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Dear Friends,
Welcome to our first newsletter of 2017!
As you can see, we have been very busy over the last few months and have seen wide recognition for many of our clients and their books. We hope to find the same great fortune again this year, with many potential blockbusters awaiting release.
As many of you already know, we will not be attending the London Book Fair in March. But we will be producing a new spring catalogue which should land in your inbox shortly.
As always, contact information is listed with each of the titles featured below. Please feel free to be in touch with the corresponding agent if you have questions regarding specific titles.
Wishing you all a good and prosperous season,
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New Deal Announcements
CANADIAN AND NORTH AMERICAN DEALS
Fiction:
Canada English rights to Giller Prize-longlisted author Elisabeth de Mariaffi's haunting new novel I REMEMBER YOU, for readers of Sarah Waters, a story whose post-war setting in seemingly idyllic 1950s upstate New York strangely parallels a young German woman's relationship with her controlling husband, an American psychiatrist, until the couple's small son goes missing, leaving the mother torn between the possibility that her husband is involved in the boy's disappearance and the dark suggestion that something otherworldly has taken him, to Iris Tupholme of HarperCollins Canada by Samantha Haywood. Contact: [email protected]
Canada English rights to Harriet Alida Lye's unnerving novel, THE HONEY FARM, for fans of Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan and readers of Kazuo Ishiguro's haunting novel Never Let Me Go, THE HONEY FARM is a psychological thriller about art, bees and love - when beekeeper Cynthia offers young artists free room and board in exchange for help on the farm, strange things start happening, resembling the plagues from the Book of Exodus, triggering a Catholic would-be-poet into an increasingly terrorized state where she can no longer tell if Cynthia is her protector or her destroyer - to Whitney Moran at Vagrant Press for Spring 2018 by Stephanie Sinclair. Contact: [email protected]
World rights ex. France/Quebec to Martha Baillie's exquisite new novel, IF CLARA - looking at family, friendship, memory, and the anxiety of contemporary life as if through a kaleidoscope, the colourful shards keep rearranging themselves. Flawlessly woven together are characters that fall and break their bones, dive into erotic love, drop from the sky, and plummet into mental illness. Their lives, they quickly discover, are inextricably intertwined - to Alana Wilcox at Coach House Books for Fall 2017 by Samantha Haywood. Contact: [email protected]
World English rights ex. Canada to bestselling author Marissa Stapley's THINGS TO DO WHEN IT'S RAINING - for readers of The Nest and The Notebook comes a poignant generational story about Mae Summers and Gabe Broadbent, childhood best friends and sweethearts who are reunited as adults at the idyllic Summers' Inn and dealing with aging parents, heartbreak and secrets that will either bring them together or forever leave them as two islands - to Brittany Lavery at Graydon House by Samantha Haywood of the Transatlantic Agency, previously to Nita Pronovost at Simon & Schuster Canada (Spring 2018) by Samantha Haywood. Contact: [email protected]
Canada English rights, for readers of Ann Patchett, Governor General's Award finalist and twice longlisted Scotiabank Giller Prize author Claire Holden Rothman's LEAR'S SHADOW tells the mesmerizing story of Beatrice Rose who, after losing her career and the love of her life, has lost her way and finds herself stuck caring for her aging father only to discover the fascinating world of an urban Shakespeare troupe which unveils new meanings, a new love, and a new life - to Shima Aoki and Nicole Winstanley at Penguin Canada for Fall 2018 by Samantha Haywood. Contact: [email protected]
World rights to William Kowalski's JUMPED IN, a high interest/low vocabulary series for literacy-challenged adults, to Ruth Linka at Orca Book Publishers for its Raven Books' Rapid Reads program. This is Kowalski's sixth title for this series. Contact: [email protected]
Non-Fiction:
Canada English rights to FRONTIER CITY - Author Shawn Micallef walks and talks through Toronto, finding the beauty that's often overlooked and a force for change that's been building for decades as people move there from every corner of the globe. FRONTIER CITY is a revelatory view of the Toronto of today and an inspiring vision of the Toronto of the near future - to Tim Rostron at Signal/McClelland & Stewart, Penguin Random House Canada by Samantha Haywood contact: [email protected]
