by Cassandra Drudi

Rights Deals: Jayda Hope, Jeremy John + one more

Dundurn Press president and publisher Kwame Fraser has acquired world rights to Jayda Hope’s Forgotten Descendents of Africville. The nonfiction book is described as journeying into the heart of one of Canada’s most horrendous acts of racism, and ... Read More »

July 24, 2023

Rights Deals: Julie Flett and Greg Kearney

By Cassandra Drudi

Greystone Kids’s Rob Sanders has acquired three picture books from multi-award-winning Cree-Métis author-illustrator Julie Flett. Publication for the as-yet untitled books is expected for fall 2025, spring 2026, and fall 2026. The deal was arranged ... Read More »

July 20, 2023

2023 Fall Preview: Fiction and Short Fiction

By Cassandra Drudi

The Librarianist Patrick deWitt House of Anansi Press, July Award winner Patrick deWitt returns after 2018’s French Exit with this novel about retired librarian Bog Comet who lives a solitary life surrounded by his books. ... Read More »

July 19, 2023

Shop Talk: Slow Burn Books

By Cassandra Drudi

Shop Talk is an occasional feature in which fledgling independent booksellers take Q&Q into their stores and share their reasons for opening and what business has been like so far. Slow Burn Books 1934 34 ... Read More »

July 19, 2023

Personnel change: The Bukowski Agency

By Cassandra Drudi

Bukowski Agency intern Alison Thompson has been promoted to associate agent, effective immediately, and has begun developing ... Read More »

July 19, 2023

Rights Deals: Jean Marc Ah-Sen and Aurora Stewart de Peña

By Cassandra Drudi

Gordon Hill Press’s Jeremy Luke Hill has acquired Canadian English rights to Blasphemy and Other Ancestors by Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Padgett Powell, Darius James, and Lee Henderson. The book is described as a collection of ... Read More »

July 17, 2023

Charlie Foran resigns from Writers’ Trust of Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Charlie Foran is stepping down from his role as executive director of the Writers' Trust of Canada. Foran assumed the role in January 2020, taking over from Mary Osborne, who held the post for seven ... Read More »

July 17, 2023

Shortlist announced for 2023 Ontario Speaker’s Book Award

By Cassandra Drudi

Six books have been shortlisted for the 2023 Ontario Speaker's Book Award. The shortlisted books are: Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada by Gabriel Allahdua with Edward Dunsworth (Between the Lines) ... Read More »

July 17, 2023

Canada Book Fund’s support for booksellers makes a difference to indies

By Cassandra Drudi

Although the amount of funding independent bookstores received this year as part of Canadian Heritage’s new two-year Support for Booksellers component of the Canada Book Fund varied significantly from store to store, the money provided ... Read More »

July 12, 2023

Tea time: Lesley Crewe’s newest book to launch with a custom blend

By Cassandra Drudi

Tea is very important to people in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. It’s no surprise, then, that there is “an awful lot of tea drinking going on” in the bestselling novels of Lesley Crewe, who has ... Read More »

July 12, 2023

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