by Cassandra Drudi

Rights Deals: Jennifer Robertson, Stephen Kimber + 4 more

HarperCollins Canada’s Iris Tupholme has acquired Canadian rights to Jennifer Robertson and Stephen Kimber’s Bitcoin Widow: Love, Betrayal, and the Missing Millions. The memoir is described as exploring the the fairytale romance Robertson shared with ... Read More »

July 22, 2021

Personnel changes: The Rights Factory

By Cassandra Drudi

Kaitlin Sooklal has been promoted from editorial assistant to assistant agent at The Rights Factory. Talya Pardo has been ... Read More »

July 20, 2021

Emily St. John Mandel to publish sixth novel in 2022

By Cassandra Drudi

Award-winning author Emily St. John Mandel is back with a sixth novel that will be published by HarperCollins Canada next spring. Sea of Tranquility will be published in April 2022. Picador and Alfred A. Knopf ... Read More »

July 20, 2021

Rights Deals: Merilyn Simonds, Laurie Dalton + two more

By Cassandra Drudi

ECW Press’s Susan Renouf has acquired world rights to Merilyn Simonds’s Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay. The nonfiction book is described as the first major biography of the ... Read More »

July 19, 2021

Distribution change: Batsford and Collins & Brown

By Cassandra Drudi

Effective July 1, 2021, Batsford and Collins & Brown (previously distributed by Sterling Publishing) will be distributed ... Read More »

July 19, 2021

Distribution change: teNeues Publishing

By Cassandra Drudi

Effective July 1, 2021, teNeues Publishing will be distributed by National Book Network, as a ... Read More »

July 19, 2021

Personnel change: McClelland & Stewart

By Cassandra Drudi

Chimedum Ohaegbu is joining McClelland & Stewart as editorial assistant. She is currently the managing editor and poetry editor of Uncanny magazine and previously ... Read More »

July 19, 2021

Rights Deals: Richard Van Camp, Zalika Reid-Benta + 13 more

By Cassandra Drudi

Renegade Arts Entertainment has acquired world rights to Richard Van Camp's Roth. The graphic novel is described as the first in the Wheetago War series that tells the story of Ross, a local hero known ... Read More »

July 15, 2021

Personnel changes: Orca Book Publishers

By Cassandra Drudi

Sarah Hartley has joined Orca Book Publishers in the new role of education sales manager. Formerly at Scholastic Canada, Hartley is based in Toronto. Jacqui Thomas, formerly at Heritage House, has joined Orca’s production team as a ... Read More »

July 15, 2021

Rights Deals: Sofia Mostaghimi and Tessa Barbosa

By Cassandra Drudi

Random House Canada’s Anne Collins has acquired Canadian English rights to Sofia Mostaghimi’s Desperada. The novel is described as the story of a young Iranian-Canadian woman who, after the sudden death of her sister, quits ... Read More »

July 12, 2021

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