A P.E.I. lawyer is finishing up a children's book series on Canada's Charter of Rights with some help from a New Brunswick lobster, a Montreal bagel, a Saskatchewan moose, and Anne of Green Tomatoes.

Prolific Mexican novelist and essayist Carlos Fuentes has died in a hospital in Mexico City, according to Mexico's cultural agency. He was 83.

The burgeoning e-book format has gained some major star power, with the work of Truman Capote and a forthcoming Kirk Douglas memoir set to be published digitally.

West Coast authors Esi Edugyan and Charlotte Gill won further acclaim on the weekend, with the two writers among the latest recipients of the B.C. Book Prizes.

E.L. James, the fledgling British writer behind the surprise publishing phenomenon and erotic romance Fifty Shades of Grey, talks to Q about her 'love story with a kink.'

David Gilmour's The Perfect Order of Things and David Bezmozgis' The Free World are among the finalists for the Trillium Prize, an Ontario award for fiction or poetry.

Johanna Skibsrud, the Giller-winner for her debut novel The Sentimentalists, is nominated for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for her first short story collection.

Children's author Maurice Sendak, the man behind the children's classic Where the Wild Things Are, has died in Connecticut.