by Cassandra Drudi

Distribution change: Willow Creek Press

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

Personnel change: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Deborah Sun de la Cruz has been promoted to executive editor of Penguin Canada. Sun de la Cruz has been at Penguin Random House Canada for more than 10 years and was named a 2021 ... Read More »

April 2, 2024

Agency and distribution change: Chalkboard Publishing

By Cassandra Drudi

As of April 1, Ampersand Inc. is the Canadian sales representative ... Read More »

April 2, 2024

Personnel change: P.S. Literary Agency

By Cassandra Drudi

Frances Yackel has joined P.S. Literary Agency as literary assistant. She ... Read More »

April 2, 2024

Rights deals: Moira Welsh and Scott Chantler

By Cassandra Drudi

ECW Press’s Pia Singhal has acquired world rights to award-winning investigative journalist Moira Welsh’s The Astonishing Lives of Older Women: In a World Meant for Money and Men. The nonfiction book is described as a ... Read More »

April 2, 2024

Rights Deals: Donald Sutherland, Joseph Wilson + three more

By Cassandra Drudi

Viking Canada has acquired Canadian rights to Donald Sutherland’s Made Up, But Still True. The memoir is described as a generation-defining book that catalogs with powerful detail the actor’s far too many brushes with death, ... Read More »

March 28, 2024

Distribution change: Rising Action Publishing

By Cassandra Drudi

Effective June 1, Simon & Schuster will ... Read More »

March 28, 2024

Book Publishers’ Association of Alberta launches accessible eBook collection

By Cassandra Drudi

A new online resource is bringing more than 800 accessible ebooks from Alberta to readers. Accessible Alberta: eBooks for Everyone, launched this week by the Book Publishers' Association of Alberta (BPAA), is touted as the ... Read More »

March 27, 2024

Naomi Klein shortlisted for Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction

By Cassandra Drudi

Naomi Klein has been shortlisted for the inaugural Women’s Prize for Non-fiction. The £30,000 ($50,900 CAD) award was established by the Women’s Prize Trust in 2023 to honour exceptional nonfiction written by women. Books written ... Read More »

March 27, 2024

Nicole Winstanley named president and publisher of S&S Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Simon & Schuster Canada has a new president and publisher. Nicole Winstanley will report to Simon & Schuster President & CEO Jonathan Karp, and she will also serve on S&S’s executive committee. Her first day ... Read More »

March 27, 2024

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