Daily Deals: Doubleday acquires two new Shari Lapena thrillers; audiobook deals for Alix Hawley and Eden Robinson
Daily Deals: New stories, poetry, non-fiction, and a novel for ECW Press
Daily Deals: Orca to publish M.J. McIsaac YA sports mystery
Orca Book Publishers editor Tanya Trafford and publisher Andrew Wooldridge have acquired world rights to Underhand author M.J. McIsaac’s YA sports mystery Boil Line.
Daily Deals: Lesley Livingston’s The Valiant coming to TV
Lesley Livingston’s YA novel The Valiant is being adapted into a one-hour TV drama, while Berkley has acquired North American rights to Sonya Lalli’s first two novels.
Audible acquires rights to multiple authors; Bianca Marais follow-up to Putnam
Audible has acquired audiobook rights to novels by Claire Cameron, Alix Hawley, Wayson Choy, Eden Robinson, and Leo McKay Jr., and Yasuko Thanh.
Daily Deals: David Chariandy’s Soucouyant optioned for film; ECW acquires Michael Barclay’s Hip bio
Big Soul Productions, a Toronto-based Indigenous film and video production company, has acquired film rights to David Chariandy’s debut novel Soucouyant.
Daily Deals: Kimberley Mok’s house-bus book sells in the U.S.
New York City–based Countryman Press has acquired world English rights to Montreal designer and TreeHugger writer Kimberley Mok’s The Modern House Bus.
Daily Deals: Catherine Hernandez’s Scarborough sells in French
French-language rights to Catherine Hernandez’s 2017 novel Scarborough have sold to Les Éditions XYZ.
Daily Deals: Nine new acquisitions for Coach House Books
Coach House Books editorial director Alana Wilcox has acquired world rights to a book of poetry written in airport codes by Nasser Hussain.