by Cassandra Drudi

Print book sales up in games, education, and thrillers in 2020: BookNet report

The story of print book sales in Canada in 2020 in some ways mirrors the story of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic: print book sales were down overall, but some categories, including games, education, and thrillers, ... Read More »

April 1, 2021

Rights Deals: Mark Messier, Brandi Morin + 13 more

By Cassandra Drudi

Simon & Schuster Canada’s senior vice-president and publisher Jennifer Bergstrom, president and publisher Kevin Hanson, and senior editor Justin Stoller, and Gallery Books’s assistant editor Max Meltzer have acquired North American rights to Mark Messier’s ... Read More »

April 1, 2021

Personnel change: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Rachel Guglielmelli is joining the production team at Penguin Random House Canada in the role of digital ... Read More »

April 1, 2021

Personnel change: The Rights Factory

By Cassandra Drudi

Karmen Wells has joined The Rights Factory as an associate agent for film and TV. She will continue to edit ... Read More »

March 31, 2021

Esi Edugyan to deliver 2021 Massey Lectures on race and art

By Cassandra Drudi

Award-winning novelist Esi Edugyan will deliver this year’s CBC Massey Lectures. In Out of the Sun: On Art, Race, and the Future, Edugyan will examine how Black histories have been portrayed in art, through the ... Read More »

March 29, 2021

Rights Deals: Foreign rights for Ian Williams and Reema Patel + four more

By Cassandra Drudi

Level Best Books has acquired Canadian, U.S., and U.K. rights to Gabrielle St George’s How to Murder a Marriage. The mystery novel is described as the story of bestselling advice author Gina Malone, an empty ... Read More »

March 29, 2021

Rights Deals: Matt James, Michael Hill + three more

By Cassandra Drudi

Holiday House/Porter’s Neal Porter has acquired world rights to Governor General’s Literary Award-winning author-illustrator Matt James’s Tadpoles. The picture book is described as the story of a father and son's walk to an ephemeral pond ... Read More »

March 25, 2021

Sales double for Saskatoon indie bookseller during pandemic

By Cassandra Drudi

A Saskatoon independent bookseller credits the COVID-19 pandemic’s shakeup of retail habits with turning his business around and doubling sales in 2020. Peter Garden, the owner of alternative bookstore Turning the Tide in the city’s ... Read More »

March 25, 2021

Distribution change: Flamingo Rampant

By Cassandra Drudi

Orca Book Publishers will begin distribution and sales representation of Flamingo Rampant books to the trade in Canada and the U.S. as of April 1. Flamingo Rampant was founded by S. Bear Bergman in 2011 ... Read More »

March 24, 2021

Rights Deals: Peter Goddard + Kyle Edwards

By Cassandra Drudi

House of Anansi’s Douglas Richmond has acquired world rights to Canadian music critic and journalist Peter Goddard’s My Private Rock ’n’ Roll. The memoir is described as a look back at Goddard’s haunts and their ... Read More »

March 22, 2021

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