The April 2007 issue of Quill & Quire will appear in stores and in subscribers’ mailboxes over the next week or so. It includes a profile of Toronto novelist Cordelia Strube, a Special Report on Book Design, the Kids’ Announcements (listing all Canadian children’s books to be published this spring), and more. Plus our feature on Simon & Schuster Canada‘s plans to boost their presence in the Canadian market.

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In the April 2007 issue of Q&Q

Inconvenient truths
Cordelia Strube’s black comedy confronts the anxieties of modern life – whether publishers like it or not

Thinking like publishers
They don’t release any books here, but Simon & Schuster is getting more Canadian all the time

Looking for better book covers
Plus: Up and coming designers, and more in the Special Report on Book Design

Children’s Spring Announcements
Your complete guide to more than 300 kids’ books for spring

Plus

FRONTMATTER

• One severed partnership, two books
• Catherine Kidd’s debut novel lost in gestation
• The reclusive Sky Gilbert
• Madison Press’s new niche
• Quill at large: Charles Taylor Prize pics and more
• Snapshot: Orca co-owner Andrew Wooldridge
• In the Works: Richard B. Wright, Rachel Manley, and more

NEWS

• Indie bookselling franchise gone, but name lives on
• Editing pictures: when old-school editorial practices meet new storytelling forms
• Highlights from Q&Q Omni

SPECIAL REPORT: BOOK DESIGN

• Closeup: up and coming designers
• The joys of DIY imagery
• Changing covers, changing times
• When good type goes bad

REVIEWS

• Effigy by Alissa York
• Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet by Joanne Proulx
• Brother Dumb by Sky Gilbert
• Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer
• Plus more fiction, non-fiction, and poetry

BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

• In My Backyard by Margriet Ruurs and Ron Broda
• The Thrilling Life of Pauline de Lammermoor and The Mysterious Adventures of Pauline Bovary by Edeet Ravel
• Plus more fiction, non-fiction, and picture books

BESTSELLERS

THE LAST WORD
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