Josh Cook peels back the curtain on independent bookselling in his essay collection The Art of Libromancy
Cook acknowledges that some of his ideas may not be shared by others in the industry, or even others in the same store at which he is employed.
Annick Press to extend its mentorship program for marginalized writers
The deadline for submissions to this round of the program is September 29.
Climate change and political unrest at the end of the world in novels by Tomas Hachard and Michelle Min Sterling
City in Flames and Camp Zero address societal discord via imaginative scenarios that only slightly exaggerated from the evening news.
Craig DiLouie re-imagines the haunted house story for the reality TV era
DiLouie is clearly a fan of both haunted house stories and found footage movies.
Canadian writer Shashi Bhat on the jury for the 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Bhat's new collection is out from M&S in spring 2024.
High rise havoc and haunted houses: Andrew F. Sullivan and Nick Cutter deliver the horror
The Marigold is a quintessential urban horror tale; The Handyman Method relocates the terror to the suburbs.
AI enlisted to help one Iowa school district determine which books to censor; Canadian publishers caught in Texas school labelling push
Some Canadian children's publishers have been approached about labelling their books.
ACP issues statement in support of publishers, booksellers, and librarians opposing Texas book rating law
The ACP declares that it "stands in solidarity with the American writing, publishing, and bookselling communities."
“That crooked Métis fiddle style”: Michelle Porter discusses the family history and cultural reclamation that went into the creation of her first novel, A Grandmother Begins the Story
The interconnections between the various voices is essential to Porter's approach in the novel.
Lisa Alward’s debut short fiction collection is a quietly potent cocktail
The stories display a surface placidity that belies their deeper structure.