by Cassandra Drudi

New indie cookbook press Good Egg Books launches to international acclaim

A new Toronto-based small press is bringing small, inexpensive, and functional cookbooks to home chefs. Good Egg Books is the brainchild of bookseller cum publisher Mika Bareket, who ran a food and kitchen store called ... Read More »

May 27, 2021

HarperCollins Canada to publish new Emma Donoghue novel

By Cassandra Drudi

Award-winning author Emma Donoghue has a new book coming out next summer. HarperCollins Canada's senior vice president and executive publisher Iris Tupholme has acquired Canadian rights to Haven. Little, Brown and Picador have acquired U.S. ... Read More »

May 26, 2021

Personnel change: Arsenal Pulp Press

By Cassandra Drudi

Catharine Chen is the new in-house editor at Arsenal Pulp Press, effective May 25. Chen, a graduate of the University of British Columbia's MFA program in creative writing, is an editor, dramaturge, and writer, whose ... Read More »

May 25, 2021

Personnel change: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Leah Persaud will join the sales team as group sales coordinator. She has been with the company since August 2019 as executive ... Read More »

May 25, 2021

Personnel changes: Kids Can Press

By Cassandra Drudi

Yasemin Uçar has been promoted to the newly created role of editorial development director and will play a key role in scouting and developing new talent, particularly those with series, franchise, and page-to-screen potential. She ... Read More »

May 25, 2021

Rights Deals: Vivek Shraya, Kim Fu, and five more

By Cassandra Drudi

McClelland & Stewart’s Anita Chong has acquired Canadian English rights to Vivek Shraya’s The Hystericals. The novel is described as speculative fiction set in a dystopian society where, faced with terrible oppression, women begin to ... Read More »

May 20, 2021

Canadians read more broadly in 2020, BookNet reports

By Cassandra Drudi

Despite having an increase in leisure time in 2020 compared to the previous year, Canadians didn't read more frequently in 2020, according to BookNet's Canadian Leisure and Reading Study 2020. Canadians read more broadly across ... Read More »

May 20, 2021

Joseph Heath wins $50,000 Donner Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

Joseph Heath is the winner of the 2020 Donner Prize for his book, The Machinery of Government: Public Administration and the Liberal State (Oxford University Press). The $50,000 prize celebrates Canadian public policy writing. In ... Read More »

May 19, 2021

Rights Deals: Foreign rights for Leslie Kern and Erin Steuter

By Cassandra Drudi

Shanghai People’s Publishing House has acquired Chinese rights to Leslie Kern’s Feminist City. The nonfiction book is described as a collection of essays that combine memoir, theory, pop culture, and geography and invite the reader ... Read More »

May 17, 2021