Deals
World rights to Marty Chan's DETENTION
Award-winning author and playwright, best known for his Marty Chan Mystery Series, Marty Chan’s DETENTION, a humorous middle grade mystery novel featuring an intrepid school reporter, Izzy, as she launches a podcast series investigating the possible wrongful conviction and detention sentence of a classmate; pitched as a technologically updated Harriet the Spy meets the mockumentary ‘American Vandal…’
Canada, English rights to Eternity Martis's WHITE LIES
Author of the award-winning bestselling memoir and 2021 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Non-Fiction THEY SAID THIS WOULD BE FUN, Eternity Martis’s debut novel WHITE LIES, a darkly humourous satire-drama inspired by a culture of white women behaving badly (and the patriarchal influences that lets them) and the dark and messy side of female friendships…
French rights to Dawn Dumont's THE PRAIRIE CHICKEN DANCE TOUR
Éditions Dépaysage has acquired French rights in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Switzerland to Dawn Dumont’s THE PRAIRIE CHICKEN DANCE TOUR.
World Spanish rights to Neil Smith's JONES
Editorial Edhasa has acquired world Spanish rights to Neil Smith’s JONES….
World Rights to jaye simpson’s a body more tolerable
Indigiqueer Two-Spirit Oji-Cree poet, performer, writer and winner of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Poetry in English, jaye simpson’s “a body more tolerable,” a powerful and vulnerable poetry collection full of mythos, fairy tales, allusion and magic, focusing on redefining acts of creation, destruction, deconstruction and recreation, in ways that reject perception…
World Rights to Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.'s THE EL
Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (enrolled member Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians)'s THE EL, a semi-autobiographical novel that takes place on a single day in 1979 Chicago as a group of teenage Royals trek across the city to attend a gathering of fellow gang members in a story that's pitched as half TOMMY ORANGE, half THE WARRIORS, entirely a love letter to a group of friends trying to make their way in a city (and a country) that doesn't want them…
French in North America rights to Michael Crummey’s THE ADVERSARY
Leméac Éditeur has acquired French in North America rights to Michael Crummey’s THE ADVERSARY in an exclusive submission…
French in North America rights to Cherie Dimaline’s FUNERAL SONGS FOR DYING GIRLS
Les Éditions du Boréal has acquired French in North America rights to Cherie Dimaline’s FUNERAL SONGS FOR DYING GIRLS in an exclusive submission…
US English rights to Conor Kerr's PRAIRIE EDGE
US English rights to Conor Kerr's PRAIRIE EDGE, in which Métis kin, one trapped by circumstance in a semi-criminal rut and the other disillusioned with performative activist culture, hatch on a dangerous yet bold political mission—freeing a herd of bison onto the sprawling concrete of downtown Edmonton—and then must deal with the fateful and fatal consequences that follow…
North American rights to Timothy Taylor's THE RISE AND FALL OF MAGIC WOLF
Scotiabank Giller and Writers' Trust Prize finalist Timothy Taylor's THE RISE AND FALL OF MAGIC WOLF, about a Canadian chef who meets a colleague from Quebec while training in Paris who later comes to work for the chef at his first restaurant in Vancouver; over the next few years, his restaurant empire booms before beginning to crumble under the weight of sexual assault allegations and accusations the chef stole his most profitable recipes…
Canadian Rights to Lisa Moore and Jack Whalen's co-authored memoir
Award-winning author of Caught Lisa Moore and Jack Whalen’s co-authored memoir about the latter’s four-year incarceration from the age of 13 at the Whitbourne School for Boys in St. John’s in the 1970s, where he was subjected to long bouts of solitary confinement and brutal beatings, and how he managed to find love on the other side, turn his life around and seek justice for those lost years with the help of his daughter, whose father’s experiences inspired her career in law…
World Rights to Amber Boyd's BLOOD, BANNOCK, AND BEADS
Award-winning Métis writer, Amber Boyd’s memoir, BLOOD, BANNOCK, AND BEADS, recounts a 24-year vibrant journey of reclaiming her identity after discovering that her grandfather hid his; her path back to the Métis community includes bear encounters, traditional medicines, bead works, a birch bark canoe, and lessons with her two children…