Orca Book Publishing has acquired world rights to William Kowalski’s The Innocence Device, the author’s fifth title in Orca’s Rapid Reads series of short fiction for low-literacy adult readers. Shaun Bradley of the Transatlantic Agency ... Read More »

Penguin Canada publishing director Diane Turbide has acquired “a book containing shocking new revelations about Toronto mayor Rob Ford” by Toronto Star reporter Robyn Doolittle. Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story will be published under the Viking Canada ... Read More »

Patrick Crean, publisher of the HarperCollins Canada imprint Patrick Crean Editions, has acquired Elyse Friedman’s The Answer to Everything, about the misanthropic founder of a pseudo-religious cult called The Answer Institute. Jackie Kaiser of Westwood Creative ... Read More »