Q&Q’s CanLit 30 issue
The March issue of Quill & Quire is now in stores and in subscribers’ hands. Our cover story: The CanLit 30, Q&Q’s list of 30 people in the book industry who most influence what gets published, bought or read. Also up are looks at Mary Swan, duelling Mordecai Richler bios, the mystery of Inger Wolfe, and more. Plus: a small publisher’s first-person account of what Canada Reads meant to his company, the Spring Announcements (listing biblio info for 900 new titles), and reviews of 40 new titles by André Alexis, Jack Todd, Carrie Mac, Pamela Porter, Erna Paris, and more. The full table of contents is after the jump.
In the March 2008 issue of Q&Q:
The CanLit 30
The most influential, innovative, and just plain powerful people in Canadian publishing.
In search of Inger Wolfe
Will M&S be able to keep the author’s identity under wraps?
Versions of Mordecai
Multiple upcoming Richler bios will vie for readers. Which will have the edge?
Spring Announcements
The complete listings of the season’s Canadian titles – 900 in all, across 40 categories.
FRONTMATTER
- Mary Swan’s Southern Ontario gothic
- Finest worksongs: the best day jobs for authors
- When pigs fly (twice): D&M bets on one-of-a-kind cookbook
- Cover to Cover: Face to face
- Snapshot: Selina Rajani of Self-Counsel Press
- Deals Corner: Edeet Ravel, Daniel Levitin, and more
- Local Buzz: Scenic Adventures in the Yukon Territories
NEWS AND FEATURES
- Guest opinion: Canada Reads, by the numbers
- Highlights from Q&Q Omni
REVIEWS
- The Occupied Garden by Kristen den Hartog and Tracy Kasaboski
- Asylum by André Alexis
Sugar: A Bittersweet History by Elizabeth Abbott- Cricket in a Fist by Naomi K. Lewis
- Plus more fiction, non-fiction, and poetry
BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
- Super Crocs & Monster Wings by Claire Eamer
- Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
- Plus more fiction, non-fiction, and picture books
BESTSELLERS
Presented by Q&Q and BookNet Canada
THE LAST WORD
Fighting words: Jane Warren on editing war stories
