Four-Book Deal for Cherie Dimaline to Penguin Random House Canada

Bestselling and award-winning author of THE MARROW THIEVES Cherie Dimaline’s THE LITHOPEDION OF WINTERSON CEMETERY, following a Métis girl as she tries to save her father’s job at a failing crematorium, relying on the help of her best friend, a budding ghost hunter; her cousin, a part-time phone psychic; and Mrs. Dingleberry, a morbidly obese pug-chihuahua mix to bring the ‘Ghost of Winterson Cemetery’ to life in order to keep the business from dying, for publication in spring 2020, and an untitled YA novel, release date to be determined, to Tara Walker and Lynne Missen at Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers, and EMPIRE OF WILD, a play on Red Riding Hood and the traditional Métis story of the Rougarou, in which a broken-hearted woman believes her missing fiancé has returned as Reverend Wolff, a Walmart parking lot revivalist attempting to lure people off their traditional lands and into the arms of Jesus, right where greedy and corrupt commercial resource companies want them, for publication in fall 2019, and an untitled adult novel, for publication in fall 2021, to Anne Collins at Random House Canada, in a four-book deal, by Dean Cooke and Rachel Letofsky at CookeMcDermid.