North American rights to Suzanne Methot's LEGACY, looking at the damage colonialism has wrought within Indigenous communities, what this legacy means for Canada's future, and examining what we need to do to create systemic change, to Susan Renouf at ECW Press for Spring 2018 by Stephanie Sinclair. Contact: [email protected]
Former
Toronto Star columnist, starting this month as a correspondent for
New York Times,
Catherine Porter's
A GIRL NAMED LOVELY, recounting Catherine's journeys in post-earthquake Haiti as she bonds with the family of a miraculous child survivor and witnesses the realities of international aid, to Brendan May at Simon & Schuster Canada, by Samantha Haywood. Contact:
[email protected]
World rights to Kate Inglis' MOTHER NATURE'S SON, a book of reflection for parents healing after the death of a child, to Beth Frankl at Shambhala Publications by Amy Tompkins. Contact: [email protected]
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Foreign Rights Sales:
World French rights to
Gary Barwin's bestselling
YIDDISH FOR PIRATES - This debut novel was shortlisted for the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award for Literature and was chosen a Top Book of 2016 by both
The National Post and
The Globe and Mail - to Sandra Gonthier at Editions du Boreal. Contact:
[email protected]
World English audio rights to
Gary Barwin's bestselling
YIDDISH FOR PIRATES to Audible. Contact:
[email protected]
Italian rights to
Marni Jackson's linked stories
DON'T I KNOW YOU?, exploring one woman's life from 16 to 60, and what happens when certain celebrities - Neil Young, John Updike, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Gwyneth Paltrow, Adam Driver - start turning up in her private life, at the spa, in the middle of a break-up, even on the operating table, to Bompiani by Erica Berla at Berla & Griffini on behalf of Samantha Haywood. Contact:
[email protected]
Chinese rights to
Iain Reid's
I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS, to United Sky New Media Co. by Jackie Huang of Andrew Nurnberg Associates on behalf of Samantha Haywood. Rights previously to Scout Press, Simon & Schuster US, Simon & Schuster Canada, Text for UK/ANZ rights, for simultaneous publication June 2016; Prometheus, The Netherlands; Rocco Brazil; Presses de la Cite, France; HaKursa, Israel; Lindhardt og Ringhof, Denmark; Droemer, Germany; Teas, Turkey; Prosznski, Poland; Droemer Knaur, Germany, Arumdri Media Publishing Co, Korea and WeLearn, Thailand. Contact:
[email protected]
Chinese and Danish rights to
Plum Johnson's
THEY LEFT US EVERYTHING, chronicling the author's undertaking to sort and empty her beloved childhood home after the death of her elderly parents, a task that triggers difficult memories and unearths new facts, ultimately allowing her to reconcile her relationship with her mother and come to a richer understanding of her family history, and herself, to Brandon Culture by Zoe Hsu of Andrew Nurnberg Associates International Ltd. in China and to Gads Forlag in Denmark by Jeanine Langenberg of the Sebes Agency on behalf of Samantha Haywood. Previous rights sold to Putnam, U.S. and Penguin Canada. Contact:
[email protected]
Polish rights to Journey Prize finalist
Rebecca Rosenblum's debut
SO MUCH LOVE, pitched as a cross between
Olive Kitteridge and
Room, about the unexpected reverberations the abduction of a young woman has on a small community, to PRÓSZYŃSKI by Agata Zabowska at Book/lab on behalf of Samantha Haywood. Contact:
[email protected]
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Film Deals:
J. Todd Harris (
The Kids Are All Right,
Bottle Shock,
American Psycho: The Musical) and Marc Marcum (
I, Robot,
Alien Vs. Predator) of Los Angeles-based Branded Pictures Entertainment have acquired film rights to author
Emily Schultz's 2012 novel,
THE BLONDES, about a pregnant graduate student who flees a new rabies-like virus that only affects blonde women. The deal was arranged by Shaun Bradley in collaboration with Brendan Deneen at Macmillan Entertainment, and producer Andrew Gershon. Schultz will write the pilot along with her partner, the music video director Brian J. Davis. Contact:
[email protected]
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Drawn & Quarterly Deals
U.K. & Commonwealth ex. Canada rights sold to
Tom Gauld's highly anticipated new book
BAKING WITH KAFKA, a collection of 100 new comics to Francis Bickmore at Canongate U.K.
