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Sisterhood of Dune Vancouver Launch

by Dan
Events + Fiction + Science Fiction and Fantasy / January 09, 2012

Join author Brian Herbert at the launch of his new novel The Sisterhood of Dune — the latest book in the international bestselling Dune series — at 2pm on Sunday January 15th (THIS SUNDAY!!) at Chapters Metrotown in Burnaby. 

Brian Herbert, Sisterhood of Dune
January 15th at 2pm
Chapters Metrotown
Metropolis, Metrotown 4700 Kingsway
Burnaby, British Columbia
V5H 4M1
Tel: 604-431-0463
 

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The Inside Scoop on Spring 2012

by Dan
Design & Typography + Fiction + Graphica / December 05, 2011

For those of you who don't know, I'm usually based in Toronto. But last week, I was out west for the Raincoast Books spring 2012 sales conference. Sadly I didn't get to see much of Vancouver (the photo above was taken less than a block from the hotel!) or catch up with half the people I meant to, but I did get to hear about a lot of great new books and so I thought I would quickly share a FEW of my personal favourites...

The strangest book on the week was surely How To Build Android: The True Story of Philip K. Dick's Robotic Resurrection by David F. Dufty which is on the Henry Holt & Co list. Spoiler alert: THEY LOST THE ROBOT!

 

Henry Holt also have a new novel by Herta Mueller, winner of the Nobel Prize in 2009, called The Hunger Angel, and the latest from John Banville's alter-ego Benjamin Black, Vengeance.

Picador are publishing a collected edition of Edward St. Aubyn's Patrick Melrose trilogy in January — the first time they've all been properly available in the US & Canada I believe — to coincide with the release of his new book At Last (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux). Picador also have a collection of essays by Siri Hustvedt, Living, Thinking, Looking.

Although this season's long-awaited Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design will be hard to beat, there are several art and design titles that caught my eye. Princeton Architectural Press are publishing Woodcut, a book of beautiful prints by artist Bryan Nash Gill and Up on the Roof, a collection of photographs by Alex MacLean of New York's hidden rooftop spaces. PAPress are also publishing a paperback edition of Michael Bierut's must-read Seventy-Nine Short Essays on Design, and a paperback edition of the beautiful Typography Sketchbooks by Steven Heller and Lita Talarico.

Lawrence King are publishing a new book on the history of picture books, Children's Picturebooks: The Art of Visual Storytelling by Martin Salisbury and Morag Styles, and a new edition of The End of Print by David Carson. 100 Years of Fashion by Cally Blackman also looks stunning.  

On the comics side, Drawn & Quarterly are publishing Jerusalem: Chronicle from the Holy City, the latest travelogue from Guy Delisle who previous books include The Burma Chronicles, Pyongyang and Shenzhen, and a new edition of Chester Brown's controversial, scatological and long out-of-print comic Ed The Happy Clown.

I'm also looking forward to seeing more of Baby's in Black: Astrid Kirchherr, Stuart Sutcliffe, and The Beatles in Hamburg by Arne Bellstorf which is being published by First Second in April, and to getting my hands on Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown and All My Friends Are Still Dead by Avery Monsen and Jori John from Chronicle Books.

And lastly — because I am big nerd and recently finished reading his earlier book about the Dark Knight Batman Unmasked — I'm excited about Will Brooker's Hunting the Dark Knight: Twenty-First Century Batman, which is being published by I. B. Tauris in July.

Phew! More to come...

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Brandon Sanderson Signing Tomorrow!

by Dan
Fiction / November 11, 2011

Author Brandon Sanderson will be at the Metrotown Chapters in Burnaby this Saturday signing copies of his new book The Alloy of Law! 

Brandon, who teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University, is the bestselling author of Warbreaker, Elantris, and The Way of Kings, as well as 'The Mistborn Trilogy'—Mistborn, The Well of Ascension and The Hero of Ages. He is also completing the final books in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time® series—The Gathering Storm, Towers of Midnight and the forthcoming A Memory of Light—based on Jordan’s notes and material! 

The event starts at 2pm.

