by Cassandra Drudi

Invisible Publishing names Norm Nehmetallah as new publisher

Norm Nehmetallah will become the new publisher of Invisible Publishing next month. Nehmetallah takes over from Leigh Nash, who becomes the new publisher at House of Anansi Press in April. Nehmetallah, who is currently a ... Read More »

March 31, 2022

Rahaf Mohammed on her memoir of escape from abuse

By Cassandra Drudi

In 2019, Rahaf Mohammed snuck out of a Kuwaiti hotel room in the middle of the night and headed to the airport to catch a plane to Bangkok. She was 18 and running away from ... Read More »

March 30, 2022

Newfoundland small press branches out into nonfiction

By Cassandra Drudi

Newfoundland and Labrador small press Engen Books launched 15 years ago publishing mostly horror books but is now expanding its list with nonfiction titles – a more generalist direction they’d always hoped to be able ... Read More »

March 30, 2022

Personnel change: Transatlantic Agency

By Cassandra Drudi

Rob Firing has been promoted to partner at Transatlantic Agency. Alongside his list of author clients, Firing is director of Transatlantic Speakers, responsible for developing the Transatlantic Speakers Division into a growing force of primarily ... Read More »

March 30, 2022

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

At Penguin Random House Canada, Carla Kean has been promoted to the newly created role of head of production, from her previous role as director of production. She will continue to report to vice-president of publishing ... Read More »

March 28, 2022

Distribution change: Between the Lines

By Cassandra Drudi

Between the Lines will be distributed in Canada by University of Toronto Press Distribution as of April 1, ... Read More »

March 28, 2022

Distribution change: Chalkboard Publishing

By Cassandra Drudi

Effective April 1, 2022, Thomas Allen & Son will become the exclusive Canadian distributor for Chalkboard Publishing, ... Read More »

March 24, 2022

Rights Deals: Jason Skrobar, Natasha Deen + four more

By Cassandra Drudi

Appetite by Random House’s Robert McCullough and Lindsay Paterson have acquired world rights to food stylist and CTV’s Your Morning on-air culinary expert Jason Skrobar’s The Book on Sandwiches. The recipe book is described as ... Read More »

March 24, 2022

TikTok drives reprint of a small-press poetry collection – 22 years later

By Cassandra Drudi

It reads like the plot of a fantasy novel: an enormously popular social media app, best known for lip-syncing videos and viral challenges, is fostering a love of reading among a young, tech-savvy generation. But ... Read More »

March 23, 2022