by Ryan Porter

Daily Deals: Maria Campbell to M&S in two-book deal

McClelland and Stewart publisher Jared Bland has acquired North American rights, including audio, to two books by Maria Campbell. Both will be collections of Cree tales from the oral tradition, transcribed from tape and translated ... Read More »

August 20, 2020

Nimbus scores English rights to biography of Anne of Green Gables’s Japanese translator

By Ryan Porter

As popular as Anne of Green Gables is in Japan, the novel's Japanese translator, Hanako Muraoka, has a following in her own right. Nimbus Publishing has announced an English translation of her bestselling biography, written ... Read More »

August 20, 2020

Daily Deals: Knopf Canada acquires multi-character take on Lincoln assassination

By Ryan Porter

Knopf Canada’s Pamela Murray has acquired North American English rights to Julian Sher’s “The Wrath to Come”: Canada and the Civil War Plots against Lincoln. The multi-character narrative weaves the stories of eight men and women, ... Read More »

August 19, 2020

Former CEO of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment reports brisk business at new Amherstburg bookstore River Bookshop

By Ryan Porter

Opening a new bookshop amid the unpredictability of COVID isn’t something everyone has the stomach for. But when Richard Peddie, former president and CEO of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, was reached at River Bookshop ... Read More »

August 19, 2020

Academic presses navigate “watershed moment” for digital texts

By Ryan Porter

Along with Zoom, TikTok, Houseparty, and Purell, Canada’s Top Hat virtual courseware platform has received unprecedented interest amid the havoc wreaked by COVID-19. As post-secondary schools in North America largely move online for fall, inquiries ... Read More »

August 17, 2020

Daily Deals: Michelle Wamboldt’s debut historical fiction, inspired by her grandmother’s life, to Vagrant

By Ryan Porter

Vagrant Press managing editor Whitney Moran has acquired world rights to Nova Scotia–based Michelle Wamboldt’s debut novel, The Birth Road. The novel, inspired by the author’s grandmother’s life, is about a young woman who leaves behind ... Read More »

August 17, 2020

Director Ross Manson on André Alexis’s new pandemic-themed audiodrama trilogy

By Ryan Porter

At the height of the COVID-19 lockdown, André Alexis found inspiration. Over the summer, he wrote three monologues from the perspective of people living in a pandemic in Toronto. The result is Metamorphosis: a Viral ... Read More »

August 13, 2020

Daily Deals: Random House acquires memoir by Gambian pageant winner who survived sexual assault

By Ryan Porter

Random House’s Anne Collins has acquired English-language Canadian rights to Toufah Jallow’s Toufah: the Pageant, the President, and the Woman Who Inspired an African #MeToo Movement in an exclusive submission. Writing with Kim Pittaway, the ... Read More »

August 13, 2020

Daily Deals: Uzma Jalaluddin’s new romance to HarperCollins Canada in two-book deal

By Ryan Porter

HarperCollins Canada’s senior editorial director Jennifer Lambert has acquired world English rights to Uzma Jalaluddin’s Hana Khan Carries On as part of a two-book deal. The book is described as You've Got Mail set in ... Read More »

August 10, 2020

Bestsellers: BLM essay collection Until We Are Free resonates amidst civil-rights revolution

By Ryan Porter

As calls to dismantle systemic anti-Black racism hit a global boiling point, books by Black Canadian writers shot to the top of Bookmanager’s Canadiana chart. The essay collection Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black ... Read More »

August 10, 2020

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Daily Deals: Maria Campbell to M&S in two-book deal

Nimbus scores English rights to biography of Anne of Green Gables’s Japanese translator

Daily Deals: Knopf Canada acquires multi-character take on Lincoln assassination

Former CEO of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment reports brisk business at new Amherstburg bookstore River Bookshop

Academic presses navigate “watershed moment” for digital texts

Daily Deals: Michelle Wamboldt’s debut historical fiction, inspired by her grandmother’s life, to Vagrant

Director Ross Manson on André Alexis’s new pandemic-themed audiodrama trilogy

Daily Deals: Random House acquires memoir by Gambian pageant winner who survived sexual assault

Daily Deals: Uzma Jalaluddin’s new romance to HarperCollins Canada in two-book deal

Bestsellers: BLM essay collection Until We Are Free resonates amidst civil-rights revolution

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