New Zealand–based Cloud South Films has acquired film rights to Canadian environmental activist and former Greenpeace vice-president Varda Burstyn’s 2005 eco-thriller Water Inc.
Woodbridge Farm Writers’ Retreat launches book imprint
The Woodbridge Farm Writers’ Retreat is expanding its activities to include book publishing.
Daily Deals: Foreign deals for Claire Cameron
Claire Cameron’s 2017 novel The Last Neanderthal has sold in the Czech Republic, while the Toronto author’s 2014 novel The Bear has sold in Italy.
Robert Gray’s Entropic to be adapted to film
Author and University of New Brunswick English professor Robert Gray is adapting his sophomore short-story collection Entropic (NeWest Press) to film.
Daily Deals: ECW Press to publish Angie Abdou’s Home Ice; Penguin acquires Samra Habib memoir
Penguin Canada has acquired Samra Habib’s memoir about being a queer Muslim.
Daily Deals: Figure 1 acquires Corbin Tomaszeski’s first cookbook
Figure 1 Publishing has acquired the first cookbook by Toronto chef and Food Network host Corbin Tomaszeski.
Daily Deals: S&S acquires two books by Catherine McKenzie; Dundurn to publish non-fiction by Olympian Jeremiah Brown
Simon & Schuster Canada senior editor Laurie Grassi has acquired Canadian rights to bestselling author Catherine McKenzie’s The Good Liar,
Daily Deals: Viking Canada and Grand Central Publishing acquire new Joanne Proulx
Penguin Canada has acquired We All Love the Beautiful Girls, the second novel by Joanne Proulx, for the Viking Canada imprint. Grand Central Publishing will release the title in the U.S. Tiffany Stone’s children’s book Tree Song will be published by Annick Press.
Firefly Books to serve as the National Film Board’s first official book publisher
Firefly Books has announced a new partnership with the National Film Board.
Daily Deals: French rights acquired to Grace O’Connell’s forthcoming novel | Michael Harris sells in French and Spanish
PAIDOS has acquired the world Spanish rights to Governor General’s Literary Award winner Michael Harris’s Solitude: A Singular Life in a Crowded World.
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