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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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