June 19, 2024
The Kluane First Nation has won this year's Indigenous History Book Prize, an annual national award that honours the best book about Indigenous history. Lhù’ààn Mân Keyí Dań Kwánje Nààtsat: Kluane Lake Country People Speak ... Read More »
June 19, 2024
Shivani Ojha has joined CookeMcDermid as contracts and operations assistant. Ojha joins CookeMcDermid from Penguin Random House Canada, where most recently she had internships with Penguin Canada editorial and PRHC’s sales and operations. Ojha reports ... Read More »
June 19, 2024
Simon & Schuster Canada president and publisher Nicole Winstanley has acquired North American rights to Kate Robson’s Something to Hold Onto. The nonfiction book is described as an uplifting collection of literary metaphors, images, and ... Read More »
June 17, 2024
Historian and author Renee Fossett has been named the winner of the 2024 William Mills Prize for Non-Fiction Polar Books. Fossett won the award for The Life and Times of Augustine Tataneuck: An Inuk Hero ... Read More »
June 17, 2024
Naomi Klein has won the inaugural Women’s Prize for Non-fiction. The £30,000 ($50,900 CAD) award was established by the Women’s Prize Trust in 2023 to honour exceptional nonfiction written by women. Books written by women ... Read More »
June 13, 2024
Wattpad Books’s Deanna McFadden has acquired world rights to Jessica Cunsolo’s The Blind Date Agreement, with Fiona Simpson editing. The YA romance is described as the story of a girl who agrees to go on ... Read More »
June 13, 2024
Leila Marshy has been appointed fiction editor at Baraka Books. Marshy has been working with the Quebec-based publisher since early 2024. As fiction editor, she will be responsible for selecting, editing, production, and post-publishing follow-up ... Read More »
June 13, 2024
Chloe Gandy will be joining Simon & Schuster Canada as publishing assistant to the president and publisher as of June 17. ... Read More »
June 13, 2024
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