Toronto’s new book fair: As of press time for Q&Q’s December issue, it was too early to predict whether Inspire! Toronto International Book Fair – the first event of its kind in English Canada – would achieve its promise of attracting 50,000 people wanting to brush shoulders with (and buy books from) big-name authors such as Anne Rice, Jeff Kinney, Dav Pilkey, and Sylvia Day.

Update: Inaugural edition of Inspire! book fair a mixed bag

This story originally appeared in the December 2014 print edition