by Cassandra Drudi

Personnel change: Transatlantic Agency

Laura Cameron has been promoted from associate agent to literary agent at Transatlantic Agency. She will be taking on clients for literary representation with a specialization in book-to-tv/film representation. Her growing client list includes Ruchira ... Read More »

June 23, 2021

Nathan Adler, Bevann Fox, jaye simpson among Indigenous Voices Awards winners

By Cassandra Drudi

The nine winners of the Indigenous Voices Awards were announced Monday on National Indigenous Peoples Day in a virtual ceremony. The winners in nine categories received a total of $39,000. "This celebration is meant to ... Read More »

June 21, 2021

Rights Deals: Philippa Dowding and Samra Zafar

By Cassandra Drudi

DCB’s Barry Jowett has acquired world print rights, world audio rights, and world TV rights to Philippa Dowding’s Oculum Echo. The middle-grade novel is described as a new story set in the world of the ... Read More »

June 21, 2021

Personnel changes: Canadian Manda Group

By Cassandra Drudi

Milana Madzarac has joined the sales team in the role of account manager, online retail, at the Canadian Manda Group. Madzarac previously worked for several years as a sales associate for Indigo Books & Music. ... Read More »

June 21, 2021

Personnel change: Kids Can Press

By Cassandra Drudi

Allison King joins Kids Can Press on a one-year contract as U.S. and international accounts manager, reporting to sales and marketing director Sarah Labrie. Prior to her most recent position as account executive at a ... Read More »

June 21, 2021

Rights Deals: Anne Renaud, Lorna Schultz Nicholson + eight more

By Cassandra Drudi

Reycraft Books’s Wiley Blevins has acquired world English rights to Anne Renaud’s Ferdinand Cheval: The Postman Who Delivered a Palace. The picture book is described as a biography of Cheval, the forerunner of the Naïve ... Read More »

June 17, 2021

Souvankham Thammavongsa wins $20,000 Trillium Book Award

By Cassandra Drudi

Souvankham Thammavongsa has won the $20,000 Trillium Book Award for her short-fiction collection How to Pronounce Knife (McClelland & Stewart). Poet Jody Chan was awarded the Trillium Book Award for Poetry for her collection, Sick ... Read More »

June 16, 2021

Rights Deals: Michael Wilson, Jen Gerson + two more

By Cassandra Drudi

University of Toronto Press has acquired world rights to the late Honourable Michael Wilson's Something within Me: A Personal and Political Memoir. The memoir is described as a candid account of Wilson's years as federal ... Read More »

June 14, 2021

Distribution change: Baker & Taylor

By Cassandra Drudi

Baker & Taylor Publisher Services has announced a new sales and distribution client, with Canadian sales representation to the trade provided by Ampersand Inc. and by Parasource for the Christian market. Effective July 1, BTPS ... Read More »

June 14, 2021