Mike Tanner’s Flat-Out-Rock (Annick) was named to The New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age 2007.  The list is referred to by librarians across the United States who are recommending this illustrated book on the 10 Great bands of the ‘60s.

Filming has concluded for a documentary based upon Ken McGoogan’s award winning book Fatal Passage featuring Rick Roberts as John Rae, the Scottish doctor who discovered the key link in the Northwest Passage and discovered the shocking truth about the failed expeditions of Sir John Franklin.  The film is directed by the highly regarded John Walker.

History Canada and BBC Scotland will broadcast the film.

Donna Morrissey’s Sylvanus Now is being released in Germany by Premium/DTV.  Her masterpiece is a powerful tale of two young people living on Canada’s Atlantic coast in the 1950’s caught in the biggest environmental disaster of our times, the death of the once abundant cod fishery.

Howard Engel, creator of Canada’s most lovable sleuth in detective fiction Benny Cooperman, was named to the Order of Canada.  He joins a handful of distinguished Canadians cited for extraordinary achievements. 

Benny Cooperman appears in more than 10 novels and two films, and his exploits have been published around the world. 

With the award, Benny and Howard are celebrated national treasures.

Marina Nemat's powerful memoir, Prisoner of Tehran is receiving world-wide attention and acclaim. More than 16 international publishers have acquired rights to the book in which she recounts the shocking story of her arrest in Iran at the age of 16 for political crimes.

She was sentenced to death and was rescued from the firing squad by a Revolutionary Guard who had fallen in love with her. He then exacted a brutal price -- a forced marriage while she remained his prisoner.

Marina's extensive promotion tour in the U.S. Canada, U.K, and Europe began with a launch party organized by the proud faculty of the writing program at the School of Continuing Studies at the University of Toronto.

For four years, Marina attended evening classes where she wrote the memoir of her experience in Tehran's Evin Prison. She traveled to the downtown Toronto campus after working the lunch shift as a waitress at a suburban restaurant.