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.

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Announcing the 2008 Q&Q salary survey

Quill & Quire is now collecting responses for our 2008 salary survey. If you work in the publishing or distribution sector, we want to know about your work experience and educational background, your job satisfaction, your salaries, your benefits, and your outlook on the future of the business.

The survey is completely anonymous and should take only 10 minutes or so to fill out. The results will be published in an upcoming issue of Q&Q. (Our 2005 workplace survey story can be found here.)

Click here for our salary survey page.

Q&Q‘s new news editor

Attention readers: effective immediately, Q&Q welcomes Tabassum Siddiqui as news editor. Tab has degrees in journalism from Ryerson University and political science from the University of Toronto. She’s worked at the Toronto Star, eye weekly, and most recently at the magazine Muslim Girl. She can be reached by e-mail here.

In the January/February issue of Q&Q

The latest issue of Quill & Quire hits the streets this week. Our cover star is picture book author/ illustrator Melanie Watt, and the Children’s and Educational Special Report also includes profiles of Cary Fagan and sister team Jane Drake and Ann Love, as well as a look at the Golden Compass controversy and at the promised $120-million school library funding boost in Ontario.

Also found in January/February are the Spring Previews, spotlighting the season’s hottest upcoming books, a look at the pricing crisis, a review of Budge Wilson’s Anne of Green Gables prequel, and more. The full table of contents is after the jump.

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The December issue of Q&Q: Books of the Year

The special Books of the Year issue of Quill & Quire is now en route to stores and mailboxes. It contains the magazine’s annual selection of the titles that mattered the most over the past 12 months – 10 adult and five children’s. Among the authors who made the cut are cover stars Sean Dixon, Kenneth Oppel, and Marina Nemat – to see the rest, you’ll have to wait for the issue.

Also in December’s pages are a panel discussion on Margaret Atwood’s CanLit classic Survival, with Noah Richler, Lynn Coady, and Philip Marchand; a report on the Christian publishing and bookselling market; a look at new publisher Kunati Books; an essay by Leilah Nadir on writing about Iraq; and more. The full table of contents is after the jump.

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Inside the November Q&Q

The November 2007 issue of Quill & Quire is now in stores coast to coast. Inside is a profile of mystery novelist Louise Penny, complemented by closeups of 10 other Canadian mystery writers. Other features include a survey of literary festivals across the country and a report on the pros and cons of freelance vs. in-house publicity. In the Scholarly and College Publishing Special Report, we ask whether scholarly presses should embrace the Open Access movement (i.e., give books away free online) and we also investigate how little gadgets called “classroom clickers” are transforming the college textbook market. All this plus more than 40 reviews, including looks at new titles by D.R. MacDonald, Christie Blatchford, Frances Itani, Kit Pearson, Deborah Ellis and Eric Walters, Stephen Henighan, and more. The full table of contents is after the jump.

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New in the print Q&Q

Coming soon to a newsstand or mailbox near you is the October 2007 issue of Quill & Quire. Our cover story is a profile of Cape Breton writer D.R. MacDonald. The issue also looks at the remainders market (and some publishers’ concerns about it); the battle over online supremacy in Canada; how BookNet sales stats are changing the business; and how the International Festival of Authors is coping with change. Also look for the fall children’s announcements, listing biblio data for all fall kids’ books, and reviews of close to 50 new books, including ones by M.G. Vassanji, David Adams Richards, David Gilmour, Anna Porter, Tim Bowling, Rona Maynard, Naomi Klein, Christopher Paul Curtis, Sean Dixon, Dave Bidini, and more. The full table of contents is after the jump.

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Watch this space: Q&Q on Klein

You may have heard that Naomi Klein has a new book out this week, The Shock Doctrine. Watch the reviews section of the Q&Q website tomorrow for contributor Dan Rowe’s review of the book. The review will be posted early on Saturday, Sept. 8.

In the September Q&Q

Step right up, folks, the September 2007 issue of Quill & Quire is out now. It features a cover profile of author Elizabeth Hay, whose new novel is set in a Yellowknife CBC station in the 1970s; a look at how publishers are marketing books on Facebook and other social networking sites; a closeup look at the buyers for the country’s biggest non-traditional book retailers; the Fall Announcements, listing close to 1,000 fall adult titles; and reviews of more than 50 new books, including ones by Douglas Coupland, Susan Juby, Will Ferguson, Deborah Ellis, Michael Winter, Deirdre Baker, Gail Anderson-Dargatz, David Davidar, Richard Scrimger, and more. The full table of contents can be seen after the jump.

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Attention agents and editors: we want your deals!

Just a reminder to Canadian agents and editors to send us your deals for our weekly update on Q&Q Omni. We’re interested in books acquired for upcoming Canadian publication as well as in sales of foreign or subsidiary rights. Our deals update is put together on Wednesdays, so anything received by the end of the day on Tuesday will be considered. You can e-mail information directly here, and submission criteria here.