Al Cummings, who co-founded A Different Drummer Books and went on to launch Madison Press Books, has died. Cummings died in his 84th year after a brief illness. In 1970, he and John Richardson founded ... Read More »
September 18, 2024
Simon & Schuster editor Brittany Lavery has been named the second-ever winner of the Professional Association of Canadian Literary Agents’s (PACLA) Publishing Professional of the Year Award. PACLA agents nominated and voted for the person ... Read More »
September 18, 2024
The City of Ottawa has announced the 13 books shortlisted for the 2024 Ottawa Book Awards. The annual awards recognize books of literary excellence in both English and French written by authors who live in ... Read More »
September 18, 2024
University of Toronto Press has acquired the linguistics catalogue of U.K.-based independent academic publisher Equinox Publishing. The academic publisher announced the acquisition – part of the growth of its global list – on Sept. 17. The ... Read More »
September 18, 2024
The Writers' Trust has announced the five finalists for the 2024 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. The annual prize recognizes excellence in literary nonfiction and is supported by the Hilary and Galen Weston ... Read More »
September 18, 2024
Canadian novelist Anne Michaels has been shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize. The shortlist for this year's £50,000 prize (worth about $88,000 Canadian) was announced on Sept. 16. Michaels is one of five women and ... Read More »
September 16, 2024
The Association of Canadian Publishers is launching a new salary survey for the Canadian book trade. Working in partnership with the Canadian Publishers' Council and arts nonprofit Work in Culture, the 2024 Canadian publishing salary ... Read More »
September 16, 2024
Doubleday Canada’s Bhavna Chauhan has acquired Canadian English rights and Ballantine Books’s Natalie Hallak has acquired U.S. rights to bestselling author Heather Marshall’s Liberty Street and a second novel in an exclusive submission. Liberty Street ... Read More »
September 12, 2024
Long live print: Canadian readers are reading more books in print than in any other format, according to a new study published by BookNet Canada. The Turning Pages: Print Book Use in Canada 2023 report ... Read More »
September 12, 2024
Joni Di Placido has joined Transatlantic Agency as international rights coordinator and agent assistant. Di Placido, who speaks Italian and Spanish, will support agents with their international rights work. Di Placido has worked in publishing ... Read More »
September 12, 2024
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