Book2Book - Saturday 13 Nov 2010
There's a lot of outraged buzz in online book circles about whether Scotiabank Giller Prize juror Ali Smith broke jury protocol and engaged in a form of literary insider trading by arranging for her U.K. agent, Tracy Bohan, to sign winner Johanna Skibsrud before the longlist was even announced
Quillblog
ctv.ca
MobyLives
Footnote:
Douglas & McIntyre is publishing a trade paperback version of Scotia Giller Prize-winner The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud, which has been in short supply since it won the award last Tuesday.
Gaspereau Press, the novel's publisher, prints and binds its books in-house, a process that cannot keep up with demand for The Sentimentalists. The first printing was 800, which is sold out, and the second printing of 2,300 is spoken for. The Giller Prize, Canada's biggest award for fiction, usually boosts sales of the winner by 75,000 copies.
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