by Ryan Porter

Daily Deals: Kerry Clare’s new novel to Doubleday Canada

Doubleday Canada’s Bhavna Chauhan has acquired North American rights to Kerry Clare’s Waiting for a Star to Fall. The novel is about a young woman whose on-again/off-again boyfriend, a political superstar, is brought down by ... Read More »

September 6, 2019

Daily Deals: Goose Lane Editions to publish Mary Pratt biography; Anansi acquires Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s latest

By Ryan Porter

Goose Lane Editions publisher Susanne Alexander and acquisitions editor Matthew Halliday acquired world rights to Anne Koval’s biography of Mary Pratt. The authorized biography of the late artist includes original interviews with Pratt, her family and ... Read More »

September 5, 2019

Atwood’s The Testaments to be developed for the screen by team behind Handmaid’s Tale TV series

By Ryan Porter

The team behind the Ontario-shot television series The Handmaid’s Tale has announced plans to develop Margaret Atwood’s upcoming sequel as well. Hulu and MGM will develop The Testaments in collaboration with Bruce Miller, showrunner for ... Read More »

September 5, 2019

Illustrator Kathryn Durst on being handpicked by Paul McCartney for his new picture book

By Ryan Porter

Kathryn Durst has gotten used to getting calls out of the blue from Paul McCartney. The Peterborough, Ontario, illustrator was handpicked by the 77-year-old to draw his first picture book Hey Grandude!, about an adventurous grandfather ... Read More »

September 5, 2019

WLU Press to offer free ebooks in support of incarcerated poet Rita Wong

By Ryan Porter

Days after supporters of incarcerated poet Rita Wong gathered to protest her imprisonment, one of her publishers, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, joined the show of support. Wong is currently serving a 28-day sentence at Alouette Correctional ... Read More »

August 29, 2019

Daily Deals: David A. Robertson strikes three-book deal with Puffin; two-book deal with Tundra

By Ryan Porter

Lynne Missen, Penguin Young Readers Group publishing director, has acquired world rights to David A. Robertson’s middle-grade series, The Misewa Saga, in a three-book deal for Puffin Canada. The adventure series, featuring two Indigenous foster ... Read More »

August 28, 2019

How booksellers across Canada are preparing to launch Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments

By Ryan Porter

Though Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments (McClelland & Stewart) has been shrouded in secrecy, there is one thing we know for sure: it’s going to be huge. Sales of the sequel to Atwood’s 1985 classic dystopian novel ... Read More »

August 28, 2019

Daily Deals: Dundurn acquires modern wedding guide; Douglas & McIntyre to publish birding memoir

By Ryan Porter

Dundurn Press president and publisher Scott Fraser has acquired North American English rights to Michelle Bilodeau and Karen Cleveland’s Holy (!) Matrimony: A Modern Guide to Conscious Coupling. An updated take on wedding planning, the book ... Read More »

August 26, 2019

Seven U.S. publishers band together in copyright suit over Amazon-owned Audible’s proposed “Audible Captions”

By Ryan Porter

The Association of American Publishers and a consortium of seven U.S. publishers filed a copyright suit against the Amazon-owned Audible on Aug. 23 in advance of its planned launch of Audible Captions this September. Audible ... Read More »

August 26, 2019

Daily Deal: Dundurn acquires rights to debut novel from Canadian-Nigerian author Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia

By Ryan Porter

Dundurn Press publisher Scott Fraser has acquired North American English rights to Canadian-Nigerian author Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia’s first book The Son of the House. Rights were acquired from Penguin Random House South Africa. The novel is ... Read More »

August 23, 2019

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Daily Deals: Kerry Clare’s new novel to Doubleday Canada

Daily Deals: Goose Lane Editions to publish Mary Pratt biography; Anansi acquires Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s latest

Atwood’s The Testaments to be developed for the screen by team behind Handmaid’s Tale TV series

Illustrator Kathryn Durst on being handpicked by Paul McCartney for his new picture book

WLU Press to offer free ebooks in support of incarcerated poet Rita Wong

Daily Deals: David A. Robertson strikes three-book deal with Puffin; two-book deal with Tundra

How booksellers across Canada are preparing to launch Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments

Daily Deals: Dundurn acquires modern wedding guide; Douglas & McIntyre to publish birding memoir

Seven U.S. publishers band together in copyright suit over Amazon-owned Audible’s proposed “Audible Captions”

Daily Deal: Dundurn acquires rights to debut novel from Canadian-Nigerian author Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia

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