by Cassandra Drudi

Invisible Publishing launches first novel prize in collaboration with York University

Invisible Publishing's just-announced first novel prize was born, in part, out of a cold call. Since taking over the reins at the small press last April, publisher Norm Nehmetallah had been thinking about how the ... Read More »

January 11, 2023

Personnel changes: The Rights Factory

By Cassandra Drudi

Claire Cavanagh joins The Rights Factory as an assistant agent. She has earned a PhD (Univ. of Southhampton, U.K.) and an MPub from Simon Fraser University. Previously she was a sales coordinator at Breakwater Books ... Read More »

January 10, 2023

Rights Deals: Alan Bradley, foreign rights for Maureen Jennings + five more

By Cassandra Drudi

Bantam has acquired U.S. rights to Alan Bradley’s What Time the Sexton’s Spade Doth Rust and an as-yet untitled book in a two-book deal. What Time the Sexton’s Spade Doth Rust, the 11th book in ... Read More »

January 9, 2023

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Toula Drimonis on her runaway success and Quebec’s politics of immigration

By Cassandra Drudi

About a decade ago, Montreal journalist and columnist Toula Drimonis thought about writing a book in tribute to her parents, who were Greek immigrants. The project gained a good deal of momentum and political urgency ... Read More »

January 5, 2023

Rights Deal: Wallace Edwards, Terry Watada + seven more

By Cassandra Drudi

Scholastic Canada’s Anne Shone has acquired world rights to Wallace Edwards’s Pigs Can’t Fly. The picture book from the GG-winning author-illustrator is described as showing through witty animal feats how the impossible might just be ... Read More »

January 5, 2023

Shop Talk: The Spaniel’s Tale Bookstore

By Cassandra Drudi

Shop Talk is an occasional feature in which fledgling independent booksellers take Q&Q into their stores and share their reasons for opening and what business has been like so far. The Spaniel’s Tale Bookstore 1131 ... Read More »

January 4, 2023

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

After 22 years as a key member of the warehouse team, Catherine (Cathy) Emery is retiring from Penguin Random House Canada, effective December 22, 2022. Former marketing and publicity intern Fahima Chowdhury has joined the marketing and publicity ... Read More »

December 21, 2022

Louise Dennys stepping down as executive publisher and executive vice-president of PRHC

By Cassandra Drudi

Louise Dennys, whose career in the Canadian publishing industry spans five decades, will be stepping down from her role as executive publisher and executive vice-president at Penguin Random House Canada at the end of December. ... Read More »

December 21, 2022

Children’s author Aubrey Davis remembered as a captivating storyteller

By Cassandra Drudi

Children's author and storyteller Aubrey Davis, who published four award-winning picture books with Kids Can Press, is being remembered as an exuberant and captivating storyteller. Davis died on December 15, the Idries Shah Foundation announced. ... Read More »

December 19, 2022

Rights Deals: Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Jeremy Appel + seven more

By Cassandra Drudi

Véhicule Press’s Dimitri Nasrallah has acquired Jean Marc Ah-Sen’s Kilworthy Tanner. The novel is described as a “pseudobiography” that unravels the tangled narrative of his breakup with Kilworthy Tanner, his paramour and former mentor. The ... Read More »

December 19, 2022

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Invisible Publishing launches first novel prize in collaboration with York University

Personnel changes: The Rights Factory

Rights Deals: Alan Bradley, foreign rights for Maureen Jennings + five more

Toula Drimonis on her runaway success and Quebec’s politics of immigration

Rights Deal: Wallace Edwards, Terry Watada + seven more

Shop Talk: The Spaniel’s Tale Bookstore

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

Louise Dennys stepping down as executive publisher and executive vice-president of PRHC

Children’s author Aubrey Davis remembered as a captivating storyteller

Rights Deals: Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Jeremy Appel + seven more

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