Anvil Press publisher Brian Kaufman has acquired Black Star, a dark comedy by Maureen Medved, author of The Tracey Fragments.
Daily Deals: Arsenal Pulp acquires new Larissa Lai; Trevor Cole’s Whisky King to be adapted to film
Arsenal Pulp Press publisher Brian Lam has acquired world English rights to The Tiger Flu, a new novel by Calgary author and creative writing professor Larissa Lai for fall 2018 publication.
Daily Deals: Touchwood acquires allergy-friendly cookbook by blogger Amanda Orlando; international deals for David Layton and Jan Redford
TouchWood Editions publisher Taryn Boyd has acquired world rights to blogger Amanda Orlando’s cookbook Everyone’s Welcome.
Daily Deals: Penguin Teen acquires new Ashley Little; D&M to publish new novel by sisters Kristen den Hartog and Tracy Kasaboski
Penguin Teen editor Samantha Swenson has acquired world rights to a new YA novel by award-winning author Ashley Little.
Daily Deals: M&S acquires debut by G&M’s Dakshana Bascaramurty; film rights sold to Anne Fleming’s The Goat
McClelland & Stewart publisher Jared Bland has acquired world English-language rights to a non-fiction work by National Newspaper Award–winning Globe and Mail reporter Dakshana Bascaramurty.
Daily Deals: BookThug to publish new poetry by Shannon Webb-Campbell; new Carol Bruneau novel to Nimbus
BookThug has acquired a new poetry collection about Canada’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women by Shannon Webb-Campbell.
Daily Deals: Freehand Books to publish novel by former UBC creative writing chair Keith Maillard
Freehand Books is set to publish former UBC creative writing chair Keith Maillard’s new novel, Figure 1 partners with GlucksteinDesign for its founder’s first title, and Roz Nay’s psychological thriller sells in Poland.
Kids Can Press to adapt Carmilla series into a YA novel
Toronto children’s publisher Kids Can Press has announced that it will be adapting award-winning webseries Carmilla into a YA novel under the KCP Loft imprint in spring 2019.
Daily Deals: Foreign deals for Linda Bailey, MJ Summers, and Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Today’s book deals.
Daily Deals: Foreign deals for Yann Martel, Jaspreet Singh, and Don Thompson
Yann Martel’s The High Mountains of Portugal has sold in Vietnamese, Jaspreet Singh’s Chef has sold in Arabic, and Don Thompson’s The Supermodel and the Brillo Box has sold in Ukrainian.
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