by Cassandra Drudi

Rights Deals: Joe Schwarcz, Brian Martin + two more

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

Rights Deals: Erica Alini, foreign rights for Lisa Bird-Wilson and Elamin Abdelmahmoud + five more

By Cassandra Drudi

Wattpad Books’s Deanna McFadden has acquired world rights to Fallon MacLean’s The Stiletto Sisterhood. The novel is described as the story of the trials and triumphs of five twentysomethings whose friendship is put to the ... Read More »

March 4, 2021

Waubgeshig Rice, Jennifer David’s new podcast Storykeepers is an audio book club on Indigenous lit

By Cassandra Drudi

Storykeepers, a new monthly podcast about Indigenous literature by co-hosts and authors Waubgeshig Rice and Jennifer David, aims to bring conversations about Indigenous books to a wider audience in an audio book-club format. “We are ... Read More »

March 4, 2021

Rights Deals: Nine foreign rights deals

By Cassandra Drudi

Rights to Dave Zarum's NBA 75: The Definitive History have been sold in Poland, Germany, France, and China. The deals were arranged by Firefly Books's Parisa Michailidis. Rights for books 1-8 in the TV-to-book adaptation ... Read More »

March 1, 2021

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