by Ryan Porter

Personnel change: Westwood Creative Artists

Bruce Westwood, founder and CEO of Westwood Creative Artists, has announced the formation of the WCA Management Committee. The committee is comprised of president Jackie Kaiser, executive vice-president and chief financial officer Hilary McMahon, chairman ... Read More »

August 6, 2020

Daily Deals: NYT contributor Amitha Kalaichandran’s first book to Random House

By Ryan Porter

Random House Canada’s Craig Pyette and Anne Collins have acquired world rights to Amitha Kalaichandran’s On Healing. The book will address the nature of healing through science, reportage, and personal reflections. The deal was arranged ... Read More »

August 4, 2020

Daily Deals: Jane Gerster’s investigation of the RCMP to M&S

By Ryan Porter

McClelland & Stewart’s Jordan Ginsberg has acquired world rights to Jane Gerster’s For the Good of the Force in a two-book deal. The book will be an investigation into the history of racism, misogyny, and ... Read More »

July 30, 2020

Canada finally has a booksellers’ association again

By Ryan Porter

A council of 12 booksellers have formed a new association for independent bookstores. The Canadian Independent Booksellers Association plans to release more details of their plans over the next six weeks. The previous industry board, ... Read More »

July 30, 2020

Film adaptations of Indigenous bestsellers The Inconvenient Indian, the Trickster series to premiere at TIFF

By Ryan Porter

Film adaptations of two Canadian Indigenous bestsellers will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Michelle Latimer directs Inconvenient Indian, a documentary based on Thomas King’s 2012 work about the colonization of Indigenous people in ... Read More »

July 30, 2020

Daily Deals: Julie Flett to illustrate Buffy Sainte-Marie picture book; two new picture books from King Mouse illustrator Dena Seiferling

By Ryan Porter

Greystone Kids’s Kallie George has acquired world rights to Buffy Sainte-Marie and Julie Flett’s Still This Love Goes On and On. The picture book will be based on Sainte-Marie’s song celebrating tradition, seasons, place, and ... Read More »

July 29, 2020

Indigenous justice, international relations among topics explored in shortlisted Shaughnessy Cohen titles

By Ryan Porter

Canadian justice, international relations, and Indigenous rights are among the topics explored – often simultaneously – in the five books shortlisted for the Writers’ Trust’s 20th annual Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. The $25,000 ... Read More »

July 29, 2020

Daily Deals: M&S acquires family memoir from Morgan Campbell; Jowita Bydlowska novel to Dundurn

By Ryan Porter

McClelland & Stewart’s Scott Sellers and Jordan Ginsberg have acquired North American rights to sports writer Morgan Campbell’s family memoir. The book focuses on his family’s move from segregated Chicago to Canada in the 1960s, ... Read More »

July 27, 2020

Mariko Tamaki’s graphic novel Laura Dean wins three Eisner Awards

By Ryan Porter

Canadian graphic novelist Mariko Tamaki won Best Writer and Best Publication for Teens at the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards on July 24. Tamaki won the writing award based on her 2019 work on the ... Read More »

July 27, 2020

Daily Deals: André Picard’s book on caring for Canada’s elders to Random House Canada

By Ryan Porter

Random House Canada’s Anne Collins has acquired Canadian English rights to Globe and Mail health reporter and columnist André Picard’s Time to Care: A Prescription for Improving the Lives of Canada’s Elders. Publication is expected for ... Read More »

July 23, 2020

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Personnel change: Westwood Creative Artists

Daily Deals: NYT contributor Amitha Kalaichandran’s first book to Random House

Daily Deals: Jane Gerster’s investigation of the RCMP to M&S

Canada finally has a booksellers’ association again

Film adaptations of Indigenous bestsellers The Inconvenient Indian, the Trickster series to premiere at TIFF

Daily Deals: Julie Flett to illustrate Buffy Sainte-Marie picture book; two new picture books from King Mouse illustrator Dena Seiferling

Indigenous justice, international relations among topics explored in shortlisted Shaughnessy Cohen titles

Daily Deals: M&S acquires family memoir from Morgan Campbell; Jowita Bydlowska novel to Dundurn

Mariko Tamaki’s graphic novel Laura Dean wins three Eisner Awards

Daily Deals: André Picard’s book on caring for Canada’s elders to Random House Canada

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