Toronto Public Library appoints new city librarian
The Toronto Public Library has announced its new city librarian: Vickery Bowles takes to the post on Jan. 5. Bowles currently serves as the library’s director of collection management and citywide...
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Ava Lee series to be adapted for television
Ian Hamilton’s best-selling Ava Lee crime series, about a high-end international debt collector, is set to hit the small screen. Orphan Black co-executive producer Karen Walton has signed on to a...
View ArticleMonica Heisey to publish debut book
Red Deer Press publisher Richard Dionne has acquired world rights to Monica Heisey’s book of comedic essays I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better: A Woman’s Guide to Being Alive, a how-to parody based on her...
View ArticleChris Turner sells book on the oil sands to S&S Canada
Simon & Schuster Canada president Kevin Hanson has acquired world rights to environmental journalist and author Chris Turner’s narrative overview of the Alberta oil sands. The Patch addresses the...
View ArticleHilary McMahon sells Ann Walmsley’s Prison Book Club memoir
Penguin Canada publishing director Diane Turbide has acquired North American rights to journalist Ann Walmsley’s The Prison Book Club. The book follows Walmsley, a victim of crime, as she spends 18...
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James Stewart and the legacy of Canada’s most successful textbook author
James Stewart (courtesy stewartcalculus.com) In the wake of James Stewart’s death on Dec. 3 at age 73, the Toronto mathematics professor is remembered as a philanthropist, a skilled violinist and...
View ArticleDeals roundup: Chris Turner to pen oil sands book; Knopf Canada acquires...
Simon & Schuster Canada president Kevin Hanson has acquired world rights to environmental journalist and author Chris Turner’s narrative overview of the Alberta oil sands. The Patch addresses the...
View ArticleFlavia de Luce sells in Japan
On behalf of Denise Bukowski of the Bukowski Agency, Yukiko Kurioka of Japan Uni Agency has sold Japanese rights to Alan Bradley’s sixth book in the best-selling Flavia de Luce mystery series, The Dead...
View ArticlePenguin Canada to publish biography of hockey coach Pat Quinn
Penguin Canada associate publisher Nick Garrison has acquired The Mighty Quinn, a biography of former NHL player and coach Pat Quinn by senior Sportsnet writer Dan Robson. The book is slated to appear...
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Debut author Kristi Charish scores deals with Simon & Schuster and Random...
Kristi CharishWhen an unpublished author’s urban fantasy manuscript about a modern-day voodoo practitioner named Kincaid Strange appeared on Knopf Random Canada publisher Anne Collins’ desk, she did...
View ArticleMerilyn Simonds launches youth mentorship program with Kingston WritersFest
Not long after author Merilyn Simonds took over as artistic director of the Kingston WritersFest in 2009, she received an email… Read More »
View ArticleThe Cooke Agency: Jeff VanderMeer sells illustrated history of sci-fi and...
Sally Harding of The Cooke Agency has sold world rights to Space Oddities & Super Freaks: The Secret History Of… Read More »
View ArticleAlan Bradley to release Flavia de Luce e-short
As volume one of Alan Bradley’s bestselling Flavia de Luce books enters its 20th printing in the U.S., the Canadian author is… Read More »
View ArticleWilfrid Laurier University Press threatened with closure
Wilfrid Laurier University Press has been handed a recommendation to “phase out or minimize” from university administrators, according to a… Read More »
View ArticlePatrick Modiano’s Nobel speech, Girl Online was ghost-written, and more
Patrick Modiano’s Nobel Prize for Literature acceptance speech New record-breaking bestseller Girl Online was ghost-written On individuality and writing: “[T]he truth is, if… Read More »
View ArticlePenguin Random House lays off warehouse workers, 12 new Harry Potter stories,...
Penguin Random House lays off 286 warehouse workers in upstate New York J.K. Rowling is releasing 12 new Harry Potter… Read More »
View ArticleThe Rights Factory: The Waterproof Bible optioned for the screen, Gilmour...
Kelvin Kong of The Rights Factory reports the following deals: Serbian rights to David Gilmour’s The Film Club to Dereta. Liliana… Read More »
View ArticleWhy You Will Fail to Have A Great Career TEDx talk inspires book
In a pre-empt, HarperCollins Canada senior editor Kate Cassaday has acquired Canadian rights to University of Waterloo economics professor Larry Smith’s Why… Read More »
View ArticleWilfrid Laurier University Press pursues alternative partnerships in face of...
Wilfrid Laurier University Press has been given until Dec. 23 to come up with alternative sources of funds after an… Read More »
View ArticleDistribution changes: Publishers Group Canada
Effective Jan. 1, Publishers Group Canada will distribute to all markets for Icon Books, Hippocrene Books, Michelin North America (Canada),… Read More »
View ArticleDeals roundup: Jeff VanderMeer to pen illustrated history of sci-fi, The Tiny...
In a pre-empt, HarperCollins Canada senior editor Kate Cassaday has acquired Canadian rights to University of Waterloo economics professor Larry Smith’s Why You Will Fail… Read More »
View ArticleBookLore celebrates 25 years in business
When friends and business partners Nancy Frater and Ellen Clare opened BookLore in 1989, they were among Orangeville, Ontario’s cultural… Read More »
View ArticleSigal Samuel’s debut novel sells to William Morrow
Samantha Haywood of the Transatlantic Agency has sold world rights (excluding Canada) to Sigal Samuel’s The Mystics of Mile End… Read More »
View ArticlePatrick Crean acquires debut novel
In a pre-empt, Patrick Crean, publisher of the HarperCollins Canada imprint Patrick Crean Editions, has acquired Canadian English-language rights to… Read More »
View ArticleAddressing diversity in the book business, why Anna Todd is a success, and more
Practical ideas from publishing professionals on how to address the book business’s diversity problem Anna Todd’s After succeeds by appealing to “the… Read More »
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