Anita Chong has been promoted from senior editor to the newly created role of executive editor. Joe Lee has ... Read More »
April 12, 2021
Bridgette Kam is moving from the rights department to become a literary associate, working with Jackie Kaiser and Hilary McMahon. Caroline ... Read More »
April 12, 2021
Penguin Canada’s Lara Hinchberger has acquired Canadian rights and Dutton’s Maya Ziv has acquired U.S. rights to bestselling author Karma Brown’s What Wild Women Do. The novel is described as a dual timeline book set ... Read More »
April 8, 2021
Canadian poet Anne Carson has won the 2021 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. The $50,000 US ($63,000 CDN) award will be presented in a virtual ceremony on April 8. The award has been ... Read More »
April 8, 2021
The story of print book sales in Canada in 2020 in some ways mirrors the story of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic: print book sales were down overall, but some categories, including games, education, and thrillers, ... Read More »
April 1, 2021
Simon & Schuster Canada’s senior vice-president and publisher Jennifer Bergstrom, president and publisher Kevin Hanson, and senior editor Justin Stoller, and Gallery Books’s assistant editor Max Meltzer have acquired North American rights to Mark Messier’s ... Read More »
April 1, 2021
Rachel Guglielmelli is joining the production team at Penguin Random House Canada in the role of digital ... Read More »
April 1, 2021
Karmen Wells has joined The Rights Factory as an associate agent for film and TV. She will continue to edit ... Read More »
March 31, 2021
Award-winning novelist Esi Edugyan will deliver this year’s CBC Massey Lectures. In Out of the Sun: On Art, Race, and the Future, Edugyan will examine how Black histories have been portrayed in art, through the ... Read More »
March 29, 2021
Level Best Books has acquired Canadian, U.S., and U.K. rights to Gabrielle St George’s How to Murder a Marriage. The mystery novel is described as the story of bestselling advice author Gina Malone, an empty ... Read More »
March 29, 2021
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