by Cassandra Drudi

Rights deal: Tom Ryan

A + E Studios producer Peter Johnson has acquired television rights to Tom Ryan’s novel We Had a Hunch. Ryan will executive produce. He is represented by Echo Lake Entertainment, Samantha Haywood and Amy Tompkins ... Read More »

October 14, 2025

Rights deals: Cale Plett, Theresa Therrien + four more

By Cassandra Drudi

Delacort’s Alison Romig has acquired world English rights to Cale Plett’s Stranglehold. The YA book is described as a queer YA horror novel in which, after two tragic accidents that leave a nonbinary teen’s best ... Read More »

October 9, 2025

Omar El Akkad named 2025 National Book Award finalist

By Cassandra Drudi

Canadian writer Omar El Akkad has been named a finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. The National Book Awards are annual American literary prizes administered by the National Book Foundation, and honour the ... Read More »

October 9, 2025

In Resilience – Ice Huts and Root Cellars, photographer Richard Johnson highlights overlooked architectural diamonds

By Cassandra Drudi

When people come into the Richard Johnson Studio in Toronto and express an interest in purchasing a print of one of his photographs of ice huts, Lucie Bergeron-Johnson, his widow and art trustee, puts them ... Read More »

October 8, 2025

Rights deal: Odette Auger

By Cassandra Drudi

Scribner Canada’s katherena vermette has acquired Canadian English rights to Odette Auger’s Eyebright in a pre-empt. The novel is described as a timeless study of perception, illness, art, and legacy, following painter Yvonne from her ... Read More »

October 6, 2025

Souvankham Thammavongsa, Emma Donoghue among authors shortlisted for 2025 Giller Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

One former prize winner and two formerly shortlisted authors are among the five authors shortlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. The winner of the $100,000 prize for fiction will be announced at an event in ... Read More »

October 6, 2025

ACP launches Certified Canadian Publisher seal

By Cassandra Drudi

The Association of Canadian Publishers is launching a new program that will help readers identify books from Canadian-owned publishers. Under the Certified Canadian Publisher program, books from independent Canadian-owned publishers – who publish 80 per ... Read More »

October 3, 2025

Rights deals: Dan Stanton, Julie Flett + five more

By Cassandra Drudi

University of Toronto Press’s Daniel Quinlan has acquired world rights to Dan Stanton’s Seesoid: A Spy’s Perspective on Combatting Foreign Interference for the Aevo imprint. The nonfiction book is described as covering Mr. Stanton’s career as ... Read More »

October 2, 2025

Personnel change: Transatlantic Agency

By Cassandra Drudi

Kate Moody has joined Transatlantic Agency as an assistant to Samantha Haywood and assistant agent. Moody previously worked at The Rights Factory and will be sharing clients with senior agents as she apprentices at Transatlantic. ... Read More »

October 2, 2025