March 2010 Sales TV adaptation rights to Jeremy Duns’ Free Agent series have sold to the BBC. February 2010 DreamWorks Animation has set Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris, the writers of Kung Fu Panda, to write Gil’s All Fright Diner, an adaptation of the A. Lee Martinez novel. Gil’s All Fright Diner has Barry Sonnenfeld attached to direct. Sales Spanish rights to A. Lee Martinez’s Monster have sold to Minotauro/Planeta. US rights to Hiromi Goto’s Half World have sold to Viking Penguin. French and Polish rights have sold to BAAM and MAG, respectively. January 2010 Sales North American audio rights to Jesse Bullington’s The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart have sold to Brilliance Audio. December 2009 Sales Illustrator and comic book artist Nina Matsumoto is the illustrator of The Last Airbender Movie Prequel manga from Del Rey Manga available in May 2010. Awards Congratulations to Sarah Waters. The Little Stranger is one of The New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of 2009 and a Salon’s Top Five Fiction pick of 2009. Congratulations to Nina Matsumoto. Yokaiden is a 2010 YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens nominee. Congratulations to Alanna Mitchell. Sea Sick has been named to The Globe 100, The Globe and Mail’s top 100 books of 2009. Congratulations to Catherine Gildiner. After the Falls has been named to The Globe 100, The Globe and Mail’s top 100 books of 2009. Congratulations to John Irving. Last Night in Twisted River is on The Globe and Mail’s bestseller list. November 2009 Sales World English rights to A. Lee Martinez’s next two books have sold to Orbit. Dutch rights to Shandi Mitchell’s Under This Unbroken Sky have sold to Orlando/AW Bruna. North American rights to Andrew Podnieks’ The Strangest Thing have sold to McClelland & Stewart. Awards Congratulations to Hiromi Goto. Half World is a 2010 White Pine Award nominee. Congratulations to Marsha Skrypuch. Call Me Aram is a 2010 Golden Oak Award nominee and a Silver Birch Express Award nominee. Congratulations to John Irving. Last Night in Twisted River is on The New York Times and The Globe and Mail bestseller lists. Congratulations to Jesse Bullington. The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart has been chosen by Amazon.com as a Top 10 Science Fiction & Fantasy Book of 2009. Congratulations to Shandi Mitchell. Under This Unbroken Sky has been selected by Booklist as one of this year’s Top 10 First Novels. Congratulations to William Shawcross. Queen Elizabeth is on the Maclean’s bestseller list.
October 2009 Sales Complex Chinese rights to Shandi Mitchell’s Under This Unbroken Sky have sold to Commonwealth. Awards Congratulations to Reif Larsen. The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet has been shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Congratulations to Shandi Mitchell. Under This Unbroken Sky is on the Edmonton Journal bestseller list. September 2009 Sales World rights to Jesse Bullington’s The Enterprise of Death have sold to Orbit. Film rights to A. Lee Martinez’s Gil’s All Fright Diner have been optioned to DreamWorks Animation. Awards Congratulations to Sarah Waters! The Little Stranger has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Congratulations to Reif Larsen. The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet has been shortlisted for the Boeke Prize. August 2009 Sales North American rights to Robin Spano’s Dead Politicians have sold to ECW in a three-book deal. Complex Chinese rights to A. Lee Martinez’s Too Many Curses, The Automatic Detective, Monster, and Divine Misfortune have sold to Gaea. US rights to Catherine Gildiner’s After the Falls have sold to Penguin. German rights to A. Lee Martinez’s Divine Misfortune have sold to Piper Verlag. World rights to Gail Whitiker’s The Mistress Wager have sold to Harlequin Mills & Boon. World rights to Gillian Chan’s The Call of Arms have sold to Scholastic Canada. Awards Congratulations to Reif Larsen. The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet has been longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Congratulations to Jonathan Bennett. Entitlement has been longlisted for the ninth annual Relit Awards. Congratulations to Shandi Mitchell. Under This Unbroken Sky has been chosen for the September 2009 Indie Next List. Congratulations to Alanna Mitchell. Sea Sick has been