by Cassandra Drudi

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

Cheryl Chen joins Penguin Random House Canada in the role of managing editor, Canadian paperbacks, effective August 2, sharing responsibility for the company’s list of imprints with managing editor Liz Lee. Danielle Gerritse, previously publishing coordinator ... Read More »

August 3, 2022

Shortlist for $25K Stephen Leacock Medal announced

By Cassandra Drudi

The finalists for the 2022 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour have been announced. Books by Mark Critch, Dawn Dumont, and Rick Mercer have been shortlisted for this year's $25,000 award. The winner will be ... Read More »

August 3, 2022

Rights Deals: Linh S. Nguyễn, Susan Juby, and Maia Caron

By Cassandra Drudi

HarperCollins Canada, Children’s associate editor Yash Kesanakurthy has acquired world rights to Linh S. Nguyễn’s No Place Like Home. The middle-grade novel is described as a portal fantasy that draws on the author’s cultural heritage ... Read More »

July 28, 2022

Samra Habib, Ann Hui, and John Zada shortlisted for 2020 Edna Staebler Award

By Cassandra Drudi

The finalists have been announced for the 2020 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. The $10,000 prize is awarded annually by Wilfrid Laurier University. Laurier announced the three-book shortlist on July 27. The shortlists for the ... Read More »

July 28, 2022

Newfoundland publisher Boulder Books marks 20 years and turns new chapter with expansion

By Cassandra Drudi

Twenty years after Gavin Will started Boulder Books as a small regional publisher based out of his home in Portugal Cove-St. Philip’s, Newfoundland, he’s looking to expand operations. Will – a former journalist – decided to ... Read More »

July 27, 2022

Personnel changes: Tundra Books

By Cassandra Drudi

Gigi Lau joins the Tundra Book Group as art director, effective September 12. She joins the team from Harlequin, where she has been art director for the past 10 years. As previously announced, Tundra’s outgoing art director ... Read More »

July 27, 2022

Personnel change: Transatlantic Agency

By Cassandra Drudi

Noelle Marie Falcis Math has been hired as a marketing assistant and agent assistant at Transatlantic Agency. She will oversee and project-manage catalogues, social media, newsletters, and contacts databases, and will assist literary agents Chelene ... Read More »

July 27, 2022

Rights Deal: Oonya Kempadoo

By Cassandra Drudi

Rare Machines’s Kwame Scott Fraser has acquired Canadian and Caribbean English rights to Oonya Kempadoo’s Naniki. The book is described as a mytho-poetic novella that honours the Indigenous roots of the Caribbean in a cross-cultural, ... Read More »

July 25, 2022

Rights Deals: Patrik Sampler, Desiree Nielsen + four more

By Cassandra Drudi

New Star Books publisher Rolf Maurer has acquired Canadian English rights to Patrik Sampler’s Naked Defiance: A Comedy of Menace. The novel is described as a hilarious and provocative interrogation of society’s most enlightened impulses and a challenge to the ... Read More »

July 21, 2022

Personnel changes: Orca Book Publishers

By Cassandra Drudi

Bronte Germain has joined Orca Book Publishers as eastern sales manager. Germain will manage retail and specialty accounts in Canada and the U.S., with a focus on the eastern side of North America. Germain’s Canadian territory includes Ontario, ... Read More »

July 21, 2022

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Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

Shortlist for $25K Stephen Leacock Medal announced

Rights Deals: Linh S. Nguyễn, Susan Juby, and Maia Caron

Samra Habib, Ann Hui, and John Zada shortlisted for 2020 Edna Staebler Award

Newfoundland publisher Boulder Books marks 20 years and turns new chapter with expansion

Personnel changes: Tundra Books

Personnel change: Transatlantic Agency

Rights Deal: Oonya Kempadoo

Rights Deals: Patrik Sampler, Desiree Nielsen + four more

Personnel changes: Orca Book Publishers

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