Dundurn editorial director Carrie Gleason has acquired world rights to Toronto author Kim Moritsugu’s novel The Showrunner.
Daily Deals: Multiple foreign deals for Michael Crummey | Film rights sold for Jen Sookfong Lee’s The Conjoined
Patrice Leung at Golden Orchid Productions has acquired film rights for Jen Sookfong Lee’s 2016 novel The Conjoined (ECW Press).
Book Making: A book-in-a-box for budding Spielbergs and Scorseses
Smart Phone Movie Maker helps budding young cinematographers create movie magic using only their phones.
Q&A: Canada Council CEO Simon Brault on the Digital World summit and the future of publishing
On March 15–17, more than 250 artists, administrators, technology experts and thinkers gathered in Montreal for the Arts in a Digital World Summit, organized by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Daily Deals: German rights to Marissa Stapley’s new novel sell in three-book deal
German rights to Marissa Stapley’s novel Things to do When It’s Raining have sold as part of a six-figure, three-book deal at auction.
What Canadian publishers are taking to Bologna 2017
The 54th edition of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair will take place April 3-6, and Canada will be well represented with 35 publishers (19 French-language), two agencies, and non-profit organization Livres Canada Books, among others, exhibiting.
Anansi publishes collection of smuggled stories from inside North Korea
House of Anansi Press editorial director Janie Yoon was at the London Book Fair last March when she ran into Amy Hundley, an editor and rights director at Grove Atlantic, who told her about a collection of short stories thought to be the first to come out of North Korea.
Daily Deals: HarperCollins scores Doug Gilmour memoir | ECW acquires debut poetry collection from Lenea Grace
HarperCollins editorial director of non-fiction Jim Gifford has acquired rights to Killer: My Life in Hockey by former Toronto Maple Leaf Doug Gilmour, co-written with sports journalist Dan Robson.
Carrie Gleason returns to Lorimer as publisher
Carrie Gleason is the new publisher of James Lorimer & Company, effective April 10.
Daily Deals: Figure 1 partners with National Gallery of Canada on James Wilson Morrice publication | Multiple deals for kids’ author Linda Bailey
Figure 1 Publishing is partnering with the National Gallery of Canada to produce James W. Morrice: The A.K. Prakash Collection in Trust to the Nation.
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