Brandon Sanderson Signing
Saturday, November 12th - 2:00 PM
Chapters Metrotown
Metropolis, Metrotown 4700 Kingsway
Burnaby, BC V5H 4M1
 

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Rebecca Dart at Lucky’s on Friday

by Dan
Events + Graphica + Kids / October 19, 2011

Local cartoonist Rebecca Dart will be signing copies of the wonderful Nursery Rhyme Comics anthology at Lucky's Comics in Vancouver on Friday evening! 

Nursery Rhyme Comics features 50 classic nursery rhymes illustrated and interpreted in comics form by 50 of today’s leading cartoonists and illustrators. Chock full of beautiful full-colour art and favourite characters (Jack and Jill! Old Mother Hubbard! The Owl and the Pussycat!), it's a great anthology for kids AND grown-ups!

Rebecca Dart 
Nursery Rhyme Comics Launch
October 21st, 7pm - 9pm
Lucky's Comics
3972 Main Street, Vancouver, BC

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Louise Penny: Westward Ho!

by Dan
Events + Fiction / September 22, 2011

A Trick of the Light, the latest Chief Inspector Gamache novel by Canadian author Louise Penny, is currently sitting pretty on the national bestseller lists and is garnering glowing reviews from the likes of the Globe and Mail and the New York Times.

Louise is currently on tour in Canada and has spent the last week in the Waterloo Region of Ontario as part of One Book, One Community.

This weekend, however, she will be heading west!

On Saturday evening you can catch her at Bolen Books in Victoria and then on Sunday afternoon she will be in conversation with Annemarie Tempelman-Kluit founder of yoyomama and reading from A Trick of the Light at the Chapters bookstore at Granville and Broadway in Vancouver. 

Next week, Louise will be in Winnipeg at the Grant Park McNally Robinson on Tuesday September 27th at 8pm. 

Then, to round off tour, Louise will be heading home to Quebec where she will be appearing at Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore on October 6th as part of their 'After Dark' reading series.  

Here are all the details:

Victoria: Saturday September 24th, 7:00 pm
Bolen Books in Hillside Centre
Telephone 250-595-4232

Vancouver: Sunday September 25th, 2:00 pm 
Chapters, 2505 Granville Street
Telephone: 604-731-7822

Winnipeg: Tuesday September 27th, 8:00pm
McNally Robinson, Grant Park in Prairie Ink Restaurant
Telephone: 204-475-0483

Montreal: Thursday October 6th
Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore
Telephone: 514-845-5811

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Louise Penny A Trick of the Light Tour Dates

by Dan
Events + Fiction / August 22, 2011

The latest Chief Inspector Gamache mystery A Trick of the Light is released next week, and author Louise Penny will be reading from the novel at bookstores across Canada in August and September. 

Here are the dates for your agenda:

Saturday August 27th 2011 / Knowlton 
Brome Lake Books at 2:00pm (ticketed)

Monday August 29th 2011 / Toronto  
Sleuth of Baker Street at 6:00pm

Sept 13th—14th / One Book, One Island / PEI 
Tues: Charlottetown PE Confederation Centre Public Library at 2:00pm 
Weds: Summerside PE Bibliothèque publique J-Henri-Blanchard at 2:00pm
Weds: Montague PE Montague Rotary Library at 7:00pm

Sunday September 18th, 2011 / Montreal, Quebec
Chapters Centre-ville at 2:00pm  

Sept 20th—22nd / One Book, One Community / Kitchener-Waterloo 
Tues:  Kitchener, Victoria Park Pavilion (time TBC)
Weds: New Hamburg, Waterloo Oxford District Secondary School (time TBC)
Weds: Waterloo, First United Church (time TBC)
Thurs: Cambridge, (details TBC)

Saturday September 24th, 2011 / Victoria 
Bolen Books at 7:00pm

Sunday September 25th, 2011 / Vancouver 
Chapters on Granville at 2:00pm 

Tuesday September 27th, 2011 / Winnipeg 
McNally Robinson Grant Park at 8:00pm

Thursday October 6th / Montreal
Paragraphe Books (Details TBC)

You can follow Louise on her blog and on Facebook for news and updates about her books and the tour.  

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Chevy Stevens Events This Weekend!

by Dan
Events + Fiction / July 19, 2011

Just a reminder that Chevy Stevens, author of New York Times bestseller Still Missing and Never Knowing, will be signing books in Nanaimo and Victoria this coming weekend. Chevy will also be signing at the Chapters at 2505 Granville Street, Vancouver next Monday.

