Daily Deals: ECW picks up Melissa Leong’s feel-good personal finance guide
Daily Deals: Dundurn acquires Joanne Vannicola memoir
Daily Deals: HarperCollins Canada acquires Dan Robson’s Johnny Bower biography
Daily Deals: PRHC signs Cherie Dimaline to four-book deal
Daily Deals: Owlkids acquires non-fiction picture book by Nadia L. Hohn
Willow Dawson and Shelley Tanaka adapt 150-year-old fairy tales of Franz Xaver von Schönwerth
When, in 2009, Toronto author-illustrator Willow Dawson read that 500 lost fairy tales had been discovered in a German archive, she felt an immediate sense of intrigue and connection.
Daily Deals: Penguin acquires Robyn Doolittle book on sexual assault
Daily Deals: foreign rights for Marcello Di Cintio; six-figure deal for Dan Bar-el
Deals: The magic realism and rich world of Eden Robinson’s Trickster trilogy make it the perfect fit for a TV series adaptation
Michelle Latimer, founder of Streel Films, didn’t expect to find her next project when she picked up Eden Robinson’s novel Son of a Trickster. “I wasn’t actively looking for properties, just a good book to read,” says the filmmaker and actor, who in March teamed up with Jennifer Kawaja, co-founding producer of Sienna Films (Cardinal, Combat Hospital), to acquire TV rights to Son of a Trickster and its sequels.
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