by Cassandra Drudi

Rights Deals: Susan Currie and Bex Glendining, Caroline Fernandez and Dharmali Patel + two more

Common Deer Press’s Kirsten Marion has acquired world rights to Susan Currie and Bex Glendining’s Iz The Apocalypse. The YA novel is described as the story of 14-year-old foster kid Iz Beaufort who fakes her ... Read More »

November 30, 2022

Personnel changes: Transatlantic Agency

By Cassandra Drudi

Marilyn Biderman, a senior literary agent at Transatlantic Agency, has been promoted to partner. Biderman also chairs the agency's professional development committee. Ed Maxwell has joined Transatlantic as literary agent on the U.S. team. Maxwell ... Read More »

November 30, 2022

John Lorinc wins $60,000 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy

By Cassandra Drudi

John Lorinc was named the winner of the 2022 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy at a private dinner in Toronto on November 29. Lorinc won the $60,000 prize for his book Dream States: Smart Cities, ... Read More »

November 29, 2022

Ben McNally Books opens in permanent home

By Cassandra Drudi

Toronto indie bookseller Ben McNally Books has opened in their new permanent home, the bookstore announced on Twitter. The store has had several temporary homes since learning in 2019 that they would have to move ... Read More »

November 28, 2022

Rights Deals: Jes Battis, Shelley Thompson + eight more

By Cassandra Drudi

ECW Press’s Jen Knoch and Jen Albert have acquired North American and Philippines rights to Jes Battis’s The Winter Knight. The fantasy novel is described as the story of an autistic college student who is ... Read More »

November 24, 2022

Paramount calls off deal to sell Simon & Schuster to Penguin Random House

By Cassandra Drudi

Simon & Schuster owner Paramount Global has called off the deal to sell the publisher to competitor Penguin Random House. The deal to sell Simon & Schuster to Penguin Random House (part of global publishing ... Read More »

November 23, 2022

Personnel change: Westwood Creative Artists

By Cassandra Drudi

Editor and journalist Sara Harowitz joins Westwood Creative Artists as literary agent. Based in Vancouver, ... Read More »

November 23, 2022

Aimée Craft, Sandra Laronde among 2021 Order of Ontario appointees

By Cassandra Drudi

Authors Aimée Craft and Sandra Laronde are among the 2021 appointees to the Order of Ontario. Craft and Laronde were two of 24 Ontarians officially invested into the order at a ceremony in Toronto on ... Read More »

November 23, 2022

Rights Deals: Lindsay Gloade-Raining Bird, Sara Mang + three more

By Cassandra Drudi

Nimbus Publishing managing editor Whitney Moran has acquired, in an exclusive submission, world rights to Cree journalist and podcast host Lindsay Gloade-Raining Bird’s Snow Day. The debut picture book is described as a heart-warming rhyming ... Read More »

November 21, 2022

Sarah Polley wins $10K Toronto Book Award

By Cassandra Drudi

Toronto writer and director Sarah Polley has won the 2022 Toronto Book Award for Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory. Polley's book, an essay collection that explores difficult stories from her ... Read More »

November 21, 2022

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