Greg Lawrence and James Tonn were the first to see – or hear – potential in The Martian. Andy Weir’s debut novel is now a New York Times bestseller and, in October, will be released ... Read More »
September 4, 2015
The International Festival of Authors has announced the participants in its International Visitors Programme, which offers top Canadian and international ... Read More »
September 3, 2015
Toronto genre-fiction press ChiZine Publications has teamed up with Canadian-born fantasy writer Ed Greenwood – creator of the Forgotten Realms role-playing game products – for a massive 10-year project that will include more than 80 ... Read More »
September 3, 2015
HarperCollins Canada editorial director Jennifer Lambert has acquired Canadian rights to the debut novel by Pickle Me This blogger and 49th Shelf editor Kerry Clare. Mitzi Bytes, called "a grown-up Harriet the Spy for the ... Read More »
September 3, 2015
Don DeLillo to receive National Book Award for lifetime achievement (LA Times). Red Hen Press faces controversy, resignations in wake of managing editor Kate Gale's Huffington Post article (Publishers Weekly). Literary groups want to ... Read More »
September 3, 2015 | Filed under: Book links
Penguin Random House Canada Children's Publishing Group publisher Tara Walker has acquired Canadian rights to two forthcoming picture books by author Kyo Maclear and illustrator Julie Morstad in a two-book deal. Bloom, about Italian fashion ... Read More »
September 2, 2015
North American rights to books eight and nine in Toronto author Elizabeth J. Duncan’s Penny Brannigan mystery series have been sold to Minotaur/St. Martin's Press. Audio rights to the seventh book in the series, Murder ... Read More »
September 2, 2015
Penguin Random House buys rights to self-published buzz book that claims to put kids to sleep (Publishers Weekly). OverDrive cites more than 100-million ebook and audiobook checkouts from libraries (Goodereader). 007 author Anthony Horowitz says ... Read More »
September 2, 2015 | Filed under: Book links
Penguin Random House Canada president and publisher Kristin Cochrane has acquired Canadian rights to The Bear author Claire Cameron's latest title, The Last Neanderthal, in a two-book deal. The novel, which follows the last family ... Read More »
September 1, 2015
Rare-books expert says passages rumoured to be third novel by Harper Lee are actually drafts of Mockingbird and Watchman (The Guardian). Penguin Random House announces sales up 16.2 per cent in first half of 2015 ... Read More »
September 1, 2015 | Filed under: Book links
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