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PROFILE Uncanny valley

How Christy Ann Conlin found an eerie muse in Nova Scotia’s rural Annapolis Valley

NEWS Pictures and words

Kobo CEO Michael Tamblyn on knowing your customers – even when you can’t predict what’s coming next

AGONY EDITOR Click and go

Author websites are handy promotional tools, but don’t get too carried away

BOOKSELLING The Curiosity factor

How readers helped build a local literary community and thriving fall festival in small-town Ontario

BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Greystone’s dream team

Publisher Rob Sanders launched the new Greystone Kids imprint after connecting with the right people at the right time

It’s a wild ride

When she became a blockbuster YA novelist with The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline was courted by the major players in Canadian publishing. Her one request: push me harder

2019 Fall Preview

150+ new titles in fiction, non-fiction, and books for children and young adults

Picture books

In his first picture book as author and illustrator

MEMOIR Street life

Jesse Thistle honestly and forthrightly confronts his own lived experience and a system that betrays lost souls searching for a place to call home

FICTION Rabbit season

In her sophomore novel, Mona Award delves into areas of female rage and desire

POETRY Here and now

The pull of home, cynical humour, and metaphoric craft characterize a trio of new collections

MEMOIR Organizing principles

New memoirs by two noted political figures relate different approaches to their subject matter

EDITOR’S CHOICE The wanderer

Biographer Ian Cutler provides a glimpse into the peripatetic life of itinerant writer, artist, and musician Jim Christy

GRAPHIC NOVEL Happily ever afters

A new queer comics collection offers a joyful tone

NON-FICTION But why?

New titles aim to answer kids’ general science questions and offer lessons on animal and human behaviour, respectively

On the line

Depicting the 2011 Tohoku tsunami and the story of a phone booth that helped survivors deal with their grief fell to first-time picture-book illustrator Rachel Wada