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How do literary agents deal with TIFF mayhem?

For 10 days, the Toronto International Film Festival turns Canada’s largest city into the epicentre of the movie world. Hundreds of films grace the metropolis’s big screens, a who’s who of filmmakers flood the hotels ... Read More »

September 11, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture

IFOA’s International Visitors Programme: the schmooze factor

By Cheri Hanson

Less than 24 hours into a September business trip to New York City, three people had already asked Iris Tupholme the same question: how could they land an invitation to the International Visitors (IV) Programme? ... Read More »

October 18, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Deals, Events

Random House Television launched

By Katie Gowrie

Random House and FremantleMedia, two companies owned by the media corporation Bertelsmann AG, have partnered to launch Random House Television “ a new project that will develop television content from Random House books. Galleycat quotes ... Read More »

July 26, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

D&M’s Trena White lands fellowships at Frankfurt, IFOA

By Stuart Woods

Earlier this week, Q&Q reported that Trena White, publisher at D&M Publishers, has been named the inaugural Canadian editorial fellow for the I.V. Programme, the annual networking event that runs alongside Toronto's International Festival of ... Read More »

July 5, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Events

Shit Girls Say scores book deal with Harlequin

By Sue Carter

Following in the footsteps of Justin Halpern's Shit My Dad Says, the popular Twitter feed and YouTube series Shit Girls Say is the latest Internet meme to be turned into a book. Created by Toronto ... Read More »

April 18, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

HarperStudio shuttered after only two years

By Steven W. Beattie

When Bob Miller launched the HarperStudio imprint two years ago, it seemed like a perfect moment to take a chance on an innovative publishing model. The imprint would publish two books per month and offer ... Read More »

April 5, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Should literary agents be afraid of Amazon?

By Stuart Woods

While Amazon is keeping quiet about the meetings it held last week with top U.S. agents, several commentators have begun to speculate about their significance. Crain's reports that the talks were "freewheeling, frank, and contentious," ... Read More »

November 12, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Self Publishing 2.0

By Alison Potstra

Who needs agents or publishers to market your novel when you can do it all yourself? Canadian author and book designer Andrew Smith, whose previous works have been published by Ten Speed Press and McClelland ... Read More »

October 6, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news

London Book Fair post-mortem

By Eric Emin Wood

As reported in OMNI on Tuesday, most of the Canadian agents attending this week's London Book Fair were anticipating lowered attendance. However, most were going and reported full schedules. It is hardly surprising, then, that ... Read More »

April 23, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

NY publishers’ descent from the high life

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

In the New York Times, Motoko Rich looks at the dying glitz and glam of the publishing world, which, according to Rich, once "came with a milieu that mixed cultural swagger with pure Manhattan high ... Read More »

January 6, 2009 | Filed under: Industry news

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