by Ryan Porter

Personnel changes: Orca senior editor Sarah Harvey to retire

Orca Book Publishers senior editor Sarah Harvey will retire at the end of December. She will continue to edit select non-fiction titles for Orca in her new role as a freelance editor. Kirstie Hudson has joined ... Read More »

December 20, 2018

Members of Canada’s literary community sought for 2020 Frankfurt Book Fair committee

By Ryan Porter

Canada FBM2020 is calling for applicants from Canada’s literary community to advise in planning related to the 2020 Frankfurt Book Fair. Canada has been named the guest of honour country at the annual publishing summit. ... Read More »

December 19, 2018

Daily Deals: Invisible acquires memoir from poet Dani Couture

By Ryan Porter

Invisible Publishing’s Bryan J. Ibeas has acquired world rights to poet Dani Couture’s What Luck Is Left. The memoir is about one woman’s sometimes complicated history of hunting and fishing with her ex-military father. Publication is ... Read More »

December 17, 2018

Mabel’s Fables’s Book Angel program has delivered over 13,000 books to children in need

By Ryan Porter

Cards featuring cherubs gleefully reading books hang from the ceiling of Toronto bookstore Mabel’s Fables. Each one represents a child in need who will receive a book on Christmas morning. For three decades, the children’s ... Read More »

December 17, 2018

Daily Deals: Nimbus acquires Rebecca Rose’s history of queer Halifax

By Ryan Porter

Nimbus Publishing managing editor Whitney Moran has acquired world rights to Nova Scotia journalist Rebecca Rose’s Before the Parade: Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Halifax. The book will be a narrative history of the foundations of Halifax’s queer community, focusing on the city’s ... Read More »

December 12, 2018

Thrillers dominate the Toronto Public Library’s most-borrowed books of 2018 list, but an unexpected favourite is #1 … again

By Ryan Porter

A perennial favourite has topped the Toronto Public Library’s list of the most-borrowed books of 2018: The Official MTO Driver’s Handbook. The essential guide was borrowed 4,665 times in 2018 (as of Dec. 10). “It’s ... Read More »

December 12, 2018

Chelene Knight’s memoir Dear Current Occupant wins Vancouver Book Award

By Ryan Porter

Author, poet, and Room magazine managing editor Chelene Knight has won the $3,000 City of Vancouver Book Award for her memoir Dear Current Occupant (Book*hug). Knight recalls a childhood of precarious housing by writing letters ... Read More »

December 10, 2018

Daily Deals: German rights sold for The Marrow Thieves

By Ryan Porter

Heyne Verlag has acquired world German rights to Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves. The deal was arranged by Ron Eckel at Cooke International, in association with Clementine Gaisman at Intercontinental Literary Agency, on behalf of ... Read More »

December 7, 2018

Daily Deals: BuzzFeed editor Elamin Abdelmahmoud’s debut essay collection to M&S

By Ryan Porter

McClelland & Stewart publisher Jared Bland has acquired Canadian English rights to BuzzFeed Canada editor Elamin Abdelmahmoud’s Son of Elsewhere. The debut collection of personal essays grapples with notions of belonging, Blackness, masculinity, and Muslim-ness. It is scheduled for ... Read More »

December 6, 2018

Heather Read to service western Canada with sales agency Read and Co

By Ryan Porter

Veteran publishing sales rep Heather Read has founded her own agency, Read and Co, to service B.C., Alberta, and the Territories. The operation will formally launch Jan. 1. Read has been in publishing for 20 ... Read More »

December 6, 2018

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Personnel changes: Orca senior editor Sarah Harvey to retire

Members of Canada’s literary community sought for 2020 Frankfurt Book Fair committee

Daily Deals: Invisible acquires memoir from poet Dani Couture

Mabel’s Fables’s Book Angel program has delivered over 13,000 books to children in need

Daily Deals: Nimbus acquires Rebecca Rose’s history of queer Halifax

Thrillers dominate the Toronto Public Library’s most-borrowed books of 2018 list, but an unexpected favourite is #1 … again

Chelene Knight’s memoir Dear Current Occupant wins Vancouver Book Award

Daily Deals: German rights sold for The Marrow Thieves

Daily Deals: BuzzFeed editor Elamin Abdelmahmoud’s debut essay collection to M&S

Heather Read to service western Canada with sales agency Read and Co

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