by Ryan Porter

Daily Deals: Failed Christian mission inspires new Joan Thomas novel for HarperCollins

HarperCollins Canada editorial director Jennifer Lambert has acquired Canadian English rights to Joan Thomas’s next novel, Five Wives. The Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award winning writer’s fourth novel is based on the true story of the disastrous evangelical ... Read More »

December 5, 2018

Elizabeth Hay, Darrel McLeod among 10 finalists for RBC Taylor Prize

By Ryan Porter

The RBC Taylor Prize, one of Canada’s most prestigious prizes for non-fiction, announced its 10 longlisted books on Dec. 5. McClelland & Stewart dominated the longlist with three finalists: former Governor General David Johnston’s manifesto, ... Read More »

December 5, 2018

Reconciliation is driving public library demand for Indigenous reads

By Ryan Porter

Politics, drama, mystery, and art are among the subjects covered in the Toronto Public Library’s Native Peoples Collection. The variety among its 317 titles is impressive, but many of them have one thing in common: ... Read More »

November 29, 2018

Personnel change: Meg Wheeler promoted to associate agent at WCA

By Ryan Porter

Westwood Creative Artists’s Meg Wheeler has been promoted to associate agent, and will begin acquiring writers of literary and commercial fiction as well as non-fiction. She will continue to assist Bruce Westwood, with whom she ... Read More »

November 28, 2018

Guelph’s Gordon Hill Press to debut with poetry, provocative non-fiction

By Ryan Porter

The newly established Gordon Hill Press is the only literary press in Guelph, but publisher Jeremy Luke Hill says his mandate is to reach far beyond the small southern Ontario city. “We want to be ... Read More »

November 28, 2018

Handmaid’s Tale sequel The Testaments announced for September 2019

By Ryan Porter

Margaret Atwood will publish The Testaments, a sequel to her novel The Handmaid’s Tale, on Sept. 10, 2019, Canadian publisher McClelland & Stewart announced on Nov. 28. The novel, which returns to the totalitarian society ... Read More »

November 28, 2018

Daily Deals: Melanie Mah’s Trillium-winning novel optioned for feature film

By Ryan Porter

Toronto-based 12th Street Films has optioned Melanie Mah’s novel The Sweetest One for a feature film. The novel, about a 17-year-old in small-town Alberta who believes her family is cursed, won the Trillium Prize in 2017. ... Read More »

November 27, 2018

Daily Deals: Rick Westhead to write true NHL tragedy for HarperCollins Canada

By Ryan Porter

HarperCollins Canada editorial director of non-fiction Jim Gifford has acquired world rights to TSN investigative reporter and former Toronto Star journalist Rick Westhead’s Finding Murph. The biography tells the tragic true story of former NHLer ... Read More »

November 26, 2018

Daily Deals: Guide to “forest bathing” sells to St. Martin’s; Moira Welsh to publish upbeat take on long-term care with ECW

By Ryan Porter

St. Martin’s Press vice-president and editorial director of “mind-body-spirit” imprint St. Martin’s Essentials Joel Fotinos has acquired world rights to Toronto naturopathic doctor Dr. Cyndi Gilbert’s Forest Bathing. The wellness guide introduces readers to the art and science ... Read More »

November 22, 2018

Kerri Sakamoto’s Floating City wins Canada-Japan Literary Award

By Ryan Porter

Kerri Sakamoto has won a $10,000 Canada-Japan Literary Award for her novel Floating City. Sakamoto’s third novel, about a Japanese boy’s journey from a B.C. internment camp to Toronto, where he remakes himself as a ... Read More »

November 22, 2018

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Daily Deals: Failed Christian mission inspires new Joan Thomas novel for HarperCollins

Elizabeth Hay, Darrel McLeod among 10 finalists for RBC Taylor Prize

Reconciliation is driving public library demand for Indigenous reads

Personnel change: Meg Wheeler promoted to associate agent at WCA

Guelph’s Gordon Hill Press to debut with poetry, provocative non-fiction

Handmaid’s Tale sequel The Testaments announced for September 2019

Daily Deals: Melanie Mah’s Trillium-winning novel optioned for feature film

Daily Deals: Rick Westhead to write true NHL tragedy for HarperCollins Canada

Daily Deals: Guide to “forest bathing” sells to St. Martin’s; Moira Welsh to publish upbeat take on long-term care with ECW

Kerri Sakamoto’s Floating City wins Canada-Japan Literary Award

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