by Cassandra Drudi

Alberta pauses ministerial order affecting school library books

The Alberta government has hit pause on a controversial ministerial order that would have affected the books school libraries were able to make available to students this fall. The ministerial order, which was presented in ... Read More »

September 3, 2025

Tea Gerbeza, Roza Nozari, Ziyad Saadi shortlisted for 2025 Dayne Ogilvie Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

Tea Gerbeza, Roza Nozari, and Ziyad Saadi have been named the finalists for the 2025 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers. The Writers' Trust of Canada announced the three finalists for this year's award ... Read More »

September 3, 2025

Personnel change: P.S. Literary Agency

By Cassandra Drudi

Alexandra Grana has joined P.S. Literary Agency as associate literary agent. ... Read More »

September 2, 2025

Rights deal: Lorna Schultz Nicholson and Rick Hansen

By Cassandra Drudi

Owlkids Books’s Jennifer Stokes has acquired world rights to Lorna Schultz Nicholson and Rick Hansen’s The Man In Motion: How Rick Hansen’s World Tour Helped Break Down Barriers for People with Disabilities, illustrated by Emma ... Read More »

September 2, 2025

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Megan Konzelman has been promoted to publicity manager at Penguin Random House Canada. Curtis Samuel has (re)joined PRHC as publicity manager. Kim ... Read More »

September 2, 2025

Eight books shortlisted for 2025 Cundill History Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

Eight books spanning a range of topics, including the German Peasants' War of 1524, the Haitian Revolution of the 1790s, and the international Wages for Housework campaign of the 1970s, have been shortlisted for the ... Read More »

September 2, 2025

Agony Editor: Help! The blurb’s boring. What do I do?

By Cassandra Drudi

Dear Agony Editor, I asked a writer whose work I admire to blurb my upcoming novel. He kindly agreed, but what he sent back was so boring and generic, I wonder if he even read ... Read More »

August 20, 2025

Rights deal: Jean Marc Ah-Sen and André Babyn

By Cassandra Drudi

Enfield & Wizenty has acquired world rights to Jean Marc Ah-Sen and André Babyn’s Slodethland ’66. The novel is described as set in a 1966 New York City awash in destitution and crime that follows ... Read More »

August 19, 2025

Rights deal: tonia laird

By Cassandra Drudi

Simon & Schuster Canada senior editor katherena vermette and children’s editor Yashaswi Kesanakurthy have acquired world English rights to tonia laird’s Black Dog. The YA novel is described as the first book in a tense, ... Read More »

August 14, 2025

Shop Talk: Good Dog Books

By Cassandra Drudi

Good Dog Books 724 King Street Bridgewater, Nova Scotia The trio behind Good Dog Books first sold books together at Lunenburg Bound, one of three independent bookstores in the seaside tourist town of Lunenburg, Nova ... Read More »

August 13, 2025

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