by Q&Q Staff

Personnel change: Transatlantic Agency

Léonicka Valcius has been promoted to literary agent at Transatlantic Agency. Her client list includes Yejide Kilanko, Sonnet L'Abbé, Hadiya Roderique, and Kai Cheng Thom. Valcius joined the company in 2018 as associate agent. Before ... Read More »

January 14, 2021

Daily Deals: Random House acquires Paul Palango’s Nova Scotia mass-shooting investigation

By Q&Q Staff

Random House Canada’s Craig Pyette has acquired world rights to Paul Palango’s 22 Murders. The book is about the April 2020 shooting spree in Nova Scotia, the failures that led up the murders, and the ... Read More »

January 14, 2021

2021 Spring Preview: Non-fiction

By Q&Q Staff

Titles that inspire, educate, and entertain. NON-FICTION A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin Leanne Betasamosake Simpson University of Alberta Press, Feb. The power the beaver claims by building ... Read More »

January 14, 2021

Daily Deals: Journey Prize-winner Jessica Johns’s debut novel Bad Cree to HarperCollins

By Q&Q Staff

Canadian English rights to Jessica Johns’s debut novel Bad Cree, adapted from the short story of the same name, have been sold at auction to Aeman Ansari in her first acquisition at HarperCollinsCanada. The novel is about Mackenzie, who ... Read More »

January 11, 2021

2021 Spring Preview: Fiction

By Q&Q Staff

Escape from the real world with the season’s most provocative novels, short stories, and poetry THE CULT FAVOURITE Damages: Selected Stories 1982–2012 Keath Fraser Biblioasis, May Charity: A Novella Keath Fraser Biblioasis, Jan. Vancouver writer ... Read More »

January 11, 2021

Daily Deals: Mark Abley travelogue acquired by Bruce Walsh for Anansi

By Q&Q Staff

House of Anansi Press publisher Bruce Walsh has acquired world rights to Mark Abley’s Ali Baba Gust House. The book is about Abley's journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978 and the political, environmental, and ... Read More »

January 7, 2021

Personnel change: Westwood Creative Artists

By Q&Q Staff

Max Alexandre has joined Westwood Creative Artists as literary and podcast agent. Prior to his role as co-founder and CEO ... Read More »

January 7, 2021

Personnel change: The Rights Factory

By Q&Q Staff

Tasneem Motala has joined The Rights Factory as an assistant agent, building a list of character-driven middle-grade and YA fiction by BIPOC authors. She was previously an editorial assistant at the agency and is the ... Read More »

January 7, 2021

Daily Deals: M&S acquires lesbian detective adaptation Work for a Million: The Graphic Novel

By Q&Q Staff

McClelland & Stewart’s publisher Jared Bland and managing editor Kimberlee Hesas have acquired world English print rights to Amanda Deibert and Eve Zaremba’s Work for a Million: The Graphic Novel. Illustrated by Selena Goulding, the ... Read More »

January 4, 2021

What three CanLit leaders read in 2020

By Q&Q Staff

With independent bookstores at some stage of lockdown for much of 2020, readers missed out on the delight of discovery that comes from browsing their local shelves. Q&Q wanted to replicate that experience in our ... Read More »

December 21, 2020

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Personnel change: Transatlantic Agency

Daily Deals: Random House acquires Paul Palango’s Nova Scotia mass-shooting investigation

2021 Spring Preview: Non-fiction

Daily Deals: Journey Prize-winner Jessica Johns’s debut novel Bad Cree to HarperCollins

2021 Spring Preview: Fiction

Daily Deals: Mark Abley travelogue acquired by Bruce Walsh for Anansi

Personnel change: Westwood Creative Artists

Personnel change: The Rights Factory

Daily Deals: M&S acquires lesbian detective adaptation Work for a Million: The Graphic Novel

What three CanLit leaders read in 2020

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