Spanish rights to
Peter Bagge's
FIRE!! to La Cupula, French rights to Nada Editions
Polish rights to
Dan Clowes'
WILSON to Kultura Gniewu by Agata Zabowska of Book/lab
Spanish rights to
Lynda Barry's
100 DEMONS to Reservoir Books
Korean rights to
Adrian Tomine's
NEW YORK DRAWINGS to Art Books Publishing Group by Sona Seo of the Amo Agency
German rights to
Jillian Tamaki's
BOUNDLESS to Reprodukt
German rights to
Sarah Glidden's
HOW TO UNDERSTAND ISRAEL IN 60 DAYS OR LESS to Reprodukt
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Awards and Citations
Congratulations to Diane Schoemperlen, whose memoir THIS IS NOT MY LIFE (HarperCollins Canada) has been shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize.
From the jury, "Diane Schoemperlen's skillful, conversational writing takes the reader on a harrowing journey through hope and happiness to heartbreak."
Congratulations to Nina Berkhout whose THE GALLERY OF LOST SPECIES (House of Anansi Press) was a 2016 Ottawa Book Awards finalist in the English Fiction category.
Congratulations to Sandra Martin whose A GOOD DEATH: Making the Most of Our Final Choices (HarperCollins Canada) has been shortlisted for the 2017 BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, one of Canada's largest book prizes.
Congratulations to Elisabeth de Mariaffi, whose debut literary thriller THE DEVIL YOU KNOW (HarperCollins Canada; Simon & Schuster U.S.), Sigal Samuel whose debut novel THE MYSTICS OF MILE END (Freehand Books; William Morrow & Company) and Leslie Vryenhoek whose debut novel LEDGER OF THE OPEN HAND (Breakwater Books), have all been longlisted for the 2017 International DUBLIN Literary Award.
Congratulations to Pailin Chongchitnant, whose cookbook HOT THAI KITCHEN won the national Gourmand Award in the category of Best Asian Cuisine Book.
Congratulations to the many Transatlantic clients whose books made the top roundups of 2016:
The Globe and Mail Top 100:
Gary Barwin's YIDDISH FOR PIRATES (Random House of Canada)
Marni Jackson's DON'T I KNOW YOU? (Flatiron Books)
Iain Reid's I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS (Simon & Schuster Canada)
Zoe Whittall's THE BEST KIND OF PEOPLE (House of Anansi Press)
Diane Schoemperlen's THIS IS NOT MY LIFE (HarperCollins Canada)
Sandra Martin's A GOOD DEATH (HarperCollins Canada)
The National Post Top 99:
Gary Barwin's YIDDISH FOR PIRATES Sonja Larsen's RED STAR TATTOO: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary
49th Shelf Books of the Year:
Alice Zorn's FIVE ROSES
CBC Books' 12 Best Debut Novels of 2016:
Gary Barwin's YIDDISH FOR PIRATES
CBC Books' Best of 2016:
Gary Barwin's YIDDISH FOR PIRATES
CBC Holiday Gift Guide:
Russell Wangersky's THE PATH OF MOST RESISTANCE Sonja Larsen's RED STAR TATTOO: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary Anne and Nicholas Giardini's STARTLE AND ILLUMINATE: Carol Shields on Writing
The Writers' Trust of Canada 2016 Best Books of the Year:
Alice Zorn's FIVE ROSES
Now Toronto's Best Books of 2016:
Sonja Larsen's RED STAR TATTOO: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary
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Rave Reviews
Praise for Marni Jackson's DON'T I KNOW YOU? (World Rights Available Ex: North America, Flatiron Books, October 2016). Contact [email protected]:
"
Don't I Know You? reframes our fascination with famous strangers, which can be as flippant as paging through Us Weekly in the checkout line or as passionate as a desperate teenage crush. In Jackson's hands, that fascination is a kind of creativity-even a kind of art."
-Slate
"Jackson's writing is so smooth that it all feels real; anything seems possible. Our relationship with celebrities is a complicated business. We don't really know them, but we feel like we do because of the way we interact with their art and the way their art interacts with big moments in our lives. Jackson helps to make sense of this by bringing celebrities into the fold of daily life. The result is magic."
