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Celebrating thirty-five years on the Main Street
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The Porcupette’s Quick-and-Dirty Guide to Writing Book Descriptions
For the past few weeks I’ve been voraciously reading the manuscripts that make up our Fall 2018 list. (Spoiler alert: they’re great!) While I digest these fascinating new titles, I diligently jot down themes, images, and particularly well-written sentences in … Continue reading
Editing as Art Form: Musings of a Fledgling Artist
It is finally February, so we here at the Porcupine’s Quill are officially knee deep in our Spring 2017 list. We’ve pretty much wrapped up the heavy editorial lifting, so to speak, and we’ve started to move on to the … Continue reading
Posted in Letters from the Porcupette (the Intern's Blog)
Tagged editing, musings, publishing
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Touring the PQL Shop: Welcome Friends!
A couple of weeks ago, I shared with you all my shameful secret: the fact that, until the end of July, I still hadn’t made it up to Erin to visit the shop. Yes, I know. Terrible. But now that … Continue reading
Confessions of a Wandering Porcupette, or, What I learned as a BEA First-Timer
This past week, the book business met en masse at the annual conference of all things bookish, BookExpo America. Billed as the “#1 book and author event for the book industry” this year’s BEA was held at Chicago’s McCormick Center. … Continue reading
Posted in Letters from the Porcupette (the Intern's Blog)
Tagged BEA, BookExpo, business, publishing, tips
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PQ Weekly Roundup: 1 Jan 2016
Every Friday, the PQ Weekly Roundup collects the most shared links in our social media network—bookish articles, reviews, quizzes, recommendations and more—in convenient digest form. This falls in the category of slightly passé (but still awesome): Hilarious editor’s notes … Continue reading
Posted in Letters from the Porcupette (the Intern's Blog)
Tagged poetry, PQ Weekly, publishing, quiz
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PQ Weekly Roundup: 24 Jul 15
Every Friday, the PQ Weekly Roundup collects the most shared links in our social media network—bookish articles, reviews, quizzes, recommendations and more—in convenient digest form. Hard work, low pay, fickle bosses … it’s a hard life for a writer. … Continue reading
The Porcupine's Quill would like to acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. The financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund (CBF) is also gratefully acknowledged.