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Personnel changes: TouchWood Editions

Curtis Samuel will be joining TouchWood Editions as publicist and social media coordinator in mid-February. He is based in Toronto and has previously worked in publicity at House of Anansi and Penguin Random House. Tori ... Read More »

February 5, 2021

Eight Rights Deals: including Berhane, Fowles, Hassan, Johnson, and Slava P

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Douglas Richmond and Bruce Walsh at House of Anansi Press have acquired world rights to Harold R. Johnson’s The Bjorkan Sagas. The work is a fusion of narrative traditions and is set in an enchanted world of ... Read More »

February 4, 2021

Address change: The Bukowski Agency

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The Bukowski Agency has moved to: 20 Prince Arthur Avenue, Suite ... Read More »

February 1, 2021

The Crime Writers of Canada replace their antiquated logo  

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After three decades, the Crime Writers of Canada (CWC) have laid to rest their former logo – a hanged man – and renamed their annual literary awards. In June 2020, Hyacinthe Miller, a member of ... Read More »

February 1, 2021

Six Rights Deals: Caroline Adderson, Megan Gail Coles, Sam Cooper, Wayne Johnston, Leo Furey, and Lawrence Stevenson

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Sutherland House has acquired world rights to Lawrence Stevenson’s Cyprus: Hostage to Paralysis, an extended essay on the geopolitical realities and the future of the country, from the perspective of a peacekeeper. Publication is planned ... Read More »

January 28, 2021

Daily Deals: Ellen Keith’s follow-up to The Dutch Wife to HarperCollins Canada; Anna Maxymiw’s debut novel to McClelland & Stewart

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Patrick Crean at HarperCollins Canada has acquired world rights to Ellen Keith’s The Dutch Orphan. Loosely tied to events in Keith’s bestselling debut, The Dutch Wife, the novel features two sisters, one of them hiding ... Read More »

January 27, 2021

Personnel changes: Frye Festival

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Pierre-André Doucet joins the Frye Festival as interim executive director, taking over from Émilie Turmel until ... Read More »

January 27, 2021

Ballpoint Literary Agency launches

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Ballpoint Literary Agency has launched in Toronto. The new literary agency is founded by author Dave Bidini; Warren Sheffer, a lawyer specializing in intellectual property law; and Janet Morassutti, managing editor of the West End Phoenix. ... Read More »

January 27, 2021

Daily Deals: Antanas Sileika novel to Cormorant Books; Katherine Ryan memoir, The Audacity, to Doubleday Canada

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Marc Côté of Cormorant Books has acquired world rights (including dramatic and audio) to Antanas Sileika’s Unbowed Heart. Based on historical events, the novel tells the story of a rhyming assassin, underground resistance, and precarious ... Read More »

January 26, 2021

Daily Deals: Britt Wray’s Generation Dread to Knopf Canada

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Knopf Canada’s Amanda Betts has bought Canadian rights to Stanford University’s post-doctoral Fellow in Human and Planetary Health Britt Wray’s Generation Dread: How to Harness Anxiety, Make Meaning and Take Action in the Face of Ecological ... Read More »

January 25, 2021

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Personnel changes: TouchWood Editions

Eight Rights Deals: including Berhane, Fowles, Hassan, Johnson, and Slava P

Address change: The Bukowski Agency

The Crime Writers of Canada replace their antiquated logo

Six Rights Deals: Caroline Adderson, Megan Gail Coles, Sam Cooper, Wayne Johnston, Leo Furey, and Lawrence Stevenson

Daily Deals: Ellen Keith’s follow-up to The Dutch Wife to HarperCollins Canada; Anna Maxymiw’s debut novel to McClelland & Stewart

Personnel changes: Frye Festival

Ballpoint Literary Agency launches

Daily Deals: Antanas Sileika novel to Cormorant Books; Katherine Ryan memoir, The Audacity, to Doubleday Canada

Daily Deals: Britt Wray’s Generation Dread to Knopf Canada

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