by Cassandra Drudi

Rights deals: Nicholas Herring

Goose Lane Editions fiction editor Bethany Gibson has acquired world rights to Nicholas Herring’s Your Breath in Charcoal. The novel is described as set in Atlantic Canada, on P.E.I., and centering around Knickle, a young, ... Read More »

March 3, 2025

Tim Cook among authors shortlisted for 2025 Lionel Gelber Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

Ottawa-based historian and author Tim Cook is one of five authors shortlisted for the 2025 Lionel Gelber Prize. The $50,000 award, presented annually by the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, ... Read More »

March 3, 2025

Poet Bänoo Zan wins 2025 Freedom to Read Award

By Cassandra Drudi

Poet, translator, and essayist Bänoo Zan has been named the recipient of the 2025 Freedom to Read Award. The annual award is presented during Freedom to Read Week each year by the Writers' Union of ... Read More »

March 3, 2025

Rights deals: Diane Terrana and Michelle Swallow

By Cassandra Drudi

Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Random House USA’s Caitlin Tutterow has acquired world rights to Diane Terrana’s I Wonder Why, illustrated by Heather Brockman Lee. The picture book is described as following a curious child discovering wonder ... Read More »

February 27, 2025

Communication with stakeholders key as tariff uncertainty continues: Friesens

By Cassandra Drudi

As the North American economy continues to be held hostage by the ongoing uncertainty over when – or if – the United States will implement its proposed 25 per cent tariffs on goods crossing into ... Read More »

February 26, 2025

‘A really electrifying time to be here’: Nicole Winstanley on her new role at Simon & Schuster Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Nicole Winstanley is excited. The Simon & Schuster Canada president and publisher is talking about a forthcoming title from the company’s new children’s publishing program. It’s the first acquisition by children’s editor Yashaswi Kesanakurthy, and ... Read More »

February 26, 2025

Rights deals: Myrtle Henry Sodhi, Waubgeshig Rice + one more

By Cassandra Drudi

Dundurn Press publisher Meghan Macdonald has acquired world rights to Myrtle Henry Sodhi’s We’ve Been Here Before. The literary novel is described as following the matrilineal history of the author’s great-grandmother across four generations in ... Read More »

February 24, 2025

Rights deals: Wayne Johnston, Candas Jane Dorsey + eight more

By Cassandra Drudi

Knopf Canada executive editor Kiara Kent has acquired Canadian English rights to Wayne Johnston’s The Novice of Holloway Hall. The novel is described as a tragicomic tale about a large, wealthy Newfoundland family in which ... Read More »

February 20, 2025

Personnel change: Thornapple Press

By Cassandra Drudi

Jeffrey Werner has been promoted to creative director at Thornapple Press and its parent company, the communications firm Talk Science to Me, effective March 1, 2025. Werner has worked with Talk Science to Me as ... Read More »

February 20, 2025