by Cassandra Drudi

Shop Local button connects readers to indie bookstores with a click

A new initiative aims to make it easier for Canadian readers to shop at their local bookstores. The Shop Local button, which Bookmanager is formally launching later this month, shows readers which local independents ... Read More »

March 18, 2021

Rights Deals: Debra Thompson, Wab Kinew + 11 more

By Cassandra Drudi

Nimbus Publishing’s managing editor Whitney Moran has acquired North American English and French rights to community leader and citizen activist Stephen Dorsey’s Black and White: An Intimate, Multicultural Take on “White Advantage” and the Paths ... Read More »

March 18, 2021

Address and distribution changes: University of Alberta Press

By Cassandra Drudi

The University of Alberta Press has moved to: 1-16 Rutherford Library South 11204 89 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6G 2J4 UAlberta Press has a new audio distribution partnership with ECW Press. Questions about the press's ... Read More »

March 18, 2021

Rights Deals: Joe Schwarcz, Brian Martin + two more

By Cassandra Drudi

ECW Press’s Jack David has acquired world rights to Joe Schwarcz’s Science Goes Viral. The popular science title is described as demystifying the facts around COVID-19 and highlighting important science marching on in other areas. ... Read More »

March 15, 2021

Distribution change: Inhabit Media

By Cassandra Drudi

Orca Book Publishers will be taking on Canadian distribution and sales representation of Inhabit ... Read More »

March 15, 2021

Rights Deals: Joanna Chiu, Janice Lynn Mather + 8 more

By Cassandra Drudi

House of Anansi has acquired world rights to Toronto Star journalist and winner of the 2012 Human Rights Press Award Joanna Chiu’s China Unbound: A New World Disorder. The nonfiction book is described as tracking ... Read More »

March 11, 2021

Distribution change: Durvile & UpRoute Books

By Cassandra Drudi

As of March 1, Durvile & UpRoute Books (Durvile Publications) began sales-representation agreements with Read & Company in B.C., Alberta, Yukon, and N.W.T.; Rorie Bruce Agency in Manitoba and Saskatchewan; and Michael Martin & Associates ... Read More »

March 11, 2021

Jody Wilson-Raybould releasing political memoir this fall

By Cassandra Drudi

Independent MP Jody Wilson-Raybould is releasing a political memoir this fall. Wilson-Raybould served as the first federal Indigenous justice minister and attorney general before she was shuffled to veterans affairs and left the Liberals to ... Read More »

March 10, 2021

Rights Deals: Foreign rights for Clifford Jackman and Shashi Bhat

By Cassandra Drudi

Canelo’s Craig Lye has acquired U.K. and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, for Giller-longlisted author Clifford Jackman’s The Braver Thing. The novel is set in 1721 at the end of the golden age of piracy, in ... Read More »

March 8, 2021

Personnel changes: Penguin Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Associate editor Deborah Sun de la Cruz has been promoted to editor. She acquires literary and commercial fiction, working with authors such as Lindsay Wong, Thea Lim, Sophie Mackintosh, K-Ming Chang, Karma Brown, Clare Pooley, ... Read More »

March 8, 2021

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Shop Local button connects readers to indie bookstores with a click

Rights Deals: Debra Thompson, Wab Kinew + 11 more

Address and distribution changes: University of Alberta Press

Rights Deals: Joe Schwarcz, Brian Martin + two more

Distribution change: Inhabit Media

Rights Deals: Joanna Chiu, Janice Lynn Mather + 8 more

Distribution change: Durvile & UpRoute Books

Jody Wilson-Raybould releasing political memoir this fall

Rights Deals: Foreign rights for Clifford Jackman and Shashi Bhat

Personnel changes: Penguin Canada

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