by Cassandra Drudi

Rights Deals: Amy Rosen, Benjamin Hertwig + two more

ECW Press’s Jack David and Kenna Barnes have acquired world rights to journalist and cookbook author Amy Rosen’s Off Menu. The debut novel is described as dishing out hilarity and heartbreak in equal measure as ... Read More »

August 22, 2023

Rights Deals: Martha Baillie, Erna Paris + three more

By Cassandra Drudi

Coach House Books editorial director Alana Wilcox has acquired world rights, and Granta has acquired U.K. and Commonwealth English rights, excluding Canada, to Martha Baillie’s There Is No Blue. The memoir is described as Baillie’s ... Read More »

August 17, 2023

Personnel changes: Fernwood Publishing

By Cassandra Drudi

Jazz Cook has joined Fernwood Publishing as acquisitions and development editor. They bring experience from the non-profit publishing sector and community ... Read More »

August 16, 2023

Personnel changes: Dundurn Press

By Cassandra Drudi

Dundurn Press is delighted to announce a number of changes in its editorial department including the expansion of its acquisitions team. Nicholas Freer joins as editorial assistant, supporting managing editor Elena Radic and project editor ... Read More »

August 16, 2023

New indie publisher Trace Press seeks to build community through translation

By Cassandra Drudi

Trace Press took root in a moment of upheaval: during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2019, publisher Nuzhat Abbas organized a collaborative work of translation about the massacre of political prisoners in Iran after the Iranian ... Read More »

August 16, 2023

Rights Deals: David Rotenberg and David Bouchard and Gordon Henderson

By Cassandra Drudi

At Bay Press has acquired world rights to David Rotenberg's four-book series The Shanghai Tetralogy. City Rising: From the Holy Mountain is the first novel in the series, which is described as following the epic ... Read More »

August 10, 2023

Beyond the cover: Canadian team bringing more manga to English readers

By Cassandra Drudi

Browsing the catalogues and bookshops of Japan, one quickly realizes that only a small fraction of manga published in Japanese makes it into the English-language market. And while some manga categories, such as teen action-adventure, ... Read More »

August 9, 2023

Rights Deals: Steven Sandor, Coltrane Seesequasis + one more

By Cassandra Drudi

Beacon Press’s Joanna Green has acquired world English and audio rights to Steven Sandor’s The Color of Hockey: Racism and Diversity in the Sport. The nonfiction book is described as examining the deeply ingrained racism ... Read More »

August 8, 2023

Paramount to sell S&S to KKR for $1.62 billion (U.S.)

By Cassandra Drudi

Private equity firm KKR has agreed to acquire Simon & Schuster from Paramount Gloabl for $1.62 billion U.S. News of the deal comes about three years after the parent company first announced it was looking ... Read More »

August 8, 2023

Coalition calls on new heritage minister to amend Copyright Act

By Cassandra Drudi

A coalition of groups representing more than 50,000 Canadian writers, visual artists, and publishers is calling on the new federal heritage minister to take action and amend the country's Copyright Act. Pascale St-Onge was named ... Read More »

August 8, 2023

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