by Ryan Porter

Daily Deals: Kathleen Peacock YA thriller to HarperTeen, The Porcupine’s Quill acquires two new works of fiction, and ECW nabs thriller set at TIFF

HarperTeen’s Catherine Wallace has acquired North American rights to Kathleen Peacock’s You Were Never Here. The YA psychological thriller is about a 17-year-old girl with an unusual ability who must decide whether to use her ... Read More »

December 16, 2019

Daily deals: Renegade Arts signs two new graphic novels

By Ryan Porter

Renegade Arts Entertainment has acquired Jarret Hartnell’s debut graphic novel, Shout, Kill, Revel. The book is about a woman with dangerous powers in a Lovecraft-inspired dystopian Canada. Publication is expected for fall 2021. Renegade Arts Entertainment ... Read More »

December 13, 2019

Daily Deals: Science-fiction novel from Robert J. Sawyer to Fitz & Whits

By Ryan Porter

Fitzhenry & Whiteside has acquired Robert J. Sawyer’s 24th novel, The Oppenheimer Alternative, for its Red Deer Press imprint. The science-fiction novel tells an alternate history of the Manhattan Project era in which J. Robert Oppenheimer, Edward ... Read More »

December 9, 2019

What holiday shoppers are buying at specialty bookstores across Canada

By Ryan Porter

What do you get the book fan that already has The Testaments? Apparently The Handmaid’s Tale. Dystopian Atwood continues to reign on the bestseller lists as publishing enters the crucial holiday crunch. But outside the ... Read More »

December 9, 2019

Wattpad to open second Canadian office in Halifax

By Ryan Porter

Wattpad will open a second headquarters in Halifax in early 2020, the Canadian tech company announced on Dec. 9. The social-reading platform’s “HQ2” will be located in the city’s Volta Innovation Hub and will carry ... Read More »

December 9, 2019

Owners of Someday Books won their new bookstore’s rent for a year

By Ryan Porter

Elysia French and Graham Thompson were living in Kingston, Ontario, where French was finishing her PhD at Queen’s University, when they got the news: the couple had won free rent for a year on a ... Read More »

December 5, 2019

Daily Deals: Riel Nason and Byron Eggenschwiler’s new Halloween-themed picture book to Tundra; Drawn & Quarterly announces international language deals

By Ryan Porter

Tundra Books’s Samantha Swenson has acquired world rights to Riel Nason’s The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt. The picture book about a ghost whose unusual fabric excludes him from typical ghostly fun will be illustrated ... Read More »

December 5, 2019

Personnel change: Douglas & McIntyre

By Ryan Porter

Effective Dec. 1, Anna Comfort O'Keeffe has taken on the role of publisher at Douglas & McIntyre. D&M publisher ... Read More »

December 5, 2019

Robyn Doolittle, Ted Barris included on final Taylor Prize longlist

By Ryan Porter

The longlist for the final RBC Taylor Prize was announced this morning and contains high-profile titles from Robyn Doolittle, Jessica McDiarmid, and veteran military historian Ted Barris, as well as powerful debuts from Samra Habib ... Read More »

December 4, 2019

Personnel change: Read + Co Books

By Ryan Porter

Bridget Clark has joined Read + Co Books for publisher representation in B.C., Alberta, and the North. Clark will be focusing on the gift market. She previously worked as sales manager on chain, book, and ... Read More »

December 2, 2019

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Daily Deals: Kathleen Peacock YA thriller to HarperTeen, The Porcupine’s Quill acquires two new works of fiction, and ECW nabs thriller set at TIFF

Daily deals: Renegade Arts signs two new graphic novels

Daily Deals: Science-fiction novel from Robert J. Sawyer to Fitz & Whits

What holiday shoppers are buying at specialty bookstores across Canada

Wattpad to open second Canadian office in Halifax

Owners of Someday Books won their new bookstore’s rent for a year

Daily Deals: Riel Nason and Byron Eggenschwiler’s new Halloween-themed picture book to Tundra; Drawn & Quarterly announces international language deals

Personnel change: Douglas & McIntyre

Robyn Doolittle, Ted Barris included on final Taylor Prize longlist

Personnel change: Read + Co Books

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