by Cassandra Drudi

Michelle Good’s Five Little Indians optioned for TV adaptation

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

Rights Deals: Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, Joe Schwarcz + one more

By Cassandra Drudi

MIT Press’s Matthew Browne has acquired world English rights to Tahira Rehmatullah and Akwasi Owusu-Bempah's Waiting to Inhale: Race, Cannabis, and the End of Prohibition. The nonfiction book looks at the past, present, and future of ... Read More »

June 7, 2021

Personnel change: The Rights Factory

By Cassandra Drudi

Milly Ruggiero has joined The Rights Factory as foreign rights manager. She previously ... Read More »

June 7, 2021

Rights Deals: Guy Gavriel Kay and audio rights for Karen Cleveland and Michelle Bilodeau

By Cassandra Drudi

Penguin Canada's Nicole Winstanley and Lara Hinchberger have acquired Canadian English rights to Guy Gavriel Kay’s All the Seas of the World. The historical fantasy novel is described as being set in the world of Kay's 2019 ... Read More »

June 3, 2021

Toronto indie A Different Booklist offering preview of new home

By Cassandra Drudi

Toronto bookseller A Different Booklist is set to unveil its new location. The downtown indie bookstore and African- and Caribbean-Canadian cultural centre will be moving across the street in 2022 to a four-storey heritage building ... Read More »

June 3, 2021

Distribution change: Sleeping Bear Press

By Cassandra Drudi

Thomas Allen & Son is the exclusive Canadian distributor for Sleeping Bear Press, effective immediately. The Michigan-based publisher of illustrated books for children is best known in Canada for bestselling titles such as Z is ... Read More »

June 2, 2021

Margaret Atwood to publish new book of essays

By Cassandra Drudi

Margaret Atwood has a new book coming out next year. McClelland & Stewart announced that they expect to publish Atwood's next book, Burning Questions: Essays 2004‒2021, in March 2022. The collection of essays is described ... Read More »

June 2, 2021

GG Winners Circle: Michelle Good (English-language fiction)

By Cassandra Drudi

Days after winning the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, Michelle Good has won the Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language fiction. Her debut novel, Five Little Indians (Harper Perennial/HarperCollins), follows the lives of five residential ... Read More »

June 1, 2021

Rights Deals: Minelle Mahtani, Matthew R. Morris, and Hal Niedzviecki

By Cassandra Drudi

Doubleday Canada’s Melanie Tutino has acquired in a pre-empt Canadian English rights to Minelle Mahtani’s Biting Our Tongues. The memoir is described as a meditation on the death of Mahtani’s Iranian Muslim mother Farideh to ... Read More »

May 31, 2021

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Michelle Good’s Five Little Indians optioned for TV adaptation

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

Rights Deals: Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, Joe Schwarcz + one more

Personnel change: The Rights Factory

Rights Deals: Guy Gavriel Kay and audio rights for Karen Cleveland and Michelle Bilodeau

Toronto indie A Different Booklist offering preview of new home

Distribution change: Sleeping Bear Press

Margaret Atwood to publish new book of essays

GG Winners Circle: Michelle Good (English-language fiction)

Rights Deals: Minelle Mahtani, Matthew R. Morris, and Hal Niedzviecki

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