Erin Winzer
Reviews from Outside the Review Pages
Although most of our reviews can be found online or in the book review pages, every so often different types/formats of reviews come in such as the handwritten fan review, the email from a descendant of a historical figure featured in one of our books. I would like to share three such reviews with you.
Some [...]
Everywhere a Book
Not to sound cliche but I love books. I know, I know, not exactly shocking considering what I do for a living! But not only do I promote books all day but I’m also part of two book clubs. And, like most bibliophiles, stacks of books awaiting to be read fill my apartment. Not only [...]
A Nice Gesture
It’s so nice having our blog back up and running and it feels like an eternity since I lasted posted something. While our blog was out of commission I thought of at least a half dozen subjects I wanted to blog on, which I will someday soon. In the meantime I would like to share [...]
Life in a Vacuum
Sometimes we exist in a vacuum. By that I mean that often we have books that we get very excited about, for instance the upcoming Something Remains and Pilgrim in the Palace of Words, but despite our sales projections and how hard we work on the publicity campaign the public’s reaction to said books are [...]
A Silver Birch Award for The Third Eye
Yesterday, I found myself outside amongst screaming fans numbering in the thousands … was I playing hooky from work and attending an outdoors concert? Nope, rather I was at the Festival of Trees, the culmination of the Forest of Reading Program, at the Habourfront Centre in Toronto, where Dundurn’s very own Mahtab Narsimhan won the Silver Birch [...]
Brown Paper Packages Tied Up With Strings
“Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favourite things.”
The box cuter slits the packing tape open and the generic brown cardboard box springs open and releases bright coloured confetti and streamers. Ok  maybe there wasn’t confetti and streamers when I opened the [...]
An Ellis Nomination for Maureen Jennings!
Like many people who now work for a publishing company one of my first jobs in the field was working at a bookstore. In my case it was the independent mystery bookstore Prime Crime Books in Ottawa. With its cozy living room feel, Sam – Prime Crime’s skeleton mascot – in the front window, the [...]
