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Bookmarks: Adiga’s agent, Small Beer for Obama, and more

Booker winner Aravind Adiga clarifies when and why he dumped his agent, and it wasn't about money. Phew! Small Beer Press, a small press in North Carolina Massachusetts, is donating 20% of this month's sales ... Read More »

October 28, 2008 | Filed under: Authors, Book links

Legendary U.K. agent Pat Kavanagh dies

By Steven W. Beattie

The Bookseller is reporting that Pat Kavanagh, the British agent and wife of novelist Julian Barnes, has died. Kavanagh represented some heavy hitters in the literary world, including Joanna Trollope, John Irving, and William Trevor ... Read More »

October 20, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

No happy ending for publishing?

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

New York magazine's feature by Boris Kachka about the current state of the book business lays things out like a fractured fairy tale, more Alice in Wonderland or Bluebeard than Cinderella, and rife with poisoned ... Read More »

September 16, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Danish publisher wants controversial U.S. novel

By Sara Forsyth

Earlier this month, Random House U.S. decided to pull Sherry Jones's novel The Jewel of Medina, for fear its content (about the child bride of the prophet Mohammed) would "incite acts of violence by a ... Read More »

August 26, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

A call to blog

By Scott MacDonald

Every author with even an ounce of self-promotional instinct seems to have a blog these days, but how many editors and publishers do? According to Booksquare blogger Kassia Kroszer, the whole publishing industry needs to ... Read More »

June 27, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Agents’ secrets

By Sara Forsyth

Open Book Toronto recently published a virtual tÃªte-Ã -tÃªte between two literary agents, Sam Hiyate, president of The Rights Factory, and Hilary McMahon, vice-president at Westwood Creative Artists. The article, "Artful Agenting," is an e-mail discussion ... Read More »

June 24, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Coveting thy neighbour’s sales

By Jacob Sheen

According to Ben Kaplan of the National Post, the Canadian publishing industry is crazed with envy, obsessively checking up on their rivals' deals and sales numbers: Resentment among authors has been around since the first ... Read More »

April 8, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Deals

U.K. steps up e-book production

By Scott MacDonald

While the Canadian publishing industry is taking a wait-and-see attitude toward e-books, the U.K. industry seems to be chomping at the bit to get on board. According to The Bookseller, two of the U.K.'s biggest ... Read More »

March 14, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

Fiction vs. non-, round 2

By Leigh Anne Williams

Not too long ago, author Ken McGoogan argued in The Globe and Mail that non-fiction books get short shrift in our culture, fiction soaking up the glam and all. Now, Globe columnist and novelist Russell ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Disgruntled writer offers literary agents a raise

By Stuart Woods

The Guardian's weekend edition features an opinion piece by writer and filmmaker Martin Wagner, who is obviously still stinging from the rejection letters he received from agents as a young novelist. The crux of the ... Read More »

September 25, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

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