by Ryan Porter

Personnel Change: Wattpad announces Deanna McFadden in newly created role of publishing director

Toronto-based Wattpad has announced Deanna McFadden in the newly created role of publishing director for the company’s original content arm, Wattpad Studios. McFadden was associate publisher at Joe Books, which specializes in comic, graphic novel, ... Read More »

September 13, 2018

Word Vancouver to champion diversity, says interim director Bonnie Nish

By Ryan Porter

It almost didn’t happen, but Word Vancouver will proceed for a 24th year with interim director Bonnie Nish saying the 2018 literary festival will celebrate the diversity of the city's writing community. Organized by the Vancouver ... Read More »

September 13, 2018

The Writers’ Trust of Canada announces Journey Prize finalists

By Ryan Porter

The Writers’ Trust of Canada has announced the finalists for the $10,000 McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. The award celebrates the best short story by a new Canadian writer published during the previous year. This ... Read More »

September 12, 2018

Daily Deals: A debut rom-com for HarperCollins; foreign rights sell for forthcoming Hungover

By Ryan Porter

HarperCollins Canada’s editorial director Jennifer Lambert has acquired world rights to Toronto author Farah Heron’s debut novel The Chai Factor. The romantic comedy features a Muslim grad student forced to share an apartment with a ... Read More »

September 7, 2018

Q&A: Rakuten Kobo makes play for the U.S. with Walmart partnership

By Ryan Porter

On Aug. 22, the Toronto-based, Japanese-owned e-retailer Rakuten Kobo announced a significant move into the U.S. market: Walmart eBooks, a partnership with the discount department-store chain to sell ebooks and audiobooks. The deal will see ... Read More »

September 7, 2018

Daily Deals: foreign rights to Iain Reid’s Foe sold in six territories

By Ryan Porter

Foreign rights to Iain Reid’s Foe have sold in six territories: Simon & Schuster managing director Suzanne Baboneau has acquired U.K. Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) for its Scribner imprint in a deal arranged by Stephanie ... Read More »

September 6, 2018

Joel Thomas Hynes, Sheilah Lukins win Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards

By Ryan Porter

Joel Thomas Hynes’s novel We’ll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night and Sheilah Lukins’s children’s novel Full Speed Ahead: Errol’s Bell Island Adventure were named winners of the 22nd Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards ... Read More »

September 5, 2018

After seven years and 50,000 photographs, Caitlin Cronenberg and Jessica Ennis unveil art book The Endings

By Ryan Porter

For the past seven years, photographer Caitlin Cronenberg and set designer Jessica Ennis have recruited fascinating female actors for secret photo shoots that tell stories of love’s endings. Now San Francisco–based Chronicle Books has collected ... Read More »

September 4, 2018

Canadian novelist Kim Thúy among four writers shortlisted for Nobel alternative

By Ryan Porter

Montreal-based novelist Kim Thúy has been shortlisted for the New Prize in Literature, the prize created to replace the cancelled 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature. Thúy shares the shortlist with Maryse Conde, Neil Gaiman, and ... Read More »

August 30, 2018

Six lessons Anne T. Donahue learned about narrating audiobooks

By Ryan Porter

“I talk so much all the time,” says author Anne T. Donahue, who has just wrapped her first audiobook. To record the 44,000-word text of her autobiographical essay collection, Nobody Cares (ECW Press), which will ... Read More »

August 30, 2018

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Personnel Change: Wattpad announces Deanna McFadden in newly created role of publishing director

Word Vancouver to champion diversity, says interim director Bonnie Nish

The Writers’ Trust of Canada announces Journey Prize finalists

Daily Deals: A debut rom-com for HarperCollins; foreign rights sell for forthcoming Hungover

Q&A: Rakuten Kobo makes play for the U.S. with Walmart partnership

Daily Deals: foreign rights to Iain Reid’s Foe sold in six territories

Joel Thomas Hynes, Sheilah Lukins win Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards

After seven years and 50,000 photographs, Caitlin Cronenberg and Jessica Ennis unveil art book The Endings

Canadian novelist Kim Thúy among four writers shortlisted for Nobel alternative

Six lessons Anne T. Donahue learned about narrating audiobooks

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