by Cassandra Drudi

Rights deals: Jesse Winter, Omar El Akkad + six more

HarperCollins Canada’s Lauren McKeon has acquired world rights to an as yet untitled book on wildfires by award-winning writer and photojournalist Jesse Winter. The nonfiction book is described as confronting the reality of climate-driven wildland ... Read More »

October 24, 2024

UTP acquires assets of Legas Publishing

By Cassandra Drudi

University of Toronto Press has acquired the assets of Legas Publishing, an Ottawa-based multilingual publishing company that specializes in books on language, culture, and semiotics. The acquisition, which includes the complete Legas catalogue of books, ... Read More »

October 23, 2024

Rights deals: Callie Rae O’Reilly and Thomas Wharton

By Cassandra Drudi

ECW Press’s Pia Singhal has acquired world rights to Callie Rae O’Reilly’s Don’t Let Me Down: A Memoir on the Duality of Abuse and Love. The memoir is described as an intensely vulnerable account of ... Read More »

October 21, 2024

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Polly Beel has joined Penguin Random House Canada as director, marketing and publicity for Random House Canada. Catherine Knowles has ... Read More »

October 17, 2024

Rights deals: Eva Jurczyk, foreign rights for Adrian Tomine + 10 more

By Cassandra Drudi

Doubleday Canada’s Bhavna Chauhan has acquired Canadian English rights to Eva Jurczyk’s Paris, 11th Arrondissement at auction. The novel is described as a psychological thriller about a woman wildly unlucky in love, until she falls ... Read More »

October 17, 2024

Kathryn Mockler and Raina Delisle win 2024 Victoria Book Prizes

By Cassandra Drudi

The Victoria Book Prize Society announced the winners of the 2024 Victoria Book Prizes at an event in the B.C. capital on Oct. 16. Kathryn Mockler was awarded the $5,000 City of Victoria Butler Book ... Read More »

October 17, 2024

Julie Sedivy

By Cassandra Drudi

Julie Sedivy on her lifelong love of language

October 16, 2024

Rights deals: Evelyn White, Dietrich Kalteis + nine more

By Cassandra Drudi

ECW Press’s Jen Sookfong Lee has acquired world rights to Evelyn White’s Love’s Labour. The biography is described as chronicling the complex, 44-year lesbian romance between Jane Rule (celebrated for her 1964 novel Desert of ... Read More »

October 15, 2024

Rights deals: Waubgeshig Rice, Josh Levine + eight more

By Cassandra Drudi

Random House Canada publisher Sue Kuruvilla has commissioned, in a six-figure, two-book agreement, Canadian English rights to two books by Waubgeshig Rice. The first is described as a nonfiction book on Indigenous representation, and the ... Read More »

October 10, 2024

ECW Press marks 50 years

By Cassandra Drudi

Jack David has told the origin story of ECW Press so many times he’s not even sure if it’s true anymore. In 1973, he was talking with some of his fellow grad students before a ... Read More »

October 9, 2024

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