“...one of the most invigorating and unconventional writers of short fiction around.” Click here for Steven W. Beattie review of Mark Anthony Jarman’s latest collection:
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Ryan Uytdewilligen and Charlotte Cho's middle-grade chapter book is for kids who share its characters’ love of silliness. Its madcap plot offers endless swine-related humour. Click here for the full review: https://bit.ly/4d3fnns
Three Canadian authors on the Quill & Quire/Bookmanager Top 10 New Releases Bestsellers chart, and three more on the extended chart. Click here for the Top 15: https://bit.ly/4uczGVy
“Usually I do research and plan everything brick by brick, but The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts was an outpouring of a pure nightmarish feeling.” Click here for the full review: https://bit.ly/46IjQbf
Nova Scotia’s publishers hope public outcry will make government reverse funding cuts
A rally in support of arts, heritage, and culture is planned for Wednesday, March 3 at noon at the provincial legislature in Halifax.
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“That’s how it is living with Shame—it makes you feel as if you’re pretending to be someone you’re not,” writes Jowita Bydlowska. "Unshaming" at times tests the bounds of a reader’s comfort, but it feels like that’s precisely the point. Click here for the full review https://bit.ly/4rLLahq
Click here for an excerpt acclaimed nêhiyaw (Plains Cree) poet and writer Louise Bernice Halfe – Skydancer's wîhtamawik/Tell Them: On a Life of Inspiration https://bit.ly/3N5e64M
New on the Q&Q Job Board:
Editorial Assistant @ McClelland & Stewart
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Non-fiction, memoir and poetry are some of the genres in the Quill & Quire/Bookmanager Canadiana list. Click here for the full chart https://bit.ly/4cNBlKX
Growing up, Tara Gereaux knew her grandfather was Métis, but she was always told to tell people the family was French. In Wild People Quiet, she explores the factors that led him and many other Métis to keep their heritage hidden. Read the interview at https://bit.ly/4kYvox9
Nova Scotia austerity budget eliminates publishing fund.
In a press release from the AMPA reacting to the news, Nimbus Publishing manager Terrilee Bulger called the move “drastic and devastating.”
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Rachel Reid still dominates the Quill & Quire/Bookmanager Top 10 Canadian Fiction chart but theres also room for new novels by Tyler Hellard and Joss Richard. Full chart at https://bit.ly/4tNPein
A newly launched web platform offers independent Canadian bookstores in English Canada an opportunity to work together to reach for a greater market share. Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/4tYtlx8
Nicholas Oldland, Linda Bailey, Kass Reich, and Elise Gravel are featured in this week's Quill & Quire/Bookmanager Top Canadian Books for Young Readers. Click here for the full chart: https://bit.ly/468PZIJ
Toronto independent booksellers Hopeless Romantic Bookshop and Little Ghosts Books co-host a pop-up bookstore at Union Station. Click here for the full story: https://bit.ly/4rHEZKO
E.G. Alaraj's sophomore picture book was born out of the struggles she and her husband faced in connecting their children with his heritage language of Arabic. Click here for the full review https://bit.ly/4qv5dPq
New on the Q&Q Job Board:
• Marketing Coordinator @secondstory.bsky.social
• Sales Associate @orcabook.bsky.social
• Publicist (12 month contract) @harpercollinsca.bsky.social
• Publicity Intern @ HBG Canada
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Jennifer Chevalier leads the list of Canadian authors on the Quill & Quire/Bookmanager Bestsellers New Release chart. Click here for the Top 15: https://bit.ly/3LYUOxB
Independent bookstores across the country can’t keep copies of Heated Rivalry in stock. “As soon as we get them, they sell out. It’s a good problem to have.”
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Julie Flett, author and/or illustrator of more than 20 books, spoke with Q&Q about her process, what inspired We All Love, and what it means to be awarded the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature.
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New on the Q&Q Job Board:
• Publicity Intern @ HBG Canada
• Editorial & Production Assistant (Indigenous candidate required) - One Year Contract @ Inanna Publications and Education
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This week's Quill & Quire/Bookmanager Top 10 Canadian Books for Young People features Cherie Dimaline. Her novel "Marrow Thieves" has now been on the chart for over 400 weeks! Click here for the full chart: https://bit.ly/4k3k3v4
Q&Q presents the nonfiction titles we’re most excited about this spring. Click here for books from Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Crystal Gail Fraser and Sara Komarnisky, David Suzuki and more https://bit.ly/4qRpaBh
Quill & Quire's Spring Preview presents YA and nonfiction books from Delali Adjoa, Kim Spencer, Curtis Campbell and more. Click here for this and the rest of the Preview: https://bit.ly/4tdBU6T
New on the Q&Q Job Board:
• Publicist @dundurnpress.bsky.social
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Click here for an excerpt from Monique Gray Smith's new book Sharing the Light: Stories and Reflections https://bit.ly/49Az0kO
New on the Q&Q Job Board:
• Bartender @ Book Bar www.instagram.com/bookbarto
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Rachel Reid owns half of this week's Quill & Quire/Bookmanager Top 10 Canadian Fiction, but she's left room for Emily Austin's new novel at 8. For this, and this weeks Nonfiction chart, click here https://bit.ly/3M343N0