named an Amazon Best Books of Year (so far). July 2009 Sales World rights to Andrew Podnieks’ Canada’s Olympic Hockey History have sold to Fenn Publishing. Awards Congratulations to Sarah Waters. The Little Stranger has been longlisted for the Booker Prize. Congratulations to Nina Matsumoto for winning an Eisner Award. June 2009 Check out A Conversation with John Irving where he discusses Last Night in Twisted River and his writing life with Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of the Book Review of The New York Times. Sales World rights to Andrew Podnieks’ The Year of the Penguins have sold to Fenn Publishing. Awards Congratulations to Sarah Waters and C. J. Sansom. Waters’s The Little Stranger and Sansom’s Revelation have both been selected as The Sunday Times (UK) 100 Best Holiday Reads. The Little Stranger is a Top 12 choice! Congratulations to Melanie Little. The Apprentice’s Masterpiece was awarded gold in the category of multicultural fiction (children’s) by the 2009 Independent Publishers Book (IPPY) Awards. Congratulations to Sarah Waters. The Little Stranger is number one on the Maclean’s bestseller list. Congratulations to Reif Larsen. The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet is on the Maclean’s bestseller list. Congratulations to Erin Dionne. Models Don’t Eat Chocolate Cookies has been nominated as one of ALA’s 2010 Popular Paperbacks. May 2009 Sales Polish rights to Jesse Bullington’s The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart have sold to Wydawnictwo Mag. Awards Congratulations to Gordon Pitts. Stampede: The Rise of the West and Canada’s New Power Elite has won the 2009 National Business Book Award. Congratulations to Sarah Waters and Reif Larsen. The Little Stranger and The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet are on Maclean’s bestseller list. April 2009 Sales World rights to the next two books of Sharon Ashwood’s The Dark Forgotten paranormal romance series have sold to NAL. Awards Congratulations to John DeMont. Coal Black Heart is on the Maclean’s bestseller list. Congratulations to Gordon Pitts. Stampede: The Rise of the West and Canada’s New Power Elite is a finalist for the 2009 National Business Book Award. Congratulations to Nina Matsumoto. Nina has been nominated for an Eisner Award. Congratulations to Alanna Mitchell. Sea Sick is on the Globe & Mail, Maclean’s, and Vancouver Sun bestseller lists. March 2009 Sales Hebrew rights to Shandi Mitchell’s Under This Unbroken Sky have sold to Kinneret. Awards Congratulations to Patrick Lane. Patrick Lane’s Red Dog, Red Dog is a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Congratulations to Colleen Craig. Colleen Craig’s Afrika has been nominated for the 2009 Violet Downey Book Award. February 2009 Awards Congratulations to Kenneth J. Harvey. Kenneth J. Harvey’s Blackstrap Hawco has been shortlisted for The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Best Book (Canada & Caribbean). Congratulations to Craig Boyko. Craig Boyko’s Blackouts has been shortlisted for The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Best First Book (Canada & Caribbean). Congratulations to Holly Phillips. Holly Phillips’s The Engine’s Child has made the Locus 2008 Recommended Reading List. January 2009 Sales Canadian rights to Mary Novik’s Muse have sold to Doubleday Canada. Canadian rights to Kate Taylor’s A Man in Uniform have sold to Doubleday Canada. Canadian rights to Chantel Simmons’s Love Struck have sold to Key Porter. December 2008 Sales Serbian rights to Colleen Craig’s Afrika have sold to Kreativni Centar. Brazilian Portuguese rights to Hardie Grant Egmont’s Go Girl! Two Sides series and Go Girl! Angels series have sold to Fundamento. Canadian rights to Catherine Gildiner’s After the Falls have sold to Knopf Canada. Greek rights to Patrick Lane’s Red Dog, Red Dog have sold to Kastaniotis. Canadian rights to Marsha Skrypuch’s Stolen Child have sold to Scholastic Canada. Canadian rights to Dianne Warren’s The Oasis Cafe have sold to Phyllis Bruce Books/HarperCollins Canada in a two-book deal. Awards Congratulations to Shandi Mitchell. Shandi Mitchell won the 2008 Canada Council for the Arts Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for Media Arts. Congratulations to Neil Smith. Neil Smith’s Bang Crunch was selected by The Washington Post as one of the best books of 2008. Congratulations to Kenneth J. Harvey