by Cassandra Drudi

Rights Deals: Kathy Friedman, foreign rights for Seth + six more

House of Anansi’s Douglas Richmond has acquired world rights to Kathy Friedman’s All the Shining People. The debut short-story collection explores themes of migration, diaspora, and belonging within greater Toronto's large Jewish South African community, as ... Read More »

February 22, 2021

Q&A: Louise B. Halfe will highlight Aboriginal writers as Parliamentary poet laureate

By Cassandra Drudi

Award-winning Cree poet Louise B. Halfe was appointed Canada's ninth parliamentary poet laureate earlier this month. Halfe, who also goes by the Cree name Sky Dancer, is the first Indigenous poet named to the ... Read More »

February 22, 2021

Rights Deals: Teresa Toten, Michael Ignatieff, Thomas King + nine more

By Cassandra Drudi

Scholastic Canada’s Anne Shone has acquired Canadian English rights to Teresa Toten’s Eight Days. The YA novel is described as the story of 14-year-old Samantha, who thought her mother died years ago, and her eight-day ... Read More »

February 18, 2021

Freedom to Read Week 2021 highlights the urgency of intellectual freedom

By Cassandra Drudi

Challenges to books, magazines, and other publications is an ongoing issue in Canada, and materials are likely challenged more often than is reported, according to the Book and Periodical Council’s Intellectual Freedom Committee. “The scale ... Read More »

February 18, 2021

Personnel change: UBC Press

By Cassandra Drudi

Michelle van der Merwe has been hired as assistant director of production and editorial services at UBC Press. She joined UBC Press in 2018 as a production editor, and has extensive production experience in book ... Read More »

February 17, 2021

Personnel change: Transatlantic Agency

By Cassandra Drudi

Cody Caetano has been promoted to associate agent at the Transatlantic Agency, representing fiction and nonfiction and particularly championing new Anishinaabe and First Nations voices. Caetano, whose forthcoming memoir is expected for publication in 2022, joined the ... Read More »

February 17, 2021

Distribution change: Shoebox Media

By Cassandra Drudi

Beginning April 1, 2021, Publishers Group Canada will begin English ... Read More »

February 17, 2021

Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s thriller expected in fall 2021

By Cassandra Drudi

Astronaut and author Chris Hadfield is making his first foray into fiction. The bestselling author announced this week that his thriller, The Apollo Murders, is slated for publication by Penguin Random House Canada on Oct. ... Read More »

February 10, 2021

Four Rights Deals: including Cherie Dimaline and Billy-Ray Belcourt

By Cassandra Drudi

Appetite by Random House’s Zoe Maslow and Robert McCullough have acquired Dads in the Kitchen: Home Cooking for the Modern Man by Cory Vitiello, co-owner and chef of Flock Rotisserie and Greens and director of ... Read More »

February 8, 2021

Toronto’s Parentbooks, closing after nearly 35 years, was an international destination and community touchstone

By Cassandra Drudi

When Patti Kirk opened Parentbooks in downtown Toronto in 1986, she didn’t imagine that the bookstore would become a cornerstone of resources and support for special-needs parents. But now, as the store closes after nearly ... Read More »

January 27, 2021

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Rights Deals: Kathy Friedman, foreign rights for Seth + six more

Q&A: Louise B. Halfe will highlight Aboriginal writers as Parliamentary poet laureate

Rights Deals: Teresa Toten, Michael Ignatieff, Thomas King + nine more

Freedom to Read Week 2021 highlights the urgency of intellectual freedom

Personnel change: UBC Press

Personnel change: Transatlantic Agency

Distribution change: Shoebox Media

Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s thriller expected in fall 2021

Four Rights Deals: including Cherie Dimaline and Billy-Ray Belcourt

Toronto’s Parentbooks, closing after nearly 35 years, was an international destination and community touchstone

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