Counterpoint Press executive editor Dan Smetanka has acquired U.S. rights to Shaughnessy Cohen Prize–winning author Marcello Di Cintio’s Pay No Heed to the Rockets, a political-literary travelogue that reveals a more complex story to the Palestinian experience as ... Read More »

Penguin Canada publishing director Diane Turbide has acquired, in a pre-empt, Canadian English rights to Antonio Michael Downing’s memoir Becoming John Orpheus, about a young Trinidadian boy who lands in a remote Northern Ontario town and navigates his ... Read More »

Thunderbird Entertainment senior vice-president of scripted production Alex Rafféhas acquired television rights to Cherie Dimaline’s bestselling novel, The Marrow Thieves. The book – which features a teen protagonist struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world ... Read More »