by Cassandra Drudi

Longlists announced for 2024 LCP Book Awards

The League of Canadian Poets has announced the longlists for its three annual book awards. The winner of each award receives $2,000. The Gerald Lampert Award honours debut books of poetry, while the Pat Lowther ... Read More »

April 10, 2024

Eleanor Catton, Claudia Dey, Janika Oza shortlisted for Carol Shields Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

Three Canadian authors are among the five writers shortlisted for the second Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. The $150,000 (U.S.) prize, named after the American-born and Canadian-based author Carol Shields, acknowledges, celebrates, and promotes the ... Read More »

April 9, 2024

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Malaika Eyoh has joined Penguin Random House Canada as marketing associate for Knopf Canada and Knopf ... Read More »

April 8, 2024

Distribution change: Lee and Low Books

By Cassandra Drudi

U.S. children’s book publisher Lee and Low Books Inc. is distributed ... Read More »

April 8, 2024

Distribution change: ECW Press

By Cassandra Drudi

Simon & Schuster will be the U.S. distributor for ECW Press as of September 1, 2024. Under ... Read More »

April 8, 2024

Rights deals: Etta Kaner, Margo MacDonald + two more

By Cassandra Drudi

Orca Book Publisher’s Kirstie Hudson has acquired world rights to Etta Kaner’s Do NOT Eat Like a Tiger Shark!: Wacky Ways Animals Slurp, Chomp and Gulp and If You Meet a Barfing Bird. The nonfiction ... Read More »

April 4, 2024

Personnel change: Transatlantic Agency

By Cassandra Drudi

Jo Ramsay has been appointed literary agent at Transatlantic Agency and will represent adult fiction and nonfiction authors to start their list. Ramsay previously worked as literary assistant to Carly Watters at P.S. Literary and ... Read More »

April 4, 2024

Indigo agrees to Trilogy takeover

By Cassandra Drudi

Indigo Books and Music has agreed to go private. The company announced on February 1 that Trilogy Retail Holdings Inc. and Trilogy Investments I.P. – personal holdings companies of Indigo board member Gerald W. Schwartz, ... Read More »

April 3, 2024

Book Making: Putting a fine point on it

By Cassandra Drudi

To call humour writer Eli Burnstein a dedicated splitter of hairs would be an understatement. In his forthcoming book, Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning (Union Square & Co., April ... Read More »

April 3, 2024

Distribution change: Willow Creek Press

By Cassandra Drudi

Effective April 1, 2024, Firefly Books, Distributed Lines is the Canadian distributor for Willow Creek Press, based in Minocqua, Wisconsin. Orders will be accepted as of April 1, and shipping of Willow Creek press titles will ... Read More »

April 3, 2024

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