A personal essay by author Suzette Mayr.
Scott Steedman and Dimiter Savoff launch internationally minded Locarno Press
Publishing consultant and professor Scott Steedman and Simply Read Books CEO Dimiter Savoff are launching a publishing house, Locarno Press, in Vancouver this fall.
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.
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Humber College’s children’s literature workshop returns to P.E.I. for a second year
Humber College’s intensive children’s literature workshop, the Insider’s Guide to Writing and Publishing for Young Readers, is returning to Charlottetown July 13–15 for a second year.
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.
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