by Cassandra Drudi

Personnel changes: Canadian Manda Group

Milana Madzarac has joined the sales team in the role of account manager, online retail, at the Canadian Manda Group. Madzarac previously worked for several years as a sales associate for Indigo Books & Music. ... Read More »

June 21, 2021

Personnel change: Kids Can Press

By Cassandra Drudi

Allison King joins Kids Can Press on a one-year contract as U.S. and international accounts manager, reporting to sales and marketing director Sarah Labrie. Prior to her most recent position as account executive at a ... Read More »

June 21, 2021

Rights Deals: Anne Renaud, Lorna Schultz Nicholson + eight more

By Cassandra Drudi

Reycraft Books’s Wiley Blevins has acquired world English rights to Anne Renaud’s Ferdinand Cheval: The Postman Who Delivered a Palace. The picture book is described as a biography of Cheval, the forerunner of the Naïve ... Read More »

June 17, 2021

Souvankham Thammavongsa wins $20,000 Trillium Book Award

By Cassandra Drudi

Souvankham Thammavongsa has won the $20,000 Trillium Book Award for her short-fiction collection How to Pronounce Knife (McClelland & Stewart). Poet Jody Chan was awarded the Trillium Book Award for Poetry for her collection, Sick ... Read More »

June 16, 2021

Rights Deals: Michael Wilson, Jen Gerson + two more

By Cassandra Drudi

University of Toronto Press has acquired world rights to the late Honourable Michael Wilson's Something within Me: A Personal and Political Memoir. The memoir is described as a candid account of Wilson's years as federal ... Read More »

June 14, 2021

Distribution change: Baker & Taylor

By Cassandra Drudi

Baker & Taylor Publisher Services has announced a new sales and distribution client, with Canadian sales representation to the trade provided by Ampersand Inc. and by Parasource for the Christian market. Effective July 1, BTPS ... Read More »

June 14, 2021

Personnel change: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Talia Abramson has joined the design team at Penguin Random House Canada as a full-time junior designer. She was previously with ... Read More »

June 14, 2021

Rights Deals: Thomas King, Eric Walters + nine more

By Cassandra Drudi

HarperCollins Canada’s Iris Tupholme has acquired Canadian English rights to Thomas King’s Deep House. The novel, the sixth book in the award-winning DreadfulWater series, is described as the story of Cherokee ex-cop Thumps DreadfulWater who ... Read More »

June 10, 2021

Michelle Good’s Five Little Indians optioned for TV adaptation

By Cassandra Drudi

Just weeks after winning the Amazon Canada First Novel Award and the Governor General's award for fiction, Michelle Good's debut novel Five Little Indians (HarperCollins Canada) has been optioned for the screen by Prospero Pictures ... Read More »

June 9, 2021

Anakana Schofield wins €15,000 Irish Novel of the Year

By Cassandra Drudi

Irish-Canadian novelist Anakana Schofield has won the €15,000 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award. Schofield won the award for Bina: A Novel in Warnings (Knopf Canada), a novel comprised of the scribbles the ... Read More »

June 9, 2021

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Personnel changes: Canadian Manda Group

Personnel change: Kids Can Press

Rights Deals: Anne Renaud, Lorna Schultz Nicholson + eight more

Souvankham Thammavongsa wins $20,000 Trillium Book Award

Rights Deals: Michael Wilson, Jen Gerson + two more

Distribution change: Baker & Taylor

Personnel change: Penguin Random House Canada

Rights Deals: Thomas King, Eric Walters + nine more

Michelle Good’s Five Little Indians optioned for TV adaptation

Anakana Schofield wins €15,000 Irish Novel of the Year

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