Success Stories

The Canadian Science Writer’s Association honoured Dominique Forget’s Perdre le Nord ?, published by Les Éditions du Boréal, with the prestigious Science and Society Book Award. The awards were held on May 24th, 2008 
on the grounds of the S.S. Klondike in Whitehorse, Yukon.

Boréal

Not one, but two awards for Arsenal Pulp Press at the Independent Publisher Awards in the US! First Person Queer, edited by Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel, won the Gold Award in the category of Gay/Lesbian. Comfort Food for Breakups by Marusya Bociurkiw, took the Silver Award in the category of Autobiography/Memoir. The prizes were presented at BookExpo America in Los Angeles on May 30.

Arsenal Pulp Press

Lingo Media is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Speak2Me Inc., has entered into an agreement to deploy its online English language learning service on CERNET (China Education and Research NETwork), China’s only nationwide Internet Service Provider.

This means Speak2Me’s breakthrough conversational English language learning program is set to be available nationwide to China’s 24 million university and college students.

Lingo Media

The Eco-Diary of Kiran Singer, by Sue Ann Alderson, from Tradewind Books, a book about the restoration of the Camosun Bog in Vancouver, is among the recipients of the ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book Awards.

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals recognizes books based on their exemplary handling of subject matter pertaining to animals and the environment. The 2007 ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book Awards will be presented at the American Library Association’s annual conference in Anaheim, California in June 2008.

Tradewind Books

Arsenal Pulp Press is pleased to announce that seven of its recent titles have been named finalists for the 9th annual ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, presented annually by ForeWord magazine in the US: 

First Person Queer: Who We Are (So Far) edited by Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel is a finalist in Anthologies; Comfort Food For Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl by Marusya Bociurkiw is a finalist in Autobiography/Memoir; Eat, Drink & Be Vegan by Dreena Burton as well as New World Provence by Alessandra and Jean-Francis Quaglia, and Where People Feast: An Indigenous People's Cookbook by Dolly and Annie Watts are finalists in Cooking; Soucouyant by David Chariandy is a finalist in Literary Fiction; and Fame Us: Celebrity Impersonators and the Cult(ure) of Fame by Brian Howell is a finalist in Photography.

After obtaining in October the Christine-Dumitriu-Van-Saanen 2007 Award,  Éditions David is pleased to announce that author Andrée Christensen has been selected as a winner of Le Droit 2007 award in the Fiction category for her book Depuis toujours, j'entendais la mer. This first novel of Andrée Christensen is also finalist for two other literary awards.

The Eco-Diary of Kiran Singer has been selected as a winner of the 2007 ASPCA® Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award in the Young Adult category.

The winning books were selected for their outstanding ability to teach young readers a new way to care for the animals and natural resources that we all share.

The ASPCA® Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award will be presented to Sue Ann Alderson at an award ceremony and cocktail reception during the 2008 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Anaheim, C.A. on Monday, June 30, 2008.

Following the success of its first Toronto launch, where close to 150 people attended and just as many books were sold, Western Canadian publishing company Rocky Mountain Books (Calgary, AB) is set to unleash a pack of contemporary explorer’s upon New York City. On March 14, at McNally Robinson Soho, approximately 20 contributors to Rocky Mountain Books international travel anthology Adventurous Dreams, Adventurous Lives will join the anthology’s creator, Jason Schoonover (Saskatoon, SK), in a group signing and reading. This is surely to be one of the largest author signings hosted at McNally Robinson Soho thus far!

Bow Grip by Ivan E. Coyote was named an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book at the ALA's Midwinter Conference in Philadelphia recently. The awards are presented by the ALA's GLBT Round Table.

Bow Grip also won the ReLit Award for Best Novel in 2007.

Simply Read Books is thrilled to announce that When You Were Small, written by Sara O’Leary and illustrated by Julie Morstad, won the 2007 Canadian Children’s Book Centre Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, worth $10,000.

This major award honours excellence in the illustrated picture book format for children ages 3 to 6.

Simply Read Books