Category Archives: Roseway Publishing
Book Award Nomination Round-up
Wow! What a week it’s been around the Fernwood HQ. We’ve had three (!!!) of our books nominated for awards. First off, Gloria Wesley’s Chasing Freedom has been shortlisted for the Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature by the … Continue reading
Fernwood Staff and Authors team up in Spelling Bee
March 8 was the fundraiser for the annual Word on the Street festival in Halifax. Fernwood’s own Nancy Malek and Stacey Byrne teamed up with authors Richard Zurawski (Media Mediocrity) and Gloria Wesley (Chasing Freedom)Â squaring off against a multitude of … Continue reading
Happy New Year!
Happy 2012 everybody! Hopefully everyone has survived the holiday season. We figured we were way past due to update this blog and let everyone know we’re still here. Plus, we have some pretty exciting news: It’s our 20th anniversary! Needless … Continue reading
Drive-by Saviours wins Salty Ink’s Book Cover Design Award!
The results are in, and with an amazing 776 votes, Roseway’s Drive-by Saviours has won Salty Ink’s 2010 Judge-a-Book-by-Its-Cover Competition! Since we’re talking design here, we need to send a big huge congratulations to John Van Der Woude, who designed … Continue reading
A Legacy of Love – Speech by Marion Kerans
Marion Kerans, author of A Legacy of Love delivered this speech about Muriel Duckworth at a book launch in Ottawa on December 3, 2010. It’s a great speech that encapsulates Kerans’ thoughts on Muriel Duckworth and her motivations for writing … Continue reading
Vote for Drive-by Saviours in Salty Ink’s Book Cover Contest!
Geez, the Drive-by Saviours train just keeps on rolling! First, it made the top 40 list on CBC’s Canada Reads 2011 survey, and now Salty Ink has chosen Drive-by Saviours for their Judge-a-Book-by-its-Cover competition! Remember how we gushed over the … Continue reading
How The Cougar Came to be Called the Ghost Cat – Video
Check out this great video of Michael James Isaac talking about his inspiration for the children’s book How the Cougar Came to be Called the Ghost Cat and watch him read to a bunch of little kids. Just like the … Continue reading
4 Days Left to Vote for Drive-by Saviours in Canada Reads 2011!
That’s right folks. You have just four days to vote for Chris Benjamin’s Drive-by Saviours to make the top ten Canadian novels for 2011. Four days!! Voting involves clicking maybe two buttons, and it would mean the world to us … Continue reading
Drive-by Saviours makes Top 40 Canada Reads List
Holy. Moly. We can hardly believe it. Well, actually we can, because we read Chris Benjamin’s Drive-by Saviours and then decided to release it, but still! Drive-by Saviours has been voted into the Top 40 list of Essential Canadian Novels … Continue reading
How The Cougar Came to be Called the Ghost Cat – Launch Photos
Michael Isaac’s How the Cougar Came to be Called the Ghost Cat is a beautiful, unique and powerful book. Aside from being Roseway’s first children’s book, Ghost Cat is written both in English and Mi’kmaw, making this book all the … Continue reading