The newly released Never Knowing was reviewed in The National Post at the weekend by Rachel Harry: 

Never Knowing is the second in a trilogy focused on the common theme of the therapist’s office where these terrifying discoveries are confessed. Each chapter is divided into therapy “sessions” at which our heroine meets with, it is assumed, the same therapist from Stevens’ debut novel Still Missing... If you love racing through a psychological thriller, or if you’re interested in writing within this genre, read both of these novels back to back and witness the development of a talented new storyteller.

And by Carolyn Cooke for Surrey Now last week:

Stevens has a knack for capturing difficult family dynamics while building a breathless, twisting plot that rushes to an unexpected but inevitable conclusion. 

Here are the details for those events:

Saturday July 23rd, 2pm
Chapters Nanaimo
6650 Mary Ellen
Nanaimo, BC

Sunday July 24th, 2pm
Chapters Victoria
1212 Douglas Street
Victoria, BC

Monday July 25th, 7pm
Chapters Vancouver
2505 Granville Street
Vancouver BC

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Chevy Stevens Events

by Dan
Events + Fiction + Vancouver / June 27, 2011

Chevy Stevens, the New York Times bestselling author of Still Missing, will signing copies of her new book Never Knowing at events in Nanaimo, Victoria and Vancouver in July: 

Saturday July 23rd, 2pm
Chapters Nanaimo
6650 Mary Ellen
Nanaimo, BC

Sunday July 24th, 2pm
Chapters Victoria
1212 Douglas Street
Victoria, BC

Monday July 25th, 7pm
Chapters Vancouver
2505 Granville Street
Vancouver BC
 

A complex and compelling psychological thriller, Never Knowing is available from bookstores on July 5th.

In the meantime, Still Missing is available in paperback. Listen to what booksellers and reviewers had to say about it: 

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More room ... to fill up with books!

by Siobhan
News + Vancouver / June 24, 2011

Raincoast has been abuzz in all departments this week, getting everything set up for our new distribution partner, Macmillan.

The warehouse is looking really good, especially with the addition of yet more shelving... And if you love books, you know that new bookshelves really are exciting!

Lots of new space ... soon to be filled up by all those great Macmillan books coming in!

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Job Posting: Sales Operations Manager

by Siobhan
News + Vancouver / June 13, 2011

Raincoast is hiring a Sales Operations Manager.

Job Posting: Sales Operations Manager
Reports to: EVP Sales and Marketing
Supervises: Sales Analyst, Inventory Coordinators

Major responsibilities
The sales operations manager ensures that the operational and sales departments are fully aligned in terms of key customer expectations and processes, acting as liaison between the sales team and the company’s operational departments.

This position also is responsible for inventory forecasting and analysis, including communication with client publishers and management.

Goals

• Ensure that operational departments, especially systems and warehouse, fully understand and implement the specific requirements of key customers as identified by senior management, with an eye to maximizing profitable sales.
• Work with the sales team to develop realistic title-level forecasts each season, and continue to monitor and adjust as necessary throughout each season.
• Communicate forecasts to key stakeholders, including client publishers and management, meeting varying deadlines
• Through forecasting and regular reviews of current stock holdings, help the inventory team to maximize turns while supporting the sales team in the achievement of annual sales goals.
• Work with sales analyst to develop new reports and streamline existing reports, both to support sales and to satisfy the needs of client publishers and management.

Skills and Experience
The successful candidate will be fluent in both written and spoken English and will hold a post secondary certificate or degree from a recognized public institution. Experience or study in areas such as business operations management, database applications, supply chain management, business processes and inventory forecasting would all be assets, as would relevant work experience.

Applicants should be proficient in the Microsoft suite of products and have extensive Microsoft Excel experience.

This position requires excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to build and maintain strong working relationships at all levels within the company and with external stakeholders.

Experience in book publishing or distribution would be a plus.

We regret that we can only acknowledge applications from candidates selected for interviews. No phones calls or agencies, please.

To apply, please email your resume to Paddy Laidley by June 24, 2011:
paddy [at] raincoast.com

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