by Ryan Porter

Daily Deal: Alicia Elliott, Jenny Heijun Wills, Kamal Al-Solaylee to contribute to Book*hug Press anthology on language

Book*hug Press’s Jay MillAr and Hazel Millar have acquired world rights to Tongues: An Anthology on Longing and Belonging through Language. The collection of creative non-fiction essays, published as part of the publisher’s Essais Series, ... Read More »

March 2, 2020

Shaftesbury options Steve Burrows’s “Birder Murder Mysteries” series

By Ryan Porter

A new detective is set to join the Shaftesbury roster. The Toronto production company behind Murdoch Mysteries and Frankie Drake Mysteries has optioned Oshawa, Ontario, writer Steve Burrows’s Birder Murder Mysteries series for television. The ... Read More »

March 2, 2020

Daily Deals: 19 international rights sales for Transatlantic Agency

By Ryan Porter

Stephanie Sinclair at the Transatlantic Agency has completed 19 international rights sales on behalf of Page Two in association with the agencies listed below: Azoth has acquired at auction Complex Chinese rights to John Stepper's Working ... Read More »

February 28, 2020

Canadian publisher cancels London Book Fair appearance over coronavirus

By Ryan Porter

Simon & Schuster Canada has confirmed it won’t be attending the London Book Fair. The announcement comes on the heels of the publisher’s parent company announcing it will not attend the hub of international publishing ... Read More »

February 28, 2020

Former Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment CEO to open bookstore near Windsor

By Ryan Porter

Richard Peddie, the former president and CEO of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment from 1998 through 2011, has announced he will open a new bookstore in Amherstburg, Ontario, this summer. Located 30 km south of ... Read More »

February 28, 2020

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Room, Emma Donoghue says all novelists can be screenwriters

By Ryan Porter

It’s been 10 years since Emma Donoghue published her novel Room, a bestseller about a child born into a one-room prison, where he lives with his mother, unaware of the world outside. The Irish-Canadian author, ... Read More »

February 28, 2020

Fawn Parker launches agency to champion literary fiction, poetry

By Ryan Porter

While querying Canadian agents as an author, Fawn Parker was confounded by the lack of appetite for edgy literary fiction. “All the big books coming out of New York are these amazing contemporary novels,” she ... Read More »

February 28, 2020

Daily Deals: Annabel Lyon’s new novel Consent to Random House Canada

By Ryan Porter

Knopf Random Canada Publishing Group publisher Anne Collins has acquired Annabel Lyon’s new novel Consent for the Random House Canada imprint. The book is about two sets of sisters whose lives are braided together when ... Read More »

February 27, 2020

KidLit Special: Tom Ryan and Robin Stevenson talk teaming up on a distinctly Canadian YA novel

By Ryan Porter

Tom Ryan and Robin Stevenson have been friends since 2010, when Ryan was a student in Stevenson’s writing class at the University of Victoria. Their easy camaraderie is evident in the way they hatched their ... Read More »

February 27, 2020

Daily Deals: Ho Che Anderson graphic novel The Resurrectionists to Megascope

By Ryan Porter

Megascope’s John Jennings and Charlotte Greenbaum have acquired world rights to Ho Che Anderson’s new graphic novel The Resurrectionists. The author/illustrator tells the story of a young woman in 1870s New York City who joins ... Read More »

February 24, 2020

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Daily Deal: Alicia Elliott, Jenny Heijun Wills, Kamal Al-Solaylee to contribute to Book*hug Press anthology on language

Shaftesbury options Steve Burrows’s “Birder Murder Mysteries” series

Daily Deals: 19 international rights sales for Transatlantic Agency

Canadian publisher cancels London Book Fair appearance over coronavirus

Former Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment CEO to open bookstore near Windsor

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Room, Emma Donoghue says all novelists can be screenwriters

Fawn Parker launches agency to champion literary fiction, poetry

Daily Deals: Annabel Lyon’s new novel Consent to Random House Canada

KidLit Special: Tom Ryan and Robin Stevenson talk teaming up on a distinctly Canadian YA novel

Daily Deals: Ho Che Anderson graphic novel The Resurrectionists to Megascope

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