by Ryan Porter

Daily Deals: Greystone acquires narrative non-fiction about Canada’s vulnerable Indigenous women and girls

Greystone Books’s Jennifer Croll has acquired world English rights to award-winning journalist Angela Sterritt's Unbroken. The narrative non-fiction debut follows Sterritt’s story of growing up as a young mixed-heritage Gitxsan woman surviving abuse and violence on ... Read More »

May 21, 2020

Q&A: First-time children’s book author Buffy Sainte-Marie on the joy of pet adoption

By Ryan Porter

When Buffy Sainte-Marie welcomed Siamese kittens Penuche (named for the fudge) and Anderson Cooper (named for the, well, you know) last year, the legendary singer gave them her traditional furbaby welcome: serenading them with her ... Read More »

May 21, 2020

Daily Deals: Signal acquires journalist Ethan Lou’s global pandemic diary

By Ryan Porter

Signal Books’s Doug Pepper has acquired world rights to Ethan Lou’s Field Notes from a Pandemic: A Journey Through a World Suspended. The book is based on the journalist's travels through China, Germany, and North ... Read More »

May 19, 2020

Kaie Kellough wins 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize

By Ryan Porter

Montreal poet Kaie Kellough's third collection, Magnetic Equator (McClelland & Stewart), has won the Canadian category of the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize. American-French poet Sarah Riggs’s English translation of Etel Adnan’s French collection, Time (Nightboat ... Read More »

May 19, 2020

Daily Deals: Scholastic acquires Marsha Skrypuch YA novels set during WWII in two-book deal

By Ryan Porter

Scholastic Canada’s Diane Kerner has acquired world rights to Marsha Skrypuch’s two new historical young-adult novels. Trapped in Hitler’s Web and its sequel centre on the lives of two Ukrainian sisters during and after the ... Read More »

May 14, 2020

Kids Can Press predicts a surge of interest in kids’ non-fiction content as new TV deals announced

By Ryan Porter

Kids Can Press is a familiar player in Canadian children’s television – popular animated series such as Franklin the Turtle and the Whoopi Goldberg–narrated animated short The Most Magnificent Thing are among the publisher’s page-to-screen ... Read More »

May 14, 2020

Julie Andrews chooses Canadian author Kai Cheng Thom’s book for storytelling podcast

By Ryan Porter

Toronto writer Kai Cheng Thom is like the kale of CanLit – celebs are obsessed with her. Following Emma Watson’s endorsement of Thom’s YA novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous ... Read More »

May 14, 2020

Daily Deals: PRHC acquires personal stories from Cody Caetano and Marsha Lederman

By Ryan Porter

Hamish Hamilton’s David Ross has acquired Canadian English rights to Anishinaabe and Portuguese author Cody Caetano’s Half-Bads in White Regalia. The debut memoir is described as a chronicle of a joyful but troubled upbringing shaped ... Read More »

May 12, 2020

HarperCollins offers online resources for connecting with authors and booksellers

By Ryan Porter

The COVID-19 era has required booksellers to get creative. To help connect independent bookstores with readers, HarperCollins Canada has launched a new hub of digital resources, branded HarperPresents… From Home. A directory of events featuring ... Read More »

May 12, 2020

Téa Mutonji, Zalika Reid-Benta, and Seth among finalists for Trillium Book Awards

By Ryan Porter

The shortlist has been announced for the Trillium Book Awards. The prizes recognize literature and poetry in English and in French, written by writers based in Ontario. This year will include the Trillium Book Award ... Read More »

May 12, 2020

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Daily Deals: Greystone acquires narrative non-fiction about Canada’s vulnerable Indigenous women and girls

Q&A: First-time children’s book author Buffy Sainte-Marie on the joy of pet adoption

Daily Deals: Signal acquires journalist Ethan Lou’s global pandemic diary

Kaie Kellough wins 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize

Daily Deals: Scholastic acquires Marsha Skrypuch YA novels set during WWII in two-book deal

Kids Can Press predicts a surge of interest in kids’ non-fiction content as new TV deals announced

Julie Andrews chooses Canadian author Kai Cheng Thom’s book for storytelling podcast

Daily Deals: PRHC acquires personal stories from Cody Caetano and Marsha Lederman

HarperCollins offers online resources for connecting with authors and booksellers

Téa Mutonji, Zalika Reid-Benta, and Seth among finalists for Trillium Book Awards

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