by Cassandra Drudi

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

Ricky Utomo has joined the Penguin Random House Canada IT team as a service desk analyst. Kathryn Rennie has been promoted to senior imprint sales manager, Young Readers, reporting to Kelly Glover. Cindy Pang will be joining the young readers ... Read More »

March 15, 2023

Al Purdy A-frame Association launches fundraising campaign for foundation repairs

By Cassandra Drudi

The A-frame house poet Al Purdy built in Ontario's Prince Edward County is in need of saving – again. After Purdy died in 2000, his wife Eurithe Purdy hoped to sell the property with the ... Read More »

March 9, 2023

Rights Deals: Jessica Waite, Elizabeth Renzetti + eight more

By Cassandra Drudi

Atria Books’s Amar Deol has acquired world English rights to Jessica Waite’s The Widow’s Guide to Dead Bastards. The memoir is described as Waite's story of how the sudden death of her husband — and ... Read More »

March 9, 2023

Breakwater Books celebrates 50 years of publishing on the Rock

By Cassandra Drudi

As a child, Rebecca Rose remembers cracking open cases of books published by Breakwater Books, flipping to the correct page and placing errata stickers over typos. Independent publishing was a family operation, and independent publishing ... Read More »

March 8, 2023

Agency and distribution change: Severn River Publishing

By Cassandra Drudi

As of April 1, Baker & Taylor Publisher Services will be the worldwide sales representative and distributor ... Read More »

March 8, 2023

Robert Amos wins 2023 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

Victoria writer and artist Robert Amos has been awarded the 2023 Basil-Stuart Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia. Amos won the $3,500 prize for his 2022 book E. J. Hughes: Canadian War ... Read More »

March 8, 2023

Longlist announced for inaugural $150K (U.S.) Carol Shields Prize for Fiction

By Cassandra Drudi

Three years after the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction was created, the longlist for the inaugural $150,000 (U.S.) award has been announced. Five of the 15 titles are by Canadian authors, and three are published ... Read More »

March 8, 2023

La courte échelle wins 2023 Bologna Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

Quebec publisher La courte échelle has been named the North American winner of the 2023 Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year. The prize is awarded annually to highlight excellent publishing houses ... Read More »

March 6, 2023

Rights Deals: Jack Whalen and Lisa Moore + two more

By Cassandra Drudi

Knopf Canada editor-in-chief Lynn Henry has acquired Canadian English rights to an as-yet untitled book by Jack Whalen and Lisa Moore. The co-authored memoir is described as the story of Whalen’s four-year incarceration, from the ... Read More »

March 6, 2023

Rights Deals: Zazie Todd, Teresa Wong + 11 more

By Cassandra Drudi

Greystone Books has acquired world English language rights to Zazie Todd’s Shiver: The Science of Helping Fearful Dogs. The nonfiction title is described as a book for owners of all types of fearful dogs – including ... Read More »

March 5, 2023

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