Retreat by Random House

  For our current Beyond the Lobby installment, we approached our two publicity interns, Kaley Stewart and Caitlin MacGorman. Both are close to completing their 12 week internship at Random House of Canada, so it was the perfect time to approach them about the important things they’re taking from this exciting opportunity. From book chatter [...]

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The other day, I was looking at a well-designed book cover and I thought: “That job would be so much fun.” Don’t get me wrong, I love working in Online Marketing, but ever since taking a book design course as part of my publishing program, a part of me loves to think I could work [...]

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  Craig Pyette, Senior Editor at Knopf Random House Canada takes us behind the scenes of the acquisition process for the book, The Lion Seeker, on sale today. An email arrives. It’s one of those times of year our editorial department is inundated with submissions. The message contains a debut novel called The Lion Seeker, [...]

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Anita Chong, McClelland & Stewart’s Associate Publisher for Emblem Editions shares a behind the scenes look at preparing for CBC’s annual Canada Reads competition. When the initial Canada Reads regional Top Ten Lists were first revealed last October, every publisher in Canada immediately scoured the lists, happily highlighting any of their titles that appeared. What [...]

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Every season we go into meetings where we learn about the books for next season. So last Fall, we were in our meeting room talking about the books that were coming this Spring. Usually, when a book is introduced, the editors describe it, and then give us some examples of books that are comparable. It [...]

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We’re surrounded by beautiful books all day long at the Random House Canada offices. But we’re also surrounded by quite a few people who display their personalities on their office wall and some amazing book-related paraphernalia. We thought we’d give you a look inside the Random House Canada offices and the cool things we found [...]

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It’s that time of the month again. Yes, you guessed it, our next installment of Beyond the Lobby is here. Okay, so maybe you didn’t guess it, you were probably way off but nonetheless, this month we’ve decided to focus on something that’s consuming many a book publisher in North America and possibly around the [...]

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Dear reader, Onto our next installment of the Beyond the Lobby series, where we uncover the deep, dark caverns of publishing; shed light on myths and reveal secrets only a few elite know. Okay, enough with the drama and suspense. We greatly enjoy answering your questions and we received a fabulous question from Allegra Young [...]

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One of our first posts in this Beyond the Lobby series was an article where we gave some advice about how to get an internship. Now that you’ve got a handle on that, we wanted to address how you can take your position as an intern, and turn in into a full-time, paid position. We [...]

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Many will tell you that reading is a solitary activity, but if you ask a book blogger, I bet you they’ll be able to convince you it’s anything but a secluded hobby. The impact of book bloggers and social media has changed the way publishers have interacted with their readers. We’re able to gain insight [...]

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