-The Globe and Mail
"Whimsical and imaginative, Jackson's book is a commentary on the modern-day, ultra-famous artist and his or her role in our everyday lives."
-CBC Books
"Blending a fictional life story with real-life celebrity cameos, the story has a lot to say about how we see famous people, what we expect of them, and also what we expect of and how we see ourselves."
-Quill and Quire
"Such a premise could easily fall flat. But with Jackson at the helm it is nothing short of brilliant."
-Toronto Star
"[A} delightful and audacious first work of fiction....The lure is obvious. Rose is an endearing character and fame is an enduring subject. And far from sucking up to or glorifying her starry subjects, Jackson renders them human, needy and emotionally unpredictable in ways that not only have to do with their fame, but also with what their work evokes in our psyches."
-Toronto Star
"Jackson steals scenes from her book's famous guests."
-Macleans
"Blending a fictional life story with real-life celebrity cameos, the story has a lot to say about how we see famous people, what we expect of them, and also what we expect of and how we see ourselves."
-Civilan Reader
"...the author's uncommon device - the mixture of fiction and non-fiction revolving around real life celebrity - works. Jackson's characters, real and purely fictional, ring true."
-The National Post
Praise for Shauna Singh Baldwin's essay collection RELUCTANT REBELLIONS: New and Selected Non-Fiction, featuring a collection of yet unpublished pieces (World Rights to University of the Fraser Valley Press). Contact [email protected]:
"This book is a gem. Shauna gives us a compilation of essays and speeches that offer readers a primer on how to live with compassion and empathy in an ever increasing multicultural world, and it offers writers invaluable craft-focused lessons for documenting the terrible stories and the suffering that characterizes the human condition in the absence of such kindness and consideration."
-Sikh Chic
Praise for Stacey May Fowles' BASEBALL LIFE ADVICE (World Rights Available Ex: North America, McClelland & Stewart). Contact [email protected]:
"[Stacey May Fowles] left me spellbound. These essays take the reader on a rich journey. She writes with such passion, and challenges us to look beyond the stat sheet in order to drink deeply from a game that is so much more than the players who play it."
-R.A. Dickey, from his Foreword
"This is beautiful. Fowles has used her own experiences at the ballpark to reveal what each and every fan has felt but didn't know why. She captures what we all love about the game."
-Buck Martinez, author of Change Up and the play-by-play announcer for the Toronto Blue Jays
"Fowles's writing about her love of the game and the role of baseball in her life is honest, funny, touching, detailed, and charming. You do not need to be a sports fan or a baseball fan to enjoy this book; it is for anyone who appreciates beautiful writing, who has struggled to find their place in this world, or who has loved anything more than they can explain."
-Jessica Luther, author of Unsportsmanlike Conduct
"Stacey May Fowles has brought her unique, heartfelt, and smart voice to the public conversation about baseball. In doing so, she has made her mark on the sport. [[Her inspiration helps others feel more welcome and safe in joining a dialogue about baseball that has been exclusive and one-dimensional for far too long. I have learned much from her.]]"
-John Lott, The Athletic
Praise for Grant Lawrence's DIRTY WINDSHIELDS (World Rights Available Ex: North America, Douglas & Mcintyre, Spring 2017). Contact [email protected]:
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Dirty Windshields should come with a disclaimer: 'WARNING: May induce feelings of wanderlust and the itching desire to throw a guitar case into the back of a van and hit the road, if not to Japan or Australia, at least to Moose Jaw or Thunder Bay.' An endearing, fun, and wistful look at music, youth, dreams and travel."
-Will Ferguson, author, 419, How To Be A Canadian, Road Trip to Rwanda
"This true tale of innocents abroad is a testament to the power of unshakable optimism in the face of utter cluelessness and should serve as a flashing red light warning to anyone who imagines that touring the world in a band is non-stop fun. But somehow the laughs keep coming. Told with equal measures pride and shame, this uproarious chronicle of vans, violence, alcohol, cops, fires, floods, blizzards, wrong turns, crooked clubowners, actual snakes, robbery, bodily fluids and calamities of all sorts is the perfect companion to the band's mega-fun music."
