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Wilfrid Laurier University Press announces academic podcasting network Amplify

Wilfrid Laurier University Press will launch an academic podcasting network, the publisher has announced. In partnership with the School of Publishing at Simon Fraser University, the network will present scholarly research that is held to ... Read More »

July 23, 2020

Samra Habib wins 2020 Canada Reads competition

By Ryan Porter

Samra Habib’s debut book We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir has won the CBC's 2020 Canada Reads competition. The story of Habib’s immigration to Canada from Pakistan, arranged marriage as a teenager, ... Read More »

July 23, 2020

Daily Deals: Greystone Kids acquires illustrated poetry collection from Rina Singh, Crooked Lane to publish debut thriller by Jessica Hamilton

By Ryan Porter

Greystone Kids’s Kallie George has acquired world rights to Rina Singh’s A Garden of Grenades and Other Stories. The collection of poems about love, courage, and compassion, illustrated by Iranian cut-paper artist Hoda Hadidi, celebrates ... Read More »

July 21, 2020

Biblioasis announces new topical non-fiction series Field Notes

By Ryan Porter

Against the backdrop of 2020's unrelenting news cycle, Biblioasis is launching the Field Notes series. The works of topical non-fiction will launch with four titles, each under 200 pages, to be published this fall and ... Read More »

July 21, 2020

Daily Deals: Cherie Dimaline’s Empire of Wild to Weidenfeld & Nicolson for U.K., Commonwealth English rights

By Ryan Porter

Weidenfeld & Nicolson editorial director Federico Andornino has acquired U.K. & Commonwealth English rights, excluding Canada, to Cherie Dimaline’s Empire of Wild. Canadian English rights were acquired by Anne Collins at Random House Canada, U.S. ... Read More »

July 20, 2020

Daily Deals: Ian Williams’s non-fiction collection on the Black experience to Random House Canada

By Ryan Porter

Random House Canada publisher Anne Collins has acquired, in a pre-empt, Canadian rights to Ian Williams’s Disorientation: The Experience of Being Black in the World.* The non-fiction collection will include reflections on the Black experience. ... Read More »

July 18, 2020

Personnel change: Pajama Press

By Ryan Porter

Effective immediately, Laura Bowman will provide sales representation to Ontario trade and wholesale accounts for Pajama Press. Louis Anctil Agency will provide sales representation to the rest of the Canadian trade and wholesale accounts for ... Read More »

July 16, 2020

Daily Deals: Dundurn acquires The Age of Fentanyl author’s follow-up; thriller Blindshot optioned for TV

By Ryan Porter

Dundurn Press associate publisher Kathryn Lane has acquired world rights, including film and audio, to Brodie Ramin’s The Perfect Medicine. The new book by the author of The Age of Fentanyl traces the evolution of ... Read More »

July 15, 2020

Daily Deals: Tomson Highway memoir to Doubleday; Carrianne Leung’s second novel to HarperCollins Canada

By Ryan Porter

Doubleday Canada’s Martha Kanya-Forstner has acquired Tomson Highway’s memoir Permanent Astonishment. The book is described as an intimate, deeply personal book celebrating Highway’s birthplace in northern Manitoba where it meets Saskatchewan, the Northwest Territories, and ... Read More »

July 13, 2020

Distribution change: Common Deer Press

By Ryan Porter

Effective immediately, National Book Network Canada will become the Canadian distributor for all ... Read More »

July 13, 2020

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Wilfrid Laurier University Press announces academic podcasting network Amplify

Samra Habib wins 2020 Canada Reads competition

Daily Deals: Greystone Kids acquires illustrated poetry collection from Rina Singh, Crooked Lane to publish debut thriller by Jessica Hamilton

Biblioasis announces new topical non-fiction series Field Notes

Daily Deals: Cherie Dimaline’s Empire of Wild to Weidenfeld & Nicolson for U.K., Commonwealth English rights

Daily Deals: Ian Williams’s non-fiction collection on the Black experience to Random House Canada

Personnel change: Pajama Press

Daily Deals: Dundurn acquires The Age of Fentanyl author’s follow-up; thriller Blindshot optioned for TV

Daily Deals: Tomson Highway memoir to Doubleday; Carrianne Leung’s second novel to HarperCollins Canada

Distribution change: Common Deer Press

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