by Cassandra Drudi

Rights deals: Dennis Bock, Robert Hough + six more

HarperCollins Canada editor-in-chief Jennifer Lambert has acquired Canadian English rights to Dennis Bock’s Strangers at the Red Door in an exclusive submission. The novel is described as featuring three characters who cross paths in a Chinese train ... Read More »

January 23, 2025

Five books named to 2025 Canada Reads shortlist

By Cassandra Drudi

Five books have been named to the 2025 Canada Reads shortlist. The annual battle of the books is set to take place from March 17-20, and is looking this year for "one book to change ... Read More »

January 23, 2025

Agency and distribution changes: Baker & Taylor Publisher Services

By Cassandra Drudi

Baker & Taylor Publisher Services has signed U.S. and Canada sales representation and distribution agreements with six publishers. All of the agreements come into effect this year. The publishers are: Bad Hand Books, effective March ... Read More »

January 22, 2025

Second Story Press’s Margie Wolfe reflects on a life in women’s publishing

By Cassandra Drudi

As soon as Margie Wolfe started telling authors that she would no longer be the owner and publisher of Second Story Press, the manuscripts started coming in. Wolfe, who has been at the helm of ... Read More »

January 22, 2025

2025 Spring Preview: Nonfiction

By Cassandra Drudi

2025 Spring preview: Fiction 2025 Spring ... Read More »

January 22, 2025

Vancouver nonprofit Upstart & Crow launches new poet-in-residence program

By Cassandra Drudi

Vancouver-based literary nonprofit Upstart & Crow has launched a new poet-in-residence program. The residency includes a $4,000 grant, access to the upstairs studio of Upstart & Crow's bookstore on Granville Island for at least one ... Read More »

January 21, 2025

Rights deal: Kate Cayley

By Cassandra Drudi

Coach House Books’s Alana Wilcox has acquired world rights to Kate Cayley’s Property. The literary novel is described as taking place over the course of a single day in an uneasily gentrifying urban neighbourhood, where paths ... Read More »

January 20, 2025

Personnel change: Second Story Press

By Cassandra Drudi

Long-time Second Story Press marketing and promotions manager Emma Rodgers has been promoted ... Read More »

January 20, 2025

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Zainab Mirza has been promoted to editorial assistant at Penguin Canada. Alison Thompson has joined ... Read More »

January 20, 2025

New Star Books to close

By Cassandra Drudi

New Star Books is closing down. In a statement posted to the Vancouver-based independent press's website earlier this week, publisher Rolf Maurer said he had made the "painful decision" to wind down the press's operations. ... Read More »

January 16, 2025

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