by Ryan Porter

Academic presses navigate “watershed moment” for digital texts

Along with Zoom, TikTok, Houseparty, and Purell, Canada’s Top Hat virtual courseware platform has received unprecedented interest amid the havoc wreaked by COVID-19. As post-secondary schools in North America largely move online for fall, inquiries ... Read More »

August 17, 2020

Daily Deals: Michelle Wamboldt’s debut historical fiction, inspired by her grandmother’s life, to Vagrant

By Ryan Porter

Vagrant Press managing editor Whitney Moran has acquired world rights to Nova Scotia–based Michelle Wamboldt’s debut novel, The Birth Road. The novel, inspired by the author’s grandmother’s life, is about a young woman who leaves behind ... Read More »

August 17, 2020

Director Ross Manson on André Alexis’s new pandemic-themed audiodrama trilogy

By Ryan Porter

At the height of the COVID-19 lockdown, André Alexis found inspiration. Over the summer, he wrote three monologues from the perspective of people living in a pandemic in Toronto. The result is Metamorphosis: a Viral ... Read More »

August 13, 2020

Daily Deals: Random House acquires memoir by Gambian pageant winner who survived sexual assault

By Ryan Porter

Random House’s Anne Collins has acquired English-language Canadian rights to Toufah Jallow’s Toufah: the Pageant, the President, and the Woman Who Inspired an African #MeToo Movement in an exclusive submission. Writing with Kim Pittaway, the ... Read More »

August 13, 2020

Daily Deals: Uzma Jalaluddin’s new romance to HarperCollins Canada in two-book deal

By Ryan Porter

HarperCollins Canada’s senior editorial director Jennifer Lambert has acquired world English rights to Uzma Jalaluddin’s Hana Khan Carries On as part of a two-book deal. The book is described as You've Got Mail set in ... Read More »

August 10, 2020

Bestsellers: BLM essay collection Until We Are Free resonates amidst civil-rights revolution

By Ryan Porter

As calls to dismantle systemic anti-Black racism hit a global boiling point, books by Black Canadian writers shot to the top of Bookmanager’s Canadiana chart. The essay collection Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black ... Read More »

August 10, 2020

Surreal trailer drops for adaptation of Iain Reid’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things

By Ryan Porter

The trailer for Charlie Kaufman’s film adaptation of Iain Reid’s 2016 novel I’m Thinking of Ending Things has been released by Netflix. The book by the Kingston, Ontario, writer is about a woman who goes ... Read More »

August 10, 2020

Publishing scholarship in honour of the late Greg Younging to be offered at SFU

By Ryan Porter

The late publisher Gregory Younging will be honoured with a scholarship in his name. Endowed by the Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia and the publishing program at Simon Fraser University, the Greg Younging ... Read More »

August 10, 2020

FOLD Kids announces quarterly book club

By Ryan Porter

FOLD Kids, the young readers’ edition of the Brampton, Ontario, Festival of Literary Diversity, will begin hosting a quarterly book club to encourage kids to read diverse books all year round. The first book in ... Read More »

August 10, 2020

Daily Deals: Strange Light acquires two boundary-pushing titles; Alison Hughes’s middle-grade novel to Running Press

By Ryan Porter

Strange Light editors Jordan Ginsberg and Haley Cullingham have acquired two titles. Cullingham has acquired world rights to writer Andrea Werhun and photographer Nicole Bazuin’s Modern Whore. The experimental memoir of escorting and stripping features ... Read More »

August 6, 2020

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Academic presses navigate “watershed moment” for digital texts

Daily Deals: Michelle Wamboldt’s debut historical fiction, inspired by her grandmother’s life, to Vagrant

Director Ross Manson on André Alexis’s new pandemic-themed audiodrama trilogy

Daily Deals: Random House acquires memoir by Gambian pageant winner who survived sexual assault

Daily Deals: Uzma Jalaluddin’s new romance to HarperCollins Canada in two-book deal

Bestsellers: BLM essay collection Until We Are Free resonates amidst civil-rights revolution

Surreal trailer drops for adaptation of Iain Reid’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Publishing scholarship in honour of the late Greg Younging to be offered at SFU

FOLD Kids announces quarterly book club

Daily Deals: Strange Light acquires two boundary-pushing titles; Alison Hughes’s middle-grade novel to Running Press

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