Kids Can Press’s Katie Scott has acquired world rights to Barbara Nickel’s The Moon Is a Hammock, to be illustrated by Geraldo Valério. The picture book is described as a poetic exploration of the phases ... Read More »
July 14, 2025
Collaboration – and fun – are at the heart of Simon & Schuster Canada’s new children’s publishing program. The program, which will launch in fall 2026 with three titles, has been built from the ground ... Read More »
July 9, 2025
Louise Flaherty first encountered Amaruq: The Wolf as a teacher trainee in the Eastern Arctic Teacher Education program. Run by the Baffin Divisional Board of Education, the program was established in 1979 to train teachers ... Read More »
July 9, 2025
David Ross has been named editorial director of Hamish Hamilton Canada. In his new role, Ross will caretake, curate, and grow the Hamish Hamilton Canada list, while continuing to acquire fiction and nonfiction both for Hamish Hamilton Canada and ... Read More »
July 9, 2025
Turnstone Press’s Jamis Paulson has acquired world rights to David Jón Fuller’s Venue 13. The speculative novel is described as following Robert Laliberte as he pursues his dream to convert a run-down building into a ... Read More »
July 3, 2025
Penguin Canada’s Lara Hinchberger and Zainab Mirza have acquired Canadian English rights to Marina Nemat’s Mistress of the Persian Boarding House. The historical novel is described as a story of women banding together in the ... Read More »
June 26, 2025
Kelly Rankin has been named senior manager, customer operations at Penguin Random House Canada. Taylor Berry has been promoted to group director, in-market & digital sales. Serina Mercer has been hired as senior publicist for Penguin Random House ... Read More »
June 25, 2025
Dear Agony Editor, I’m discouraged by the lack of people reading books these days. Is there anything I can do to get them to read more? Signed, Disheartened Dear Disheartened, Take a book (it can ... Read More »
June 25, 2025
Montreal writer Chanel Sutherland has won the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Sutherland, who was named the winner of the regional prize for Canada and Europe last month, was named the winner of the £5,000 ... Read More »
June 25, 2025
Simon & Schuster Canada’s Nicole Winstanley has acquired Canadian rights to Iain Reid and Ellie Foumbi’s Unreal. The co-written novel is described as a surreal, philosophical suspense story about memory, identity, and ambition that follows ... Read More »
June 23, 2025
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