Chris Labonte, Douglas & McIntyre’s Assistant Publisher & Acquiring Editor, imagines a fiction program that features extraordinary writers. “Extraordinary writers willing to push the bounds of literature; to mess around with form and content and style; to bend genre and explore new ways of telling good stories.”

The result is the Fall 2009 “Imagine That” campaign and the Speak Easy podcast, hosted by John Burns.

Featured in my press kit are the following books.

Daniel O’Thunder: a Novel by Ian Weir

Heading South: a Novel by Dany Laferriere, translated by Wayne Grady

Red: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

Also in my kit was a reminder that Douglas & McIntyre has been publishing Quebecois and French-Canadian literature in translation for nearly two decades. Included on the list are several works by Monique Proulx (I want to read Invisible Man at the Window) and works by Daniel Poliquin.

I’m looking forward to more podcasts and great fiction. Thanks for keeping me in the loop D&M.