-Ira Robbins, NYC rock writer (Rolling Stone, SPIN, Village Voice, Creem, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Mojo, Trouser Press)
"Grant Lawrence taught me everything I know about touring! Buckle up for an epic tale told by one of rock 'n' roll's greatest storytellers.
Dirty Windshields is a shotgun seat on a beer-and-body-fluid-soaked wild ride you'll never forget!"
-Lisa Marr, cub
"Wow! The details are different but the story is very similar to my own. Of course, I was on the east coast of Canada, and my band was actually pretty good, but the themes are universal."
-Chris Murphy, Sloan
Praise for Lori McNulty's LIFE ON MARS (World Rights Available Ex: English Canada, Goose Lane Editions, Spring 2017). Contact [email protected]:
"Fierce and ferocious."
-Alexander MacLeod
"The stories in Lori McNulty's wild debut collection devour life's numbing tragedies and exhilarating passions with ravenous appetite."
"It is confirmed!
There is Life on Mars
and it is fierce and ferocious and full of love and loneliness. Lori McNulty's stories are wise and funny and they pound with an energy that is simultaneously physical and philosophical. Get ready to go, boldly, where Canadian fiction has never been before."
-Alexander MacLeod, author of Light Lifting
"These narratives are fresh and startling. They confirm Lori McNulty as a writer who can roam the universe, crossing boundaries of gender, species, and even mortality, while never straying from her native terrain - that of the human heart."
-K.D. Miller, author of All Saints
"In
Life on Mars we find stoner beauty and deft fables brimming with animal grief and invective. Our characters reach slippery visions about siblings and mothers and those sad swinging doors of home that might kick you out or welcome you inside."
-Mark Anthony Jarman, author of Knife Party at the Hotel Europa
"Each of these stories moves like a lit fuse racing towards a keg of dynamite.
Life on Mars boldly excavates the darkness within to emerge with its characters' bloodied but still pulsing hearts held high. Lori McNulty leads her teenage stoners and cutters, her conflicted widows, her mentally ill, her sentient squids and many-armed gods to the edge of the cliff and dares them to live. This is ferocious fiction from a new master witness of life on Earth."
-Zsuzsi Gartner, author of Better Living through Plastic Explosives
"Donovan's account of the investigation is likely to spark renewed interest in how this case and its trial were covered - and how sexual assault cases should be covered in the future."
-National Post
"Shot it out of the sky" + "a high point in the history of modern Canadian journalism."
-The Walrus
"Kevin Donovan's new book on the Jian Ghomeshi investigation and trial shows us how far we haven't come on conversations around sexual assault."
-Macleans
Praise for Paul Carlucci's A PLEA FOR CONSTANT MOTION (World Rights to House of Anansi, January 2017). Contact [email protected]:
"Paul Carlucci's
A Plea for Constant Motion
is a visceral, vibrant, take -no-prisoners collection. Its characters keep talking in your head even after you put the stories down, coming back when you least expect it. Bright like nightmares, yet gauzy like half-remembered dreams - a unique touch."
-Russell Wangersky, author of The Path of Most Resistance
"Paul Carlucci's collection thrums with violence. The damaged, deranged, and dangerous are flayed open on the page by vivid, razor-sharp prose. These stories, steeped in darkness, disturb and captivate in equal measure."
-Laura Trunkey, author of Double Dutch
"Paul Carlucci has a gift for the dark and the heartbreaking. In this myriad collection of stories, we meet people who have been confronted with all manner of quiet disasters. It's a testament to the careful brilliance of Carlucci's prose that this disaster exists hand-in-hand with redemption; these are tales of unlikely triumph, wistfully poignant and played out with a master hand."
-Amanda Leduc, author of Miracles of Ordinary Men
"Whether Paul Carlucci's characters are dealing with class conflict, prejudice, or incomprehensible cruelty, the precision and dark, vivid humour of his stories deliver new angles on literary and societal conventions, demonstrating that the sidelines are often where the real emotional action is."
