Simon & Schuster Canada senior editor Laurie Grassi has acquired Canadian rights to bestselling author Catherine McKenzie’s The Good Liar,
Distribution change: Publishers Group West
Effective June 1, Publishers Group West is the new North American distributor for Canongate Books.
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.
Indigenous leaders launch Canada Reads: The Unsettling Canada Edition in response to the 150th
A group of Indigenous grassroots leaders – from the Idle No More and Defenders of the Land initiatives – are responding to Canada’s sesquicentennial with a public education and action campaign meant to highlight decolonial books and the injustices the country’s First Nations have faced.
House of Anansi toasts 50 years of publishing with a custom beer
To celebrate the launch of Anansi’s 50th-anniversary season in April, Henderson Brewing created a custom cucumber blonde.
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.
Distribution announcement: ChiZine Publications
Fitzhenry & Whiteside will serve as distributor for ChiZine Publications.
Telling Tales incorporates, focuses on year-long literacy initiative
Spring is a time of renewal for Telling Tales, the organization behind the annual children’s literature festival of the same name.
Crowdfunded Emerging Indigenous Voices Prize surpasses $90,000, receives endowment
The Emerging Indigenous Voices campaign launched on crowdfunding platform Indiegogo last week by Toronto lawyer Robin Parker has raised more than $90,000, from more than 1,250 donors, toward a new Indigenous literary prize.
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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