel

Scholastic Canada found itself in a unique race of its own when the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns coincided with the publicity campaign for The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Suzanne Collins's much-anticipated prequel to ... Read More »

May 25, 2020

Michael Christie, Wayne Arthurson, Tom Ryan among Arthur Ellis Award winners

By Sue Carter

The winners for the 2020 Arthur Ellis Awards for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing were announced on the Canadian Crime Writers of Canada’s website and its various social-media channels. This year's awards gala was cancelled ... Read More »

May 22, 2020

Remembering S&S CEO Carolyn Reidy and her commitment to Canadian publishing

By Sue Carter

The day before Simon & Schuster president and CEO Carolyn Reidy died of a sudden heart attack on May 12, she spent an hour and a half on the phone with Kevin Hanson, president and ... Read More »

May 21, 2020

Hunter Street Books moves to store-within-a-store model

By Sue Carter

Hunter Street Books has closed its doors, but owner Michelle Berry has found a like-minded partner to keep books in the hands of her customers in Peterborough, Ontario. Starting June 1, Hunter Street, which will ... Read More »

May 21, 2020

Personnel change: Transatlantic Agency

By Sue Carter

Transatlantic Agency has promoted Evan Brown has been promoted to the role of associate agent. Having joined Transatlantic as records clerk in April 2019, Brown has been successfully assisting senior agent and international rights manager ... Read More »

May 20, 2020

Winnipeg artist Cliff Eyland remembered for his card-sized library paintings

By Sue Carter

Winnipeg-based artist, curator, and professor Cliff Eyland's paintings may be small – the size of a 3″ x 5″ library card, to be exact – but their effect is monumental. Eyland, who died on May ... Read More »

May 19, 2020

Daily Deals: multiple foreign deals for David Waltner-Toews’s pandemic primer, Julie Flett’s Birdsong

By Sue Carter

Black Inc. has acquired Australian/New Zealand English language rights to epidemiologist David Waltner-Toews's primer On Pandemics: Deadly Diseases from Bubonic Plague to Coronavirus. The deal was arranged by Greystone Books. Japanese rights have been acquired by Tsukiji Shokan ... Read More »

May 13, 2020

Workplace survey: the results

By Sue Carter

When Q&Q first conceived of its inaugural workplace survey, the world looked very different than it does today. Since we solicited responses to this questionnaire, the global pandemic of COVID-19 has taken a toll on ... Read More »

May 11, 2020

Curiosity House’s fresh idea partnering with organic-food company for box deliveries

By Sue Carter

Curiosity House Books was one of the first local businesses in the town of Creemore, Ontario, to shut down when the COVID-19 lockdown appeared imminent. At first, co-owner Rina Barone wasn't sure if the shop would ... Read More »

May 7, 2020

BookExpo and BookCon go virtual

By Sue Carter

BookExpo and BookCon are offering free online programming from May 26–31. The conventions for book fans and the publishing industry were cancelled April 14 amid COVID-19 lockdowns. From May 26–28, BookExpo Online 2020 will present ... Read More »

May 7, 2020

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