-Naben Ruthnum, Journey Prize Winner
Praise for Clea Young's TEARDOWN (World Rights Available Ex: Canada English, Freehand Books, Spring 2017). Contact [email protected]:
"Canada can claim many masters of the short story - Carol Shields, Margaret Laurence, Lisa Moore, Alice Munro, Guy Vanderhaeghe - and with her latest collection, Canadian writer Clea Young proves she has the chops to add her name to this illustrious list."
-Winnipeg Free Press
"Young's stories display a surface insouciance that is somewhat deceptive: The individual pieces are so entertaining, their execution so apparently effortless, that it is only in retrospect that they seem to accrue a deeper, more profound meaning."
-The Globe and Mail
Praise for Kerry Clare's MITZI BYTES (World Rights Available Ex: Canada, HarperCollins, Spring 2017). Contact [email protected]:
"In Kerry Clare's refreshingly honest
Mitzi Bytes, we meet Sarah Lundy - a woman whose secret identity is about to smash into her reality - as she struggles to balance her family, relationships and true self. Witty and clever, Clare's authentic voice shines through the pages and right into Sarah, making it impossible not to cheer her on as she finds her way."
-Karma Brown, internationally bestselling author of Come Away with Me and The Choices We Make
"I could not put this book down. Literary, intelligent and witheringly funny,
Mitzi Bytes is the love child of a suspense driven thriller and a feminist primer on maternal alienation. I suggest you read this book immediately."
-Dr May Friedman
"Funny, full-hearted - and sometimes heartbreaking - Kerry Clare's
Mitzi Bytes is sharp take on a digital age dilemma: how do you find your voice without losing track of who you are?"
-Rachel Giese, editor-at-large Chatelaine
Praise for Marissa Stapley's THINGS TO DO WHEN IT'S RAINING (World Rights Available Ex: Canada, Simon & Schuster; U.S. & U.K., Graydon House). Contact [email protected]:
"Marissa Stapley's Things To Do When It's Raining packs a serious punch. It's a tightly-woven story that beautifully illustrates how tragedy and human weakness can cause heartbreaking ripples for years and generations to come." -K.A. Tucker, USA Today Bestselling Author
"Marissa Stapley's Things To Do When It's Raining is evocative, wise and infused with heart. A deeply moving story about family, love and loss, it shows how secrets can either haunt us or set us free, depending on who we trust them with. One of my favorite books this year!" -Karma Brown, bestselling author of COME AWAY WITH ME
"Things To Do When It's Raining has heart and soul and guts, and it has achingly beautiful prose and characters so dear and real I couldn't bear to say goodbye when I reached its final page. It's a book about friendship and secrets, grief and regret, the peculiar shape of families and the redemptive nature of love. And it is, quite frankly, one of the best books I have read in a very long time." -Jennifer Robson, internationally bestselling author of Somewhere in France and After the War is Over.
"Things To Do When It's Raining is spellbinding. I fell in love with Mae Summers from the first page, and I followed her, heart between my teeth, as she uncovered family secrets and reconsidered her place in the world. Full of engaging characters, sensitivity and insight, Marissa Stapley's newest novel is a beautiful, emotionally acute saga that makes us all reconsider the meaning of love and family. I couldn't put it down." -Danila Botha, author of For All the Men (and Some of the Women) I've Known and Too Much on the Inside
"A generous book about imperfect people, a novel about the family we choose, the mistakes we make, and how love, flawed and searching and messy, is the only path to forgiveness. It's also a gorgeously written page-turner, and when I finished it, I flipped right back to page one to savor it just a little bit more." -Lauren Fox, author of Days of Awe
Praise for Rebecca Rosenblum's SO MUCH LOVE (World Rights Available Ex: Canada, McClelland & Stewart; Poland, PRÓSZYŃSKI). Contact [email protected]:
"A marvellously assured, multi-layered page turner. Chilling. Brilliant." -Barbara Gowdy, author of Helpless
"Elegant in form, So Much Love does what only fiction can - it gives a wide view of a horrific crime and shows how it fractures a small community. In a world of slippery truths and narrow perception, this beautiful, taut, and chilling story feels necessary and true."
