by Sue Carter

Trudeau says no renegotiated NAFTA without the cultural exemption

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not backing down from Canada’s demand to maintain a cultural exemption in the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement. The cultural exemption aims to protect Canada’s publishing and broadcast industries. ... Read More »

September 5, 2018

Daily Deals: Pajama Press acquires Anitha Rao-Robinson picture book

By Sue Carter

Pajama Press publisher Gail Winskill has acquired North American rights to A Family for Faru, a picture book text by Anitha Rao-Robinson, illustrated by Suzanne Del Rizzo (My Beautiful Birds), about the bond between a young ... Read More »

September 5, 2018

Penguin Shop hosts branded takeover of Vivek Shraya’s I’m Afraid of Men

By Sue Carter

Visitors to the Penguin Shop this month will notice that the iconic bird has a new bold look. Until Sept. 26, the boutique bookstore – located in the main lobby of Penguin Random House’s headquarters ... Read More »

August 30, 2018

Daily Deals: ECW acquires non-fiction by Terry Ryan, Vanessa Brown

By Sue Carter

ECW Press executive editor Michael Holmes has acquired world rights to Terry Ryan’s Tales of a First-Round Nothing 2, a memoir about his short career as a pro hockey player for the Montreal Canadiens. Publication ... Read More »

August 29, 2018

Daily Deals: film rights and a new novel for Susan Swan

By Sue Carter

Temple Street Productions (Orphan Black) has acquired film and TV rights to Susan Swan’s debut 1983 novel, The Biggest Modern Woman Of The World. Award-winning playwright and screenwriter Hannah Moscovitch is attached to adapt the ... Read More »

August 28, 2018

National Business Book Award shortlist announced

By Sue Carter

Four titles have been announced for this year's National Business Book Award. The $30,000 prize is presented to an outstanding Canadian business-related book published the previous year. This year's jury is chaired by former CBC ... Read More »

August 28, 2018

Daily Deals: ECW acquires Brenda Brooks’s new novel

By Sue Carter

ECW Press senior editor Jen Knoch has acquired North American English rights to B.C. author Brenda Brooks's novel Honey. The story, about "friendship, seduction, and murder," is compared to films such as Carol, Bound, and ... Read More »

August 27, 2018

Alison Pick named Wilfrid Laurier University’s new Edna Staebler Visiting Writer

By Sue Carter

Toronto author Alison Pick has been selected as Wilfrid Laurier University’s Edna Staebler Visiting Writer for the fall 2018 term. From Oct. 22 to Nov. 2, Pick will split her time between WLU's Waterloo and ... Read More »

August 27, 2018

Cherie Dimaline, Richard Van Camp and Monique Gray Smith make Burt Award longlist for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis YA lit

By Sue Carter

Nine young-adult submissions have been received for this year's 2018 CODE Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Young Adult Literature. Lead by Nancy Cooper, the National Reading Campaign's adjudication coordinator, the peer-assessment committee ... Read More »

August 16, 2018

PRHC hires Soulpepper’s Katie Saunoris as director of communications

By Sue Carter

Penguin Random House Canada has hired Katie Saunoris in the newly created position of director, communications. Saunoris, who reports to Beth Lockley, vice-president, marketing and communications, will work on PRHC’s corporate communications strategy in partnership ... Read More »

August 15, 2018

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Trudeau says no renegotiated NAFTA without the cultural exemption

Daily Deals: Pajama Press acquires Anitha Rao-Robinson picture book

Penguin Shop hosts branded takeover of Vivek Shraya’s I’m Afraid of Men

Daily Deals: ECW acquires non-fiction by Terry Ryan, Vanessa Brown

Daily Deals: film rights and a new novel for Susan Swan

National Business Book Award shortlist announced

Daily Deals: ECW acquires Brenda Brooks’s new novel

Alison Pick named Wilfrid Laurier University’s new Edna Staebler Visiting Writer

Cherie Dimaline, Richard Van Camp and Monique Gray Smith make Burt Award longlist for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis YA lit

PRHC hires Soulpepper’s Katie Saunoris as director of communications

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