A.L. Knorr had never written a novel before she left her job as a marketing director in Canmore, Alberta, and moved to Italy for love. When that relationship ended, she threw herself into writing her ... Read More »
January 21, 2019
The Canadian Urban Libraries Council has turned to the public in a campaign urging the big five multinational publishers to renegotiate the price they charge libraries for ebooks and audiobooks. The advocacy organization, which represents ... Read More »
January 21, 2019
Vancouver-based non-fiction publisher Greystone Books has announced the launch of Greystone Kids. The imprint will focus on picture books and non-fiction middle-grade books. In addition to titles that focus on natural history, the environment, science, ... Read More »
January 17, 2019
Conundrum Press’s Andy Brown has acquired world English rights to Haines Junction, Yukon, comic artist and illustrator Cole Pauls’s Dakwäkãda Warriors. The YA graphic novel by the Tahltan artist is an allegory of colonialism in ... Read More »
January 15, 2019
The Canadian print book market has Michelle Obama to thank for another billion-dollar year. Sales of print books in 2018 were on par with 2017 figures at $1.13 billion, BookNet Canada has announced. But that’s ... Read More »
January 15, 2019
Carolyn Forde has joined the Transatlantic Agency as a senior agent. “After 14 great years at Westwood Creative Artists, it was time for a new challenge,” she said in a statement. “I look forward to ... Read More »
January 15, 2019
Greystone Books has acquired all language and world rights to Candace Savage’s Strangers in the House: A Story of Bigotry and Belonging. As Savage researches the original occupants of her Saskatoon home in the 1920s, ... Read More »
January 14, 2019
Following three successful years, The Festival of Literary Diversity is launching a spinoff event that will focus on children’s literature. The new festival will take place in Brampton, Ontario, on Sept. 27–29. “We believe it’s ... Read More »
January 14, 2019
Optimum Publishing International is standing by Brampton, Ontario, mayor and former Ontario PC leader Patrick Brown in a threatened libel suit over his book Takedown: The Attempted Political Assassination of Patrick Brown. Optimum and Brown ... Read More »
January 10, 2019
Canada Reads, the CBC’s bestseller-minting literary competition, has announced its 15-book longlist. The list includes six memoirs, which perhaps reflects this year's theme: “one book to move you.” HarperCollins has the most books represented at ... Read More »
January 10, 2019
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