by Ryan Porter

Daily Deals: Ian Williams’s Giller-winning novel Reproduction sells U.K. rights to Little, Brown

Dialogue Books/Little, Brown UK publisher Sharmaine Lovegrove has acquired U.K. rights to Ian Williams’s 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novel Reproduction. Publication is expected for June 2020. The deal was arranged by Bill Hamilton at A.M. ... Read More »

November 21, 2019

Daily Deals: Greystone Kids acquires picture book Little Narwhal; Dundurn picks up pair of novels for young people

By Ryan Porter

Greystone Kids’s Kallie George has acquired world rights to Tiffany Stone’s Little Narwhal. The picture book, illustrated by Ashlyn Anstee, is based on the true story of a narwhal adopted by a pod of beluga ... Read More »

November 18, 2019

Heather O’Neill receives 2019 Writers’ Trust Fellowship

By Ryan Porter

Heather O’Neill has been named the recipient of the $50,000 2019 Writers’ Trust Fellowship. The announcement was made at the Writers’ Trust Gala in Toronto on Nov. 14. The Fellowship is intended to celebrate a ... Read More »

November 14, 2019

Julia Lovell’s Maoism: A Global History wins $100,000 2019 Cundill History Prize

By Ryan Porter

Julia Lovell’s Maoism: A Global History has won the Cundill History Prize. The nearly $100,000 prize ($75,000 U.S.), administered by McGill University, is awarded to the best English-language history writing. Lovell is a British writer ... Read More »

November 14, 2019

Daily Deals: Greystone Kids acquires book about mindfulness for kids

By Ryan Porter

Greystone Kids's Kallie George has acquired world rights to Shoshana Chaim's I’m a Peaceful Goldfish in a two-book deal. Lori Joy Smith will illustrate this book about mindfulness for kids, which teaches them to take calming breaths ... Read More »

November 14, 2019

Ian Kinney

By Ryan Porter

Ian Kinney’s debut collection of poetry mines found sources to explore a devastating accident and its aftermath

November 14, 2019

Penguin Random House Canada is feeding the appetite for true-crime podcasts with stories found on its own lists

By Ryan Porter

What cases might an amateur detective be secretly tackling in the privacy of their own headphones? Even at a time when water-cooler sagas such as Serial or Making a Murderer aren’t in the forefront of ... Read More »

November 14, 2019

Address change: Curiosity House Books

By Ryan Porter

As of mid-November, Curiosity House Books will have a new location ... Read More »

November 12, 2019

Personnel change: UBC Press

By Ryan Porter

Gerilee McBride has recently joined UBC Press in the role of advertising and promotions manager. Previously, McBride ... Read More »

November 11, 2019

Queer Film Classics series to continue with McGill-Queen’s University Press

By Ryan Porter

Seven months after publishing the final Queer Film Classics volume with Arsenal Pulp Press, R.L. Cagle’s book on Scorpio Rising, editors Matthew Hays and Thomas Waugh have announced the series will be revived. McGill-Queen’s University ... Read More »

November 11, 2019

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Daily Deals: Ian Williams’s Giller-winning novel Reproduction sells U.K. rights to Little, Brown

Daily Deals: Greystone Kids acquires picture book Little Narwhal; Dundurn picks up pair of novels for young people

Heather O’Neill receives 2019 Writers’ Trust Fellowship

Julia Lovell’s Maoism: A Global History wins $100,000 2019 Cundill History Prize

Daily Deals: Greystone Kids acquires book about mindfulness for kids

Ian Kinney

Penguin Random House Canada is feeding the appetite for true-crime podcasts with stories found on its own lists

Address change: Curiosity House Books

Personnel change: UBC Press

Queer Film Classics series to continue with McGill-Queen’s University Press

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