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Quill & Quire is a Canadian magazine about the book and publishing industry. The magazine was launched in 1935 and has an average circulation of 5,000 copies per issue, with a publisher-claimed readership of 25,000. Quill & Quire reviews books and magazines and provides a forum for discussion of trends in the publishing industry. The ...
After being hired at Quill & Quire as a staff writer in 1999, he rose through the positions of review editor and news editor to be named editor in chief in 2004. [1]During his tenure, Weiler wrote book reviews and articles for the country's three major newspapers: The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and the National Post.
[1] The Quill and Quire described the book as "compact, clear-sighted, and nervy. Chong's grasp of suburban tackiness is laugh-out-loud awesome, right down to the ubiquitous copies of Maclean's magazine on parental coffee tables and trick or treaters dressed as Orville Redenbacher."
The series debuted in the summer of 2005 with The Dying Hour, which climbed to #7 on Canada’s best seller list (Quill & Quire) and hit #1 among Walmart Canada’s best sellers. Sandra Brown, an acclaimed international best-selling author, said she loved The Dying Hour. “It starts scary and ends scary.”
Campbell spearheaded a substantial redesign of Quill & Quire's print publication in 2006, introducing full-colour photography throughout, custom typefaces and a new logo. He changed the publication's trim size for first time in 30 years, reducing it from a tabloid newspaper size (11" x 14") to that of a standard magazine.
The book was described by CBC journalist Jane van Koeverden as comprehensive, candid, and straightforward [1] Anne Thériault, writing in Quill & Quire praised the author's ability to clearly explain complex matters and described her writing as compassionate, thorough, and fascinating. [3]
Quill and Quire gave it a starred review calling it "a charming quirk", [11] and The Toronto Star described it as: "poems that crackle with lyric energy". [12] Micheline Maylor's anthology, Drifting Like a Metaphor, introduces Calgary poets of promise [13] who have the ability to make connections that work to pull together language, image, and ...
Twigg was born in 1952 in North Vancouver, British Columbia. [3] He began freelance writing in the 1970s, and helped found the B.C. Book Prize in 1985. In the 1980s and 1990s, he wrote columns and reviews for the Vancouver Sun, the Globe and Mail, Quill and Quire, and the Toronto Star, as well as publishing books on the literature of Vancouver, British Columbian, Belizean, and Cuban history ...