by Cassandra Drudi

Shortlist announced for 2023 Ontario Speaker’s Book Award

Six books have been shortlisted for the 2023 Ontario Speaker's Book Award. The shortlisted books are: Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada by Gabriel Allahdua with Edward Dunsworth (Between the Lines) ... Read More »

July 17, 2023

Canada Book Fund’s support for booksellers makes a difference to indies

By Cassandra Drudi

Although the amount of funding independent bookstores received this year as part of Canadian Heritage’s new two-year Support for Booksellers component of the Canada Book Fund varied significantly from store to store, the money provided ... Read More »

July 12, 2023

Tea time: Lesley Crewe’s newest book to launch with a custom blend

By Cassandra Drudi

Tea is very important to people in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. It’s no surprise, then, that there is “an awful lot of tea drinking going on” in the bestselling novels of Lesley Crewe, who has ... Read More »

July 12, 2023

Rights Deals: Kristy Jackson + four more

By Cassandra Drudi

HarperCollins Canada associate editor Yash Kesanakurthy has acquired world rights, in a pre-empt, to Kristy Jackson’s debut Mortified in a two-book deal. The middle-grade novel is described as a humorous story about a shy Cree girl’s ... Read More »

July 7, 2023

Dundurn Press founder Kirk Howard dies at 80

By Cassandra Drudi

Dundurn Press founder Kirk Howard has died. He was 80. Howard died in Newmarket, Ont., on June 30 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease, his family said in a death notice. He was born ... Read More »

July 6, 2023

S&S Canada president Kevin Hanson on the first 10 years of publishing in Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

A decade after starting Simon & Schuster’s publishing program in Canada, president and publisher Kevin Hanson is proud of what S&S has accomplished so far and is looking to expand on their success. “It’s been ... Read More »

July 5, 2023

Love, Death & Other Words: two indie booksellers team up to take horror and romance on the road

By Cassandra Drudi

Two new Toronto-based independent bookstore owners aim to recreate the anticipation and joy of elementary school book fairs for adults with a series of events across Ontario this year. In April 2022, Chris Krawczyk launched ... Read More »

July 5, 2023

Rights Deals: Chris MacDonald, Jamie Sharpe + three more

By Cassandra Drudi

ECW Press’s Michael Holmes has acquired world rights to Chris MacDonald’s Days and Days. The nonfiction book is described as simultaneously contemplating the importance of legendary UK punk outfit Leatherface, diving deeply into shoestring-budget travelogue, ... Read More »

July 4, 2023

Rights Deals: Nolan Chase, Carol Matas + eight more

By Cassandra Drudi

Crooked Lane’s Marcia Markland has acquired world rights to Nolan Chase’s A Lonesome Place for Dying. The novel is described as a regional mystery in which Ethan Brand, the newly appointed chief of police of ... Read More »

June 29, 2023

Cyberattack likely cost Indigo $19 million according to retailer’s year-end report

By Cassandra Drudi

The February ransomware attack that shut down Indigo's online sales platforms for weeks and put a three-day halt to electronic payments in stores has so far cost the company about $19 million. The company released ... Read More »

June 28, 2023

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