by Attila Berki

CIBA launches The Booksellers’ List marketing initiative

On Sept. 1, the Canadian Independent Booksellers Association (CIBA) launched its inaugural The Booksellers’ List, a new marketing initiative that highlights the titles most anticipated by Canada’s indie bookstores for the fall 2025 season. The ... Read More »

September 3, 2025

Excerpt from Wrestling with Cadence: Essays on Writing and Intuition by Dennis Lee

By Attila Berki

I was sitting with friends in a small Toronto restaurant, just off Yorkville Avenue. This was back in the 1970s. And something happened that would become a touchstone in my writing. As the four of ... Read More »

September 3, 2025

Rights deals: Diane Borsato + 1 more

By Attila Berki

Chronicle Books’s Mirabelle Korn has acquired world rights to Diane Borsato’s Dessert Club: A Sweet Tooth’s Guide to the World, From Mille-Feuilles to Mochi Donuts. The nonfiction book is described as a field guide to ... Read More »

September 2, 2025

Arsenal Pulp Press announces editorial partnership with Lindsay Wong

By Attila Berki

Vancouver's Arsenal Pulp Press has announced a partnership with Lindsay Wong that will provide mentoring and publication for emerging BIPOC writers. Wong, who teaches creative writing at the University of Winnipeg, had her first book ... Read More »

August 27, 2025

‘Too small to fail’: Windsor indie Palimpsest Press marks 25 years

By Attila Berki

Palimpsest Press publisher Aimée Parent Dunn jokes that her Windsor-based small press is too small to fail. This year, the “small but mighty” press marks 25 years of operation, and Dunn – who is not ... Read More »

August 27, 2025

Personnel changes: Owlkids Books

By Attila Berki

Danielle Laver has been promoted to associate sales manager at Owlkids Books. Laver will assume responsibility for Canadian sales, working with sales reps, distributors, and customers to drive sales in the Canadian market, as well ... Read More »

August 26, 2025

Rights deals: Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, January Sun + one more

By Attila Berki

Random House Canada senior editor Meredith Dees has acquired at auction world English rights to an as yet untitled memoir by Paul Sun-Hyung Lee. The nonfiction work by the actor and television host from Kim’s ... Read More »

August 26, 2025

Toronto’s Flying Books marks 10 years of flight

By Attila Berki

Flying Books founder and publishing industry veteran Martha Sharpe credits the growth of her business over the last 10 years – from one table-top bookshelf in a downtown Toronto store to a two-storefront retail operation, ... Read More »

August 20, 2025

Eden Mills Writers Festival announces and rescinds inclusion of AI author in its lineup

By Attila Berki

Late on Friday, August 15, the Eden Mills Writers Festival in Eden Mills, Ontario, made a programming announcement they expected would create both conversation and controversy. They would be hosting artificial intelligence author, Aiden Cinnamon ... Read More »

August 20, 2025

Personnel change: Penguin Random House Canada

By Attila Berki

Rick Meier has been promoted to senior editor at Knopf Canada. Meier is the editor of such titles as Waubgeshig Rice’s Moon of the Turning Leaves, Rob Benvie’s The Damagers, and the Baillie Gifford Prize ... Read More »

August 20, 2025

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