Inside Bill's Bag
Netflix recently released the three-part Davis Guggenheim documentary Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates. In the first scene after...
The Only Way to be a Writer
Penguin Random House UK has published a digital booklet entitled “How To Get Published.” It is a guide to “navigating the publishing...
Ms. Amiel's Friends & Enemies
Longtime Maclean’s and Times of London columnist Barbara Amiel’s memoir Friends & Enemies will be released next month. I haven’t read the...
Break them Up
Before we get to our main topic, one of the things that surprised me about the book business when we launched Sutherland House is the...
My Interview with Santa
About a decade ago, in the midst of the financial crisis, I was editing Maclean’s magazine and looking for something to lift our spirits...
Best of the Best '20
Everyone’s publishing lists of their best books of the pandemic year. We’ve rounded up the roundups for your convenience, concentrating,...
All the Latest on Random Penguins
The kids at Penguin Random House Canada (PRHC) were shocked - shocked! - this week to learn they worked for a company determined to...
How Much of Life is Luck?
Never having played a hand of poker in her life, the psychologist and writer Maria Konnikova (above) decided to play the game...
Book Sales Go Nuts
A recent story in Publisher’s Weekly noted that sales of printed books were up 9.5% in the US for the week ending Oct 31, year over year....
Writing About an Ex
I remember speaking with Canadian author and journalist Peter C. Newman some decades ago about a woman who had written a book about her...
