(Toronto, May 30, 2011) — Kirk Howard, president and publisher of Dundurn, and J. Patrick Boyer, president of Blue Butterfly Books, will consolidate their book publishing operations as of June 1, 2011. Blue Butterfly Books, now in its fourth year as an independent Canadian publisher of fiction and non-fiction, was affiliated with Cormorant Books for sales and distribution until last month when Cormorant’s president Marc Côté announced pairing of his operations with Thomas Allen & Son.