by Cassandra Drudi

Agency changes: Barefoot Books and Insight Editions

Effective Jan. 1, 2025, Barefoot Books will be represented in Canada by the Canadian Manda Group. Barefoot Books will continue to be distributed by Jaguar Book Group. Effective Jan. 1, 2025, Insight Editions (including Weldon Owen) is represented in ... Read More »

January 14, 2025

Margie Wolfe transfers Second Story ownership to longtime GM Phuong Truong

By Cassandra Drudi

Second Story Press has a new owner and publisher. After decades at the helm, co-founder and publisher Margie Wolfe has transferred ownership of the Toronto-based feminist and social-justice-driven independent publisher to Phuong Truong. Truong has ... Read More »

January 13, 2025

Rights deals: Carol Matas and Vivek Shraya

By Cassandra Drudi

Scholastic Canada’s Diane Kerner has acquired, with Erin Haggett editing, world English and French North American rights to Carol Matas’s Mia & Max in an exclusive submission. The middle grade novel is described as telling ... Read More »

January 13, 2025

Rights deals: Heather Smith, Julie M. Green + six more

By Cassandra Drudi

Tundra Books’s Lynne Missen has acquired, at auction, world rights to Heather Smith’s My Best Friend is a Butternut Squash, illustrated by Kass Reich. The picture book is described as telling the story of a ... Read More »

January 10, 2025

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Megan Konzelman has been promoted to senior publicist, lifestyle, at Penguin Random House Canada, overseeing the cookbook and lifestyle lists. Erica Brandao has been promoted to assistant, insights and analytics on a six-month contract. Samantha Devotta has been ... Read More »

January 9, 2025

2025 Spring Preview: Fiction

By Cassandra Drudi

January 8, 2025

Rights deals: Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson, Mark Mackinnon + one more

By Cassandra Drudi

Signal publisher Doug Pepper has acquired world rights to Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson’s Breaking Point: How the Next Big Shift Puts Canada at Risk. The nonfiction book by the authors of The Big Shift ... Read More »

January 7, 2025

Distribution changes: Comme des géants, Les Éditions André Fontaine, La Pastèque

By Cassandra Drudi

As of April 15, 2025, Orca Book Distribution is handling the distribution of Comme des géants for selected French titles outside of Quebec and throughout North America. As of April 1, 2025, Orca Book Distribution is handling the distribution of Les ... Read More »

January 6, 2025

Personnel changes: The Rights Factory

By Cassandra Drudi

Claire Cavanagh is now an associate agent and foreign rights manager at The Rights Factory. Kodie ... Read More »

January 6, 2025

Rights deals: Melanie Florence, Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley + two more

By Cassandra Drudi

Orca Book Publishers’s Sarah Howden has acquired world rights to Melanie Florence’s Jazz. The middle-grade novel is described as being set in the world of Lo Simpson Starts a Revolution, and follows Lo’s former best ... Read More »

December 19, 2024

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