There is some good news for publishers in the B.C. government’s 2018 budget, announced yesterday by finance minister Carol James.
Daily Deals: Rebecca Eckler mixed-family memoir to Dundurn; multiple foreign-rights deals for Ian Reid
Personnel change: Wattpad
Effective immediately, Ashleigh Gardner has been promoted to the position of deputy general manager of publishing for Wattpad Studios.
Daily Deals: Foreign rights for Marissa Stapley’s Things To Do When It’s Raining
Q&A: Lawyer Lisa Jean Helps on CanLit, #MeToo, and defamation laws
Vancouver criminal defence lawyer Lisa Jean Helps had been watching closely as the #MeToo movement hit the Canadian writing community with high-profile cases like Concordia University’s investigation into sexual misconduct in its creative-writing program.
Public Lending Right announces 25-year cap for older titles, introduces audiobooks to the program
Major changes are coming to the Public Lending Right program, which compensates authors, illustrators, editors, and translators for free public use of their books in libraries.
Daily Deals: Prospero Pictures acquires Thomas King’s DreadfulWater mystery series
Daily Deals: Turkish rights for Sharon Bala’s The Boat People; audio rights to Cherie Dimaline’s Marrow Thieves goes to Kobo
Loan Stars: Librarians pick their favourite upcoming March titles
Each month, Canadian library staff vote for their favourite upcoming books, via BookNet Canada’s Loan Stars readers-advisory program and the Canadian Urban Libraries Council.
Alanna Mitchell: “We do not live in a post-truth world, but one that needs science more than ever”
About a year ago, while I was passionately immersed in getting the manuscript of my latest book, The Spinning Magnet: The Force That Created the Modern World and Could Destroy It, to my publisher, I found myself with a brief moment to surface and take the temperature of the times.
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