Claire Cavanagh is now an associate agent and foreign rights manager at The Rights Factory. Kodie ... Read More »
January 6, 2025
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
Naomi K. Lewis has been named acquiring editor at Freehand Books. She has worked previously as an editor and submissions coordinator at Freehand. She is the author of several books, including Tiny Lights for Travellers, which was a finalist for ... Read More »
December 19, 2024
Historical crime novelist Maureen Jennings, whose Detective Murdoch series inspired the long-running TV show Murdoch Mysteries, was named an officer of the Order of Canada this week, one of 88 new appointments to the Order. ... Read More »
December 19, 2024
In a restructuring of the production team, Penguin Random House Canada has the following changes to report: Christie Hanson has been promoted to the role of associate director, production. Trina Kehoe has been promoted to senior print ... Read More »
December 18, 2024
Three Canadian writers are among 10 international recipients of the Horror Writers Association's 2024 scholarship and diversity grants. Montreal writer Madeleine Pelletier has been named the winner of the $2,500 Mary W. Shelley Scholarship. The ... Read More »
December 18, 2024
Dundurn Press publisher Meghan Macdonald has acquired world rights to Ellis Scott’s Night Terminus. The novel is described as a sweeping literary fiction that follows one man’s life shaped by AIDS and his connections with ... Read More »
December 16, 2024
McClelland & Stewart’s Stephanie Sinclair has acquired world rights to David A. Robertson’s 52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous People on the Path to Healing. The nonfiction book is described as an ... Read More »
December 16, 2024
Five writers have been named recipients of the 2024 Canada Prizes for scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences. The annual awards were relaunched in November with a new structure after a hiatus that ... Read More »
December 12, 2024
To celebrate her store’s 35 years of bookselling, Blue Heron Books owner Shelley Macbeth turned to the archives. Although she has only owned the store since 2011, Macbeth has been involved in the business since ... Read More »
December 11, 2024
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