by Ryan Porter

Genki Ferguson’s debut novel to M&S; Linwood Barclay’s Doug Ford satire to ECW

McClelland & Stewart senior editor Anita Chong has acquired North American rights, at auction, to Genki Ferguson’s debut novel, Satellite Love. Set in 1999 Japan, the novel tells the story of a lonely teenager who falls in ... Read More »

July 15, 2019

Loan Stars: Librarians pick their favourite upcoming August titles

By Ryan Porter

Each month, Canadian library staff vote for their favourite upcoming books, via BookNet Canada’s Loan Stars readers-advisory program and the Canadian Urban Libraries Council. A Better Man, Louise Penny (Minotaur Books) The Turn of the ... Read More »

July 15, 2019

TIFA to host memorial to the late Wayson Choy

By Ryan Porter

The Toronto International Festival of Authors will hold a public memorial for Wayson Choy as part of its 40th anniversary programming this fall. Penguin Random House Canada CEO Kristin Cochrane will host the remembrance, which will ... Read More »

July 15, 2019

Daily Deals: Wilderness memoir from Trina Moyles to Random House; Anne Koval’s feminist analysis of Mary Pratt to Goose Lane

By Ryan Porter

Random House editor Amanda Betts has acquired Canadian English rights to Trina Moyles’s Eyes in the Sky: Love, Loss, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfires in the Boreal Forest. The memoir covers Moyles’s time at a remote ... Read More »

July 11, 2019

Former Penguin publicist lands record-breaking deal for debut novel

By Ryan Porter

Penguin Random House is betting it has found the next big book in Ashley Audrain’s debut novel The Push. The psychological drama about motherhood by the Toronto, Ontario, author was purchased at auction by Penguin ... Read More »

July 11, 2019

Daily Deals: Dundurn acquires three YA novels

By Ryan Porter

Dundurn acquisitions editor Rachel Spence has acquired world rights to three new YA novels. Rob Shapiro’s The Book of Sam follows a teenage boy who ventures to Hell, a fantastical world of falling cities and strange ... Read More »

July 4, 2019

UBC gets $650,000 grant to fund RavenSpace

By Ryan Porter

The University of British Columbia Press will expand its groundbreaking interactive digital publications in Indigenous studies thanks to a $650,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. UBC Press launched its RavenSpace imprint in April ... Read More »

July 3, 2019

Daily Deals: Helen Humphreys’s new illustrated non-fiction collection to ECW

By Ryan Porter

ECW Press executive editor at large Susan Renouf has acquired world rights to Helen Humphreys’s Field Study. The illustrated non-fiction book meditates on the lost world of herbarium collections and examines our relationship with nature in ... Read More »

July 2, 2019

Three innovations at Library and Archives Canada’s new world-leading preservation centre

By Ryan Porter

When Library and Archives Canada opens its second preservation centre in 2022, it’s expected to hold the next century of Canadian history. No wonder it boasts industry-leading innovations. Located in Gatineau, QC, beside the current ... Read More »

July 2, 2019

Nora Decter, Julie Evelyn Joyce, and Kate Harris win Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes

By Ryan Porter

Three women have been named the winners of the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. Each debut writer will receive $10,000 and marketing support from Kobo. In the Literary Fiction category, judge Craig Davidson selected Nora Dector’s ... Read More »

June 27, 2019

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Genki Ferguson’s debut novel to M&S; Linwood Barclay’s Doug Ford satire to ECW

Loan Stars: Librarians pick their favourite upcoming August titles

TIFA to host memorial to the late Wayson Choy

Daily Deals: Wilderness memoir from Trina Moyles to Random House; Anne Koval’s feminist analysis of Mary Pratt to Goose Lane

Former Penguin publicist lands record-breaking deal for debut novel

Daily Deals: Dundurn acquires three YA novels

UBC gets $650,000 grant to fund RavenSpace

Daily Deals: Helen Humphreys’s new illustrated non-fiction collection to ECW

Three innovations at Library and Archives Canada’s new world-leading preservation centre

Nora Decter, Julie Evelyn Joyce, and Kate Harris win Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes

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