Anonymous Content (Spotlight, True Detective, The Revenant) has optioned film rights to Toronto comic creator Jeff Lemire’s 2012 graphic novel The Underwater Welder (Top Shelf Productions/Canadian Manda Grou
Personnel Change: Orca Book Publishers
B.C.–based children’s press Orca Book Publishers has announced that publisher Andrew Wooldridge has purchased the remaining 50 per cent stake in the company from founder Bob Tyrrell.
Kidlit Spotlight: Publishers and authors are answering the need for books that shed light on the refugee experience
Attempting to respond to questions from her own school-aged kids about the war in Syria inspired illustrator Suzanne Del Rizzo to write My Beautiful Birds, a book about a young refugee.
Kidlit Spotlight Q&A: Authors Robin Stevenson and Sarah N. Harvey on collaborating for their YA thriller, Blood on the Beach
Q&Q asked authors Robin Stevenson and Sarah N. Harvey about collaborating on the YA thriller Blood on the Beach.
Daily Deals: George Elliott Clarke’s family memoir acquired by Knopf Canada; French rights for Notes from a Feminist Killjoy
Knopf Canada editor Amanda Betts has acquired Canadian English-language rights to novelist and Parliamentary poet laureate George Elliot Clarke’s family memoir.
Loan Stars: Librarians pick their favourite upcoming April titles
Each month, Canadian library staff vote for their favourite upcoming books, via BookNet Canada’s Loan Stars readers-advisory program.
Daily Deals: M&S to publish debut book by Sasha Chapin
McClelland & Stewart publisher Jared Bland has acquired Canadian rights to the first book by National Magazine Award–winning journalist Sasha Chapin.
Daily Deals: ChiZine acquires George A. Romero book; Scholastic to publish new Cale Atkinson picture book
Today’s book deal announcements.
Bryan Prince Bookseller finishes renovations in time for 28th anniversary
An early construction deadline gave Bryan Prince Bookseller in Hamilton double the reasons to throw a party last week.
Agony Editor: Honesty is the best policy when writing about family
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