In a world where stunts are a popular method to attention for and move products, it is unsurprising that one would be used to sell a book. Take yesterday: observers (including me) were trying to figure out if the Q&A disaster between Little, Brown & Co. and author, Gabriel Roth, was in fact a stunt…
Interview with Lindsay Cibos
Lindsay Cibos and her creative partner Jared Hodges are major up-and-comers in the manga world. In 2003 she won the Grand Prize in Tokyopop’s Rising Stars of Manga competition for Peach Fuzz. They published the work in a three volume set and then extended their talents to produce several instructional books based in manga and…
Game of Thrones: The Exhibition
The Toronto leg of the Game of Thrones: The Exhibition wrapped up on May 18, and I was lucky enough to get a look at the best of Westeros, tucked into a corner of the TIFF Bell Lightbox Theatre.
The Thursday Book Beat
Hello, Book Nerds! From now on, Thursdays will be all about book news. Anything that quakes in the book industry in the last week will be featured here, so grab onto your favourite, dog-eared book and enjoy the ride. Tolkein’s Beowulf Translation Finally Published J. R. R. Tolkein’s estate has teamed up with HarperCollins to publish his…
