by Cassandra Drudi

Rights Deals: Steve Murphy and Adrian So

Nimbus Publishing nonfiction editor Angela Mombourquette has acquired Steve Murphy’s Murphy’s Logic: Insights from 45 Years in the News Business. The nonfiction book is described as a collection of the beloved CTV Atlantic broadcaster’s opinions ... Read More »

June 5, 2023

Rights Deals: Laurent Dagenais, Christina Cooke + five more

By Cassandra Drudi

Robert Rose senior editor Meredith Dees has acquired world English rights to Laurent Dagenais’s Always Hungry! The cookbook is described as featuring 70 recipes — 20 which have gone viral — from the chef and ... Read More »

June 2, 2023

Cooper Skjeie, Zak Jones named 2023 Bronwen Wallace Award winners

By Cassandra Drudi

Saskatoon-based poet and teacher Cooper Skjeie and Toronto-based writer and teacher Zak Jones have been named the winners of the $10,000 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers for poetry and short fiction, respectively. The winners ... Read More »

June 1, 2023

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Megan Konzelman has joined Penguin Random House Canada as publicist, lifestyle, and reports to Michelle Arbus. She will be responsible for publicity for Appetite and Penguin’s lifestyle lists, as well as for publicity for Clarkson Potter, ... Read More »

June 1, 2023

Rights Deals: Eternity Martis, Marty Chan + two more

By Cassandra Drudi

McClelland & Stewart’s Haley Cullingham has acquired Canadian English rights to Eternity Martis’s White Lies. The debut novel is described as a darkly humourous satire-drama inspired by a culture of white women behaving badly (and ... Read More »

May 29, 2023

Distribution change: 1517 Media

By Cassandra Drudi

Effective immediately, 1517 Media (Beaming Books, Broadleaf Books & Fortress Press) will be distributed in Canada by Jaguar Book Group, ... Read More »

May 29, 2023

Toronto teacher-librarian wins inaugural Frances Lincoln Children’s Librarian Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

Toronto teacher-librarian Krista Spence has been named the inaugural winner of the Frances Lincoln Children's Librarian Prize. The award, administered by Quarto Group imprint Frances Lincoln Children's Books, recognizes a children's or teen librarian who ... Read More »

May 25, 2023

Rights Deals: Nita Prose, Sarah Leavitt + five more

By Cassandra Drudi

Penguin Canada publisher Nicole Winstanley has acquired Canadian rights to Nita Prose’s The Mystery Guest. The novel is described as a follow-up to The Maid, and features the fastidious Molly Gray, now esteemed head maid ... Read More »

May 25, 2023

Kim Fu wins $10K Danuta Gleed Literary Award

By Cassandra Drudi

Kim Fu has been named the winner of the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. The annual prize, administered by the Writers' Union of Canada, recognizes the best first collection of short fiction published in English ... Read More »

May 25, 2023

Agony Editor: It’s OK to let your supportive spouse skip industry events

By Cassandra Drudi

Dear Agony Editor, I’m a writer with a husband who has always been supportive of my career except in one area: he hates going to publishing industry events. He finds them boring and pretentious. I ... Read More »

May 24, 2023

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