by Cassandra Drudi

Personnel changes: Toronto International Festival of Authors

Shagorika Easwar, Malcolm McLean,  Nalini Stewart, and Iris Tupholme have joined the Toronto International Festival of Authors board of directors. All will serve on the board, chaired by Charles Baillie, for a three-year term. Easwar’s ... Read More »

January 11, 2022

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

At Penguin Random House Canada, Lindsay Paterson has been promoted to the role of editorial director at Appetite by Random House. She will continue to acquire and edit her own titles as well as leading the editorial ... Read More »

January 11, 2022

Rights Deals: Rebecca Hirsch Garcia, Jess Taylor + five more

By Cassandra Drudi

ECW Press’s Jen Albert has acquired world English rights to O. Henry Prize-winning author Rebecca Hirsch Garcia’s The Girls Who Cried Diamonds and Other Evolutions in a two-book deal. The Girl Who Cried Diamonds is ... Read More »

January 11, 2022

Rights Deals: Christy Gibson, Ellen Anderson Penno + three more

By Cassandra Drudi

Hachette Go’s Dan Ambrosio has acquired world rights to physician and trauma specialist Christy Gibson’s The Modern Trauma Toolkit. The nonfiction book is described as an accessible, medical science-based exploration of how trauma impacts our ... Read More »

January 6, 2022

Rights Deals: Camille Hernández-Ramdwar, Jason Jobin + five more

By Cassandra Drudi

Dundurn Press’s Julie Mannell and Alison Isaac have acquired world rights to Camille Hernández-Ramdwar’s Suite as Sugar and Other Stories. The short story collection is described as featuring a range of settings, from Winnipeg winterscapes ... Read More »

January 3, 2022

Yann Martel, Tomson Highway among new Order of Canada appointees

By Cassandra Drudi

Award-winning author Yann Martel and celebrated playwright Tomson Highway are among five authors recently appointed to the Order of Canada. Saskatoon-based Martel, author of Life of Pi, was named a companion to the Order of ... Read More »

January 3, 2022

Personnel changes: Harbour Publishing and Douglas & McIntyre

By Cassandra Drudi

Marisa Alps, director of marketing at Harbour Publishing and Douglas & McIntyre, left the company on December 31, 2021, after 28 years to pursue other endeavours. With the departure of Alps a number of staff ... Read More »

January 3, 2022

Rights Deals: Vivek Shraya, Rebecca Sheir + seven more

By Cassandra Drudi

Owlkids’s publisher Karen Boersma has acquired world rights to Vivek Shraya’s Revenge of the Raccoons. The picture book, to be illustrated by Juliana Neufeld, is described as a tongue-in-cheeky “tail” – inspired by events in ... Read More »

December 16, 2021

2021 in memoriam: those we lost

By Cassandra Drudi

They were authors and activists, poets, editors, publishers, and members of the publishing community. Over the course of this past year, the world of Canadian letters has lost a number of notable individuals. As the ... Read More »

December 15, 2021