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Recently I returned from a 10-day book tour of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It was an amazing experience. Everywhere I went, there were huge line-ups of people waiting to buy my books. Fans presented ... Read More »

November 5, 2003 | Filed under: Book news

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Imagine approaching a publisher and saying you'd like to do a 240-page black-and-white children's book based on existential questions. The reaction might be less than encouraging. But Montreal author-illustrator Michèle Lemieux recently won the Ragazzi ... Read More »

November 5, 2003

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The potato race at the Northern Lights Academy in Rigolet, Labrador, wasn’t going according to plan. The school’s mainly Inuit students had each been given a potato to carry on a spoon while racing for ... Read More »

November 5, 2003

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“Who’s got the way to boost your computer? Whose operating system is king? Who’s got the strength of Microsoft know-how? Everyone knows it’s Windows.” That was just one of the variations of popular songs devised by ... Read More »

November 5, 2003

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A writer’s cri de coeurTo the editor:Once again Quill & Quire has managed to depress me. I am an unpublished writer, one of those annoying, wicked people who, if we are to believe a senior ... Read More »

November 5, 2003

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Writers know better than anyone how difficult it is to write. You toil for hours over a single scene. You write and you rewrite. After months – maybe years – you pack up your manuscript ... Read More »

November 5, 2003 | Filed under: Book news

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A little over a year ago, both publishers and booksellers began to face a sudden and unexpected surge of returns on a magnitude exceeding anything most of us had experienced in the past. In the ... Read More »

November 5, 2003

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Some of my friends, so-called, have started referring to me as “Dr. Love.” This is their idea of a joke, the equivalent of calling a tall person “Tiny,” or a tiny person “Stretch.” They won’t ... Read More »

November 5, 2003