Key Porter Books publisher Jordan Fenn has acquired a new memoir by former Toronto chief of police Julian Fantino. Duty: The Life of a Cop, co-written by Jerry Amernic, is being billed as a “brutally ... Read More »

Doubleday Canada executive editor Martha Kanya-Forstner has purchased Canadian rights to a new debut novel by Struan Sinclair. Automatic World draws together elements of gothic and science fiction in a tale told by four narrators, ... Read More »

Goose Lane Editions editorial director Bethany Gibson has taken on a first novel by Libby Creelman, author of the 2000 short story collection Walking in Paradise. The Darren Effect, set in modern-day St. John’s, relates ... Read More »

Rob Sanders, publisher of Greystone Books, has just taken on Canadian rights to a new eco-memoir by James Glave, the former editor of Outside magazine. Almost Green documents Glave’s mostly failed attempts to live in ... Read More »

McClelland & Stewart senior editor Jennifer Lambert has purchased Canadian rights to a new non-fiction title by Emily White. The Empty Room is about “the under-examined affliction” of loneliness, and according to M&S it will ... Read More »

Samantha Haywood of the Transatlantic Literary Agency has sold North American rights to Florin Diacu’s Predicting Mega-Disasters to Princeton University Press, and U.K. Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) to Oxford University Press. Suzanne Brandreth of the ... Read More »