McCaig says the Thistledown deal is not a merger with Freehand, but a direct sale between her and current owner, Al Forrie.
Daily Deals: Michelle Wamboldt’s debut historical fiction, inspired by her grandmother’s life, to Vagrant
HarperCollins puts out a call for unpublished BIPOC middle-grade books
Each submission will be read by an editorial committee and authors will receive feedback and potentially a publishing offer by December 15, 2020.
Director Ross Manson on André Alexis’s new pandemic-themed audiodrama trilogy
André Alexis has written three audiodramas from the perspective of people living in a pandemic in Toronto.
Daily Deals: Random House acquires memoir by Gambian pageant winner who survived sexual assault
Daily Deals: M&S acquires non-fiction from Jen Sookfong Lee, Mark Medley
Daily Deals: Uzma Jalaluddin’s new romance to HarperCollins Canada in two-book deal
Surreal trailer drops for adaptation of Iain Reid’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things
I’m Thinking of Ending Things will premiere on Netflix on Sept. 4.
Publishing scholarship in honour of the late Greg Younging to be offered at SFU
The Greg Younging Undergraduate Award in Publishing will include at least one scholarship worth a minimum of $1,000.
FOLD Kids announces quarterly book club
The first book in the FOLD Young Readers Book Club will be Nafiza Azad’s YA novel The Candle and the Flame.