Doubleday Canada editorial director Martha Kanya-Fostner has purchased Canadian rights to two new titles by debut author Anthony De Sa. The first, due out in spring 2008, is a short story collection called Barnacle Love, ... Read More »
September 28, 2006
The Canadian Children’s Book Centre put art and authors on the auction block this past Tuesday night for its "Take Home an Original" fundraising event. Charlotte Teeple, executive director of the Centre, says that nearly ... Read More »
September 28, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
This weekend, the hotspot for CanLit is the small, ancient town of Vincennes, just on the edge of Paris. Canada is the featured country at Festival America, where organizers are gathering 60 writers together, including ... Read More »
September 28, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
Restructuring at Kids Can Press this week has resulted in the elimination of two high-level positions. Gone are Barbara Howson, vice-president of rights and licensing, and Robin Tameshtit, vice-president of marketing.Judy Brunsek, Kids Can’s vice-president ... Read More »
September 28, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
Toronto is staying up all night this Saturday night, and two authors, each named Emily, will be adding literary flavours to an event organizers are billing as “a free, all-night contemporary art thing.” Sponsored by ... Read More »
September 28, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
McClelland & Stewart editor Ellen Seligman has just acquired Canadian rights to memoirist and poet Patrick Lane’s first work of fiction. At the moment, Red Dog, Red Dog is simply being described as William Faulkner ... Read More »
September 27, 2006
Random House Canada publisher Anne Collins and editor Stacey Cameron have just acquired Canadian rights to The Anti-Oxidant Prescription, a health book by Toronto-based homeopathic doctor and functional medicine nutritionist Bryce Wylde. The deal, which ... Read More »
September 27, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
Suzanne Brandreth, director of subsidiary rights at the Cooke Agency, has sold world rights to a new non-fiction children’s title to Maple Tree Press publisher Sheba Meland. The self-explanatory Goofy Science, by Helaine Becker, is ... Read More »
September 27, 2006
Kids Can Press rights associate Eva Svec has sold Portuguese rights to all three titles in Clem Martini’s Crow Chronicles Trilogy to Quidnovi. Meanwhile, fellow rights associate Anna Cundari has sold German rights to Howard ... Read More »
September 27, 2006
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