by Becky Robertson

Scaachi Koul’s autobiographical essay collection coming to TV

The bestselling debut essay collection from Buzzfeed culture writer Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead And None of This Will Matter (Doubleday Canada), is being adapted into a comedy series by the recently launched TV ... Read More »

July 13, 2017 | Filed under: Deals

Book Links: First look at Oprah in A Wrinkle in Time; help this library cast some early modern magic spells

By Becky Robertson

A first look at Oprah and others in the new film adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time. (Entertainment Weekly) U.S. library invites readers to help transcribe early modern magic texts. (The Mary Sue) On the TV movie adaptation of ... Read More »

July 13, 2017 | Filed under: Book links

Journey Prize announces 2017 longlist of emerging Canadian writers

By Becky Robertson

This year's longlist for the Writers' Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize – the country's richest prize for a short-story or fiction excerpt by an emerging writer published in a Canadian literary magazine – was announced ... Read More »

July 13, 2017 | Filed under: Awards

Book Links: Moonlight director to take on James Baldwin novel; Trump target Mika Brzezinski signs three-book deal

By Becky Robertson

Moonlight director Barry Jenkins to adapt 1974 James Baldwin novel to screen. (Electric Literature) Mika Brzezinski signs six-figure, three-book deal with Weinstein Books after being subject of notorious Trump tweets. (Los Angeles Times) Milo Yiannopoulos is ... Read More »

July 12, 2017 | Filed under: Book links

Daily Deals: Debut Shelley Wood novel goes to William Morrow; Scholastic Canada acquires Vikki VanSickle’s YA novel

By Becky Robertson

William Morrow executive editor Lucia Macro has acquired North American rights to the debut novel by B.C. fiction writer and journalist Shelley Wood. Quintland™ takes readers inside the devastating true story of the Dionne Quintuplets through fiction steeped in research. ... Read More »

July 11, 2017

Personnel Changes: Dundurn

By Becky Robertson

Toronto publisher Dundurn has hired two new editorial staff members. Scott Fraser has been hired as acquisitions editor. Fraser brings experience in many aspects of the book publishing world, both as an independent editor and former sales ... Read More »

July 11, 2017

New Rupi Kaur collection, the sun and her flowers, coming in October

By Becky Robertson

Simon & Schuster Canada has announced the anticipated second collection of poems and illustrations from bestselling milk and honey author and Instagram sensation Rupi Kaur. Divided into five chapters, the sun and her flowers "guides readers ... Read More »

July 11, 2017 | Filed under: Authors, Bestsellers

Book Links: Pearson sells PRH stake to partner Bertelsmann; George R.R. Martin to produce new TV adaptation

By Becky Robertson

Bertelsmann increases stake in Penguin Random House an additional 22 per cent. (The Guardian) George R.R. Martin will produce HBO adaptation of Nnedi Okorafor's 2010 novel Who Fears Death. (Entertainment Weekly) Libraries will likely hit one ... Read More »

July 11, 2017 | Filed under: Book links

Canadian writers invited to pitch their unpublished books in third #CanLitPit event

By Becky Robertson

Canadian writers are invited once again to participate in #CanLitPit, the online book-pitching event hosted by DigiWriting, during which publishers and agents like ECW Press, BookThug, Second Story Press, and the Rights Factory solicit manuscripts through ... Read More »

July 10, 2017 | Filed under: Book culture

Cundill Prize announces jury, receives record number of submissions

By Becky Robertson

The Cundill History Prize, the annual international English-langauge literary award administered by Montreal's McGill University, has announced the judges for its 10th edition – a year that also sees the prize relaunching and rebranding. British-American historian and ... Read More »

July 10, 2017 | Filed under: Awards

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Scaachi Koul’s autobiographical essay collection coming to TV

Book Links: First look at Oprah in A Wrinkle in Time; help this library cast some early modern magic spells

Journey Prize announces 2017 longlist of emerging Canadian writers

Book Links: Moonlight director to take on James Baldwin novel; Trump target Mika Brzezinski signs three-book deal

Daily Deals: Debut Shelley Wood novel goes to William Morrow; Scholastic Canada acquires Vikki VanSickle’s YA novel

Personnel Changes: Dundurn

New Rupi Kaur collection, the sun and her flowers, coming in October

Book Links: Pearson sells PRH stake to partner Bertelsmann; George R.R. Martin to produce new TV adaptation

Canadian writers invited to pitch their unpublished books in third #CanLitPit event

Cundill Prize announces jury, receives record number of submissions

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