-Claire Cameron, author of The Bear
"Compelling and superbly crafted from start to finish, So Much Love is a thoughtful and disturbing look into the deep layers of a crime and its aftermath." -Diane Schoemperlen, author of This Is Not My Life
Praise for Cary Fagan's THE OLD WORLD (World Rights to House of Anansi, Spring 2017). Contact [email protected]:
"I absolutely loved this collection of very short stories inspired by a series of wonderful found photographs. Cary Fagan has a real ear for dialogue and a way of making each perfectly formed vignette surprising, whether that's taking a surreal turn in 'We Have to Be Careful,' introducing the macabre in 'Who I've Come For,' or quietly breaking my heart, in 'Where We Are Now.'" -Claire Fuller, author of Swimming Lessons
"What a dazzlingly imaginative thing to do - Cary Fagan has taken a group of orphaned photographs from the past and turned them into a cabinet of wonders! Inventive, satisfying, and deft, The Old World gets right to the heart of the storytelling craft." -Marni Jackson, author of Don't I Know You?
Praise for BIG FIT GIRL: Embrace the Body You Have by Louise Green (Greystone, March 2017). Contact [email protected]:
"An inspiring and useful book for women who see their size as an impediment to getting fit and healthy...an important rallying cry for big women to step forward, get noticed, and prove that they don't have to be thin to succeed-athletically or in any other way."
-Publishers Weekly
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New Clients
Angie Abdou
Angie Abdou has published four books, including three novels:
The Bone Cage (a CBC Canada Reads finalist in 2011),
The Canterbury Trail (a Banff Mountain Book finalist in 2011) and
Between (2014, Arsenal Press). The latter has been reviewed favourably in
The Globe and Mail,
National Post,
Winnipeg Review,
Quill and Quire and
The Vancouver Sun. In the United States, New York's Library Journal listed Between as a Top 13 Indie Pick for Spring 2015. For
The Bone Cage, Angie won the 2012 MacEwan Book of the Year, and in doing so joined a prestigious group of authors, including Margaret Atwood and Yann Martel.
Between was named a "Best of 2014" book by
PRISM Magazine,
49th Shelf, and
The Vancouver Sun. Angie is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Athabasca University. Her nonfiction has appeared in various magazines and newspapers, including
National Post and
Elle Magazine. Abdou's next book, HOCKEY MOM examines the struggles, joys and strains that having a child in amateur hockey puts on the parents and children. Charting a full season of Abdou's life dedicated to supporting her son's passion for amateur hockey, the memoir offers a sensitive portrait of today's hockey parent. Abdou's voyeuristic stories about (often troubling) sport culture provide an honest and complex reflection on how to best parent today's young athlete. Angie is represented by Samantha Haywood and Jesse Finkelstein. Contact:
[email protected]
Billy-Ray Belcourt
Billy-Ray Belcourt is from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is a 2016 Rhodes Scholar and is reading for an M.St. in Women's Studies at the University of Oxford. He was named by CBC Books (a la Tracey Lindberg) as one of six Indigenous writers to watch, and his poetry has been published in
Assaracus: A Journal of Gay Poetry,
Red Rising Magazine,
SAD Mag,
mamawi-acimowak,
The Yellow Medicine Review,
The Malahat Review, and
PRISM International. His first book, THIS WOUND IS A WORLD: POEMS & ESSAYS, is forthcoming in fall 2017 with Frontenac House. Billy-Ray is represented by Stephanie Sinclair. Contact:
[email protected]
Sara Lynn Cauchon
Sara Lynn Cauchon wants to make eating well a lot more delicious. Since launching her YouTube channel, THE DOMESTIC GEEK, in April 2014 she has earned more than 935,000 dedicated subscribers who appreciate her fresh, fuss-free approach to healthy cooking. In that time she's shared more than 600 original, mouth-watering recipes as well as countless tips and tricks for making life at home easier. Thanks to the channel's unprecedented growth Sara Lynn has attracted the attention of international broadcasters, agencies, media and content creators from all over the world including Martha Stewart's Everyday Food and Jamie Oliver's Drinks Tube. Her passion for all-things-delicious recently earned her the title of Breakout Foodie of the Year at The Taste Awards. Sara Lynn is also an established host/producer/director who has more than a decade of broadcast experience. She has hosted a number of television programs including Diva On A Dime, GirlzTV and HGTV's Rooms That Rock, for which she was nominated for the GEMINI Viewer's Choice Award for Best Host In A Lifestyle Series. An experienced guest expert, Sara Lynn has made dozens of appearances on hit daytime television shows such as The Social and Steven and Chris. Her work has been featured in several major magazines including Eat This, Not That and Today's Parent. Sara Lynn is preparing her first highly anticipated THE DOMESTIC GEEK cookbook. Contact: [email protected]
