June 13, 2011
For immediate release
Montreal writer Linda Leith announces the creation of Linda Leith Publishing Inc.
With the book industry undergoing a period of unprecedented
change, Montreal writer Linda Leith today announces the creation of Linda Leith
Publishing Inc., which will
publish short works of narrative non-fiction both as electronic and as print
books. Books will appear in English from Fall 2011 and in French from Spring
2012.
“These are
challenging times for the book industry,” says Leith. “Dramatic changes in the
market and technological innovations open up new opportunities both nationally
and internationally. Linda Leith Publishing Inc. is designed to make the most of these opportunities by publishing in
both digital and print formats – and in both English and French.”
Linda Leith
Publishing will focus on books in the 15,000-18,000 word length. The decision
to focus primarily on short works of narrative non-fiction in digital form, a
first in Canada, echoes the development in May 2011 of electronic books sold as
Kindle Singles on www.amazon.com and as Byliner
Originals on www.byliner.com.
Owner and President Linda Leith has more than 20 years of
entrepreneurial experience as publisher of the literary magazine Matrix and as fiction editor for Véhicule Press (1988-1995), and
then as Founder, President and Artistic Director of Blue Metropolis Foundation
(1997-2010), which organizes the Blue Metropolis Montreal International
Literary Festival. She resigned from Blue Metropolis Foundation in 2010 to
devote herself to writing and publishing.
Herself a writer of
fiction and non-fiction whose books have been praised by The Globe & Mail, Le
Devoir, the Times Literary Supplement,
the Budapest Sun, Australia’s Book Show, and elsewhere, Linda Leith was
born in Northern Ireland, and has lived in Belfast, London, Basel, Paris, and
Budapest as well as in Montreal. She has published seven books, the most recent
of which are the memoirs Marrying Hungary
(Signature Editions, 2008; translated by Aline Apostolska as Épouser la Hongrie, Leméac Éditeur
2004) and Writing in the Time of
Nationalism (Signature Editions, 2010).
Having developed a
brand identified with literary quality, openness, linguistic diversity and
internationalism, she launched an online literary salon in English at www.lindaleith.com in March 2011. Currently featuring short narrative
non-fiction work by a dozen professional writers, the web site will be expanded
and developed for use in the promotion of writers and books published by Linda Leith
Publishing Inc.
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For book queries, please
see https://www.lindaleith.com/publishing
For further
Information, contact:
Christopher DiRaddo
514-806-5087
cd@christopherdiraddo.com