by Ryan Porter

Daily Deals: Nimbus acquires Rebecca Rose’s history of queer Halifax

Nimbus Publishing managing editor Whitney Moran has acquired world rights to Nova Scotia journalist Rebecca Rose’s Before the Parade: Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Halifax. The book will be a narrative history of the foundations of Halifax’s queer community, focusing on the city’s ... Read More »

December 12, 2018

Thrillers dominate the Toronto Public Library’s most-borrowed books of 2018 list, but an unexpected favourite is #1 … again

By Ryan Porter

A perennial favourite has topped the Toronto Public Library’s list of the most-borrowed books of 2018: The Official MTO Driver’s Handbook. The essential guide was borrowed 4,665 times in 2018 (as of Dec. 10). “It’s ... Read More »

December 12, 2018

Chelene Knight’s memoir Dear Current Occupant wins Vancouver Book Award

By Ryan Porter

Author, poet, and Room magazine managing editor Chelene Knight has won the $3,000 City of Vancouver Book Award for her memoir Dear Current Occupant (Book*hug). Knight recalls a childhood of precarious housing by writing letters ... Read More »

December 10, 2018

Daily Deals: German rights sold for The Marrow Thieves

By Ryan Porter

Heyne Verlag has acquired world German rights to Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves. The deal was arranged by Ron Eckel at Cooke International, in association with Clementine Gaisman at Intercontinental Literary Agency, on behalf of ... Read More »

December 7, 2018

Daily Deals: BuzzFeed editor Elamin Abdelmahmoud’s debut essay collection to M&S

By Ryan Porter

McClelland & Stewart publisher Jared Bland has acquired Canadian English rights to BuzzFeed Canada editor Elamin Abdelmahmoud’s Son of Elsewhere. The debut collection of personal essays grapples with notions of belonging, Blackness, masculinity, and Muslim-ness. It is scheduled for ... Read More »

December 6, 2018

Heather Read to service western Canada with sales agency Read and Co

By Ryan Porter

Veteran publishing sales rep Heather Read has founded her own agency, Read and Co, to service B.C., Alberta, and the Territories. The operation will formally launch Jan. 1. Read has been in publishing for 20 ... Read More »

December 6, 2018

Daily Deals: Failed Christian mission inspires new Joan Thomas novel for HarperCollins

By Ryan Porter

HarperCollins Canada editorial director Jennifer Lambert has acquired Canadian English rights to Joan Thomas’s next novel, Five Wives. The Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award winning writer’s fourth novel is based on the true story of the disastrous evangelical ... Read More »

December 5, 2018

Elizabeth Hay, Darrel McLeod among 10 finalists for RBC Taylor Prize

By Ryan Porter

The RBC Taylor Prize, one of Canada’s most prestigious prizes for non-fiction, announced its 10 longlisted books on Dec. 5. McClelland & Stewart dominated the longlist with three finalists: former Governor General David Johnston’s manifesto, ... Read More »

December 5, 2018

Reconciliation is driving public library demand for Indigenous reads

By Ryan Porter

Politics, drama, mystery, and art are among the subjects covered in the Toronto Public Library’s Native Peoples Collection. The variety among its 317 titles is impressive, but many of them have one thing in common: ... Read More »

November 29, 2018

Personnel change: Meg Wheeler promoted to associate agent at WCA

By Ryan Porter

Westwood Creative Artists’s Meg Wheeler has been promoted to associate agent, and will begin acquiring writers of literary and commercial fiction as well as non-fiction. She will continue to assist Bruce Westwood, with whom she ... Read More »

November 28, 2018

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Daily Deals: Nimbus acquires Rebecca Rose’s history of queer Halifax

Thrillers dominate the Toronto Public Library’s most-borrowed books of 2018 list, but an unexpected favourite is #1 … again

Chelene Knight’s memoir Dear Current Occupant wins Vancouver Book Award

Daily Deals: German rights sold for The Marrow Thieves

Daily Deals: BuzzFeed editor Elamin Abdelmahmoud’s debut essay collection to M&S

Heather Read to service western Canada with sales agency Read and Co

Daily Deals: Failed Christian mission inspires new Joan Thomas novel for HarperCollins

Elizabeth Hay, Darrel McLeod among 10 finalists for RBC Taylor Prize

Reconciliation is driving public library demand for Indigenous reads

Personnel change: Meg Wheeler promoted to associate agent at WCA

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