Harold R. Johnson
Harold R. Johnson is the author of five works of fiction and two non-fiction. His most recent work Firewater: How Alcohol Is Killing My People (and Yours) was nominated for the Governor General's Award for Nonfiction. Born and raised in northern Saskatchewan to Swede Cree parents, Harold has a connection to the land from which he writes. After having had a variety of occupations, Harold attended Harvard University to obtain a Master's Degree in Law. Harold managed a private law practice for several years before he became a Crown Prosecutor. He and his wife Joan live at the north end of Montreal Lake, Saskatchewan where they continue the traditions of trapping and commercial fishing. The cabin they built together is off grid and without road access. In this quiet space, except for the howling of a dozen sleigh dogs, and the caw of the occasional raven, he can listen to the sounds the land makes and remember ancient stories.Harold is working on a novel and his next work of nonfiction. Harold is represented by Stephanie Sinclair. Contact: [email protected]
Ivy Knight
Ivy Knight is working on her debut novel CHEF GODS. For readers of
Sweetbitter, CHEF GODS follows the lives of three young dreamers making their way through the incredibly glamorous and notoriously sleazy world of hot restaurants and celebrity chefs and where the stakes are high and the spoils are only for those brazen and desperate enough to claim them. Before working on her first novel Ivy spent ten years cooking professionally and then left restaurant kitchens to write full time. She has published two cookbooks and writes regularly for
The Globe and Mail, the
Toronto Star and
Munchies. She grew up on Prince Edward Island and lives in Toronto with her husband Kerry and two dogs, Poppy and Dr. Nut. Ivy is represented by Samantha Haywood. Contact:
[email protected]
Dr. Deborah MacNamara
Dr. Deborah MacNamara is on faculty at the Neufeld Institute; the director of Kid's Best Bet, a counselling and family resource centre; and the author of the bestselling book
Rest, Play, Grow: Making Sense of Preschoolers (Or Anyone Who Acts Like One).
Rest, Play, Grow has been translated into Russian, Italian, and German. She travels nationally and internationally, speaking to about sixty groups a year, including the United Nations, the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education, and groups of parents, educators, child care professionals, social workers, the foster and adopt community, and health care professionals. MacNamara counsels parents and professionals to make sense of learning, behavioural, and developmental issues in kids - from babies to teens. She completed a two-year postdoctoral internship with Dr. Gordon Neufeld, and is an award-winning researcher with over twenty years of experience as a teacher and counsellor working with leading institutions such as the University of British Columbia, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, the Canadian Mental Health Association, and the Vancouver School Board. Deborah regularly appears on radio and TV, and her articles appear in parenting magazines, websites, and newsletters across Canada and internationally, including
Australia's Nurture - Natural Parenting Magazine, where she is a regular contributor. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with her family and consciously works at creating an attachment village for her children to grow up in. Contact:
[email protected]
Judy Rebick
Judy Rebick is a well-known social justice activist, writer, educator and speaker. Her latest books are Transforming Power: From the Personal to the Political and Occupy This! Her other books include Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution (Penguin 2005) and Imagine Democracy (Douglas and McIntyre 2000). Founding publisher of Rabble.ca, Canada's popular independent online news and discussion site, Judy continues to blog on rabble. She is perhaps best known to Canadians as a former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, Canada's largest women's group. During the 1990s, Judy was the host of a two national TV show on CBC Newsworld and is a frequent commentator on CBC radio and television. She was also a well known spokesperson for the pro-choice movement during the fight to legalize abortion in the 1980s. Judy was the first CAW Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy. She was also a regular on the media panel for Q on CBC radio. Rebick's new book HEROES IN MY HEAD is a memoir of discovery as she unlocks through therapy her childhood trauma of sexual abuse and her resulting Multiple Personality Syndrome which not only had helped her cope with the abuse but guided her fearlessly through a career of activism. Contact: [email protected]
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