by Steven W. Beattie

Harlan Ellison won’t wait until the end of time to challenge Justin Timberlake movie

Andrew Niccol, the Australian writer-director who wrote the screenplays for such acclaimed science-fiction films as The Truman Show and Gattaca, is not justified in appropriating the plot of a Harlan Ellison story for his latest ... Read More »

September 19, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Wattpad pulls in $3.5 million in new investment

By Steven W. Beattie

Wattpad, the Toronto-based Internet company that allows readers and writers to connect and share their work online, has completed a new round of funding, including an investment from Union Square Ventures, the New York company ... Read More »

September 12, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Digital publishing and technology

Fall preview 2011: Canadian crime fiction, graphica, and poetry

By Steven W. Beattie

In the July/August issue, Q&Q looks ahead at the fall season's biggest books. CRIME FICTION Perennial bestseller Linwood Barclay returns with another spine-tingler, this one about a Connecticut contractor who gets caught up in a ... Read More »

September 1, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Preview

9/11 colouring book stirs controversy

By Steven W. Beattie

As the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 approaches, many publishers are putting out commemorative editions as a way of memorializing that terrible day. One such book is drawing more controversy ... Read More »

August 29, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Fall preview 2011: Canadian fiction

By Steven W. Beattie

In the July/August issue, Q&Q looks ahead at the fall season's biggest books. NOVELS One of the most anticipated releases of the fall season is surely the new novel from internationally acclaimed author Michael Ondaatje, ... Read More »

August 26, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Preview

Novelist Gil Courtemanche succumbs to cancer

By Steven W. Beattie

Gil Courtemanche, the journalist and novelist whose best-selling 2000 novel about the Rwandan genocide, A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali, was made into a movie in 2006, lost a two-year battle with cancer of ... Read More »

August 22, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

New theory suggests Soviet involvement in the death of Albert Camus

By Steven W. Beattie

It's a conspiracy theory worthy of Dan Brown, or perhaps early-career John le Carré. When the French Nobel laureate Albert Camus died in a car crash in 1960, everyone assumed it was an accident. Now, ... Read More »

August 8, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Public to vote on Giller longlist: UPDATED

By Steven W. Beattie

This year, the Scotiabank Giller Prize is moving from CTV, its official broadcast partner for the past five years, to CBC. In conjunction with the move, the CBC has announced a new Readers' Choice contest, ... Read More »

August 2, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Book sales down “dramatically” in Q1 of 2011

By Steven W. Beattie

The bad news for booksellers just seems to keep coming. Today, Publishers Weekly reports that Canadian book sales "dropped dramatically" in the first quarter of 2011 according to figures released by BookNet Canada. The market ... Read More »

July 25, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Governor General’s Award winner Gloria Sawai dies at 78

By Steven W. Beattie

Quillblog was saddened to learn of the death of Gloria Sawai last Wednesday. The Alberta writer, whose single book, the short-story collection A Song for Nettie Johnson, beat out Carol Shields' Unless and Wayne Johnston's ... Read More »

July 25, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

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