by Cassandra Drudi

Rights Deals: Eric Andrew-Gee, JD Derbyshire + nine more

Random House Canada’s Craig Pyette has acquired Canadian rights to Eric Andrew-Gee’s The Neuro: How Two Brilliant Friends Mapped the Brain and Lost Each Other. The nonfiction book is described as the story of the ... Read More »

October 14, 2022

Agency change: Laberinto Press

By Cassandra Drudi

Ampersand Inc. is now the national sales agency for ... Read More »

October 13, 2022

Esi Edugyan, Wendy Proverbs win 2022 Victoria Book Prizes

By Cassandra Drudi

Esi Edugyan and Wendy Proverbs have been named the winners of the 20th annual Victoria Book Prizes. The winners were announced at an October 12 gala. Edugyan was named the winner of the City of ... Read More »

October 13, 2022

Bestselling author Peter Robinson dies at 72

By Cassandra Drudi

Bestselling British-Canadian crime novelist Peter Robinson has died. He was 72. The award-winning Robinson was a prolific writer, profiled here in Q&Q, who published more than 30 books over the course of a 35-year career, ... Read More »

October 12, 2022

Brian Thomas Isaac, Anne Carson among finalists for 2022 Governor General’s Literary Awards

By Cassandra Drudi

The Canada Council for the Arts announced 70 finalists for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Awards. Each finalist receives $1,000, with the winners in each of the 14 categories to receive $25,000. Publishers of the ... Read More »

October 12, 2022

Two Canadian authors among 2022 High Plains Book Awards winners

By Cassandra Drudi

Two Canadian authors are among the winners of this year’s High Plains Book Awards. The winner of the Indigenous writer category, Arnolda Dufour Bowes, also won the 2021 Danuta Gleed Literary Award for her short ... Read More »

October 11, 2022

Personnel change: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

At Penguin Random House Canada, Nicole Alfaro joins the special markets and new business ... Read More »

October 11, 2022

Tammy Armstrong wins 2022 HarperCollins/UBC Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

Nova Scotia writer Tammy Armstrong has been named the winner of the 2022 HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction for her novel Ursula. HarperCollins Canada has acquired world rights to the book, a historical novel ... Read More »

October 6, 2022

Rights Deals: Christine Estima, Dan Needles + three more

By Cassandra Drudi

House of Anansi Press’s Shirarose Wilensky has acquired world rights to Christine Estima’s The Arabs of Montreal. The short-fiction book is described as a collection of linked stories exploring the deep roots of the author’s ... Read More »

October 6, 2022

Three books honoured by 2022 First Nations Communities READ program

By Cassandra Drudi

This year, three books by Indigenous authors are being honoured by the annual First Nations Communities READ program. The program, run by the Ontario First Nations public library community under the Ontario Library Service (OLS), and sponsored ... Read More »

October 5, 2022

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