by Ryan Porter

Daily Deals: Nina Berkhout’s second novel to ECW; Melville House acquires international English rights to Alicia Elliott collection

ECW Press’s senior editor Jen Knoch has acquired world rights to Nina Berkhout’s Why Birds Sing. Berkhout’s second adult novel is about a disillusioned opera singer who finds her way back to music and human ... Read More »

December 2, 2019

Martha Sharpe’s Flying Books enters publishing with editorial director Emily M. Keeler

By Ryan Porter

Martha Sharpe and Emily M. Keeler first talked books in 2014, when Sharpe was editorial director at Simon & Schuster Canada and Keeler was the newly appointed books editor at the National Post. That first ... Read More »

December 2, 2019

Iron Dog Books, B.C.’s bookstore on wheels, finds a permanent parking spot with brick-and-mortar shop

By Ryan Porter

Hilary Atleo has grown accustomed to people squealing with delight when they see her B.C. bookmobile Iron Dog Books. “This is magical!” they tell her. “It looks like it drove out of Harry Potter!” After ... Read More »

November 28, 2019

Daily Deal: Swedish rights sold to father-son trans memoir Soar, Adam, Soar

By Ryan Porter

Ehrlin Publishing AB publishing manager Kevin Shearman has acquired Swedish rights to Rick Prashaw’s Soar, Adam, Soar. The memoir tells the story of Rick’s son Adam Prashaw’s gender journey and how he ultimately came to live ... Read More »

November 28, 2019

Daily Deal: German rights sold for Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms: 20th Anniversary Edition

By Ryan Porter

Cass Verlag managing editor Katja Cassing has acquired world German language rights to Hiromi Goto’s novel Chorus of Mushrooms: 20th Anniversary Edition. The reprinting of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book includes an extensive ... Read More »

November 27, 2019

Distribution change: Baraka Books

By Ryan Porter

Effective Jan. 1, 2020, Baraka Books, including the QC Fiction imprint, will ... Read More »

November 25, 2019

Bedside Press abruptly shuttered amid misconduct allegations

By Ryan Porter

Bedside Press founder Hope Nicholson on Sunday abruptly announced she would be closing her Winnipeg-based small press. In a Facebook post, Bedside stressed that they were seeking new publishers to take over in-development 2020 titles ... Read More »

November 25, 2019

Daily Deals: Taras Grescoe book about traditional food to Greystone

By Ryan Porter

Greystone Books has acquired Taras Grescoe’s The Lost Supper. The book looks at the future of food through looking to the past. Publication is set for 2022. The deal was arranged by Michelle Tessler at ... Read More »

November 25, 2019

Daily Deal: M&S acquires two books from Journey Prize winner Shashi Bhat

By Ryan Porter

McClelland & Stewart senior editor Anita Chong has acquired two books at auction by Journey Prize–winning writer Shashi Bhat. The Most Precious Substance on Earth, a novel about the subtle ways in which women are ... Read More »

November 22, 2019

RBC Taylor Prize to be awarded for the last time in 2020

By Ryan Porter

The $30,000 RBC Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction will be discontinued in 2020, it was announced on Nov. 21. Noreen Taylor founded the prize in 2000 to honour her late husband Charles Taylor, and to ... Read More »

November 21, 2019

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Daily Deals: Nina Berkhout’s second novel to ECW; Melville House acquires international English rights to Alicia Elliott collection

Martha Sharpe’s Flying Books enters publishing with editorial director Emily M. Keeler

Iron Dog Books, B.C.’s bookstore on wheels, finds a permanent parking spot with brick-and-mortar shop

Daily Deal: Swedish rights sold to father-son trans memoir Soar, Adam, Soar

Daily Deal: German rights sold for Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms: 20th Anniversary Edition

Distribution change: Baraka Books

Bedside Press abruptly shuttered amid misconduct allegations

Daily Deals: Taras Grescoe book about traditional food to Greystone

Daily Deal: M&S acquires two books from Journey Prize winner Shashi Bhat

RBC Taylor Prize to be awarded for the last time in 2020

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