Agent Amy Moore-Benson has sold world rights to a new thriller by Rick Mofina to MIRA Books, a commercial fiction imprint of Harlequin U.S. Hour of Death is about a desperate mother’s search for her ... Read More »

Agent Rick Broadhead has sold Canadian rights to two books by Toronto-based naturopathic doctor Natasha Turner to Random House Canada editor Stacey Cameron. The first book, The Hormone Diet, offers a holistic approach to regulating ... Read More »

Penguin Canada editor Barbara Berson has acquired world rights to a new children’s novel by Kit Pearson. A Perfect Gentle Knight is about an 11-year-old girl who tries to cope with loss and loneliness by ... Read More »

Penguin Canada editorial director Diane Turbide has purchased Canadian rights to a new historical work by Timothy Brook. In Vermeer’s Hat: The 17th Century and the Dawn of the Global World, Brook uses several key ... Read More »

Penguin Canada editorial director Andrea Crozier has purchased Canadian rights to a new non-fiction science title by Brian Clegg. The Global Warming Survival Kit is a practical guide to “living through the tumultuous impact of ... Read More »

John Wiley & Sons Canada editor Karen Milner has acquired a memoir entitled The Water Boy, by B.C. Lions president and CEO Bob Ackles. Written with author and Vancouver Sun columnist Ian Mulgrew, the book ... Read More »

Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster U.S., has just acquired North American rights to a new non-fiction work by the Canadian writing team of David Cruise and Alison Griffiths. Chasing Freedom: Wild Horse Annie ... Read More »

Thomas Allen Publishers senior editor Janice Zawerbny and publisher Patrick Crean have purchased Canadian rights to a new science title by journalist Sheilla Jones, entitled The Quantum Ten and the Birth of a Troubled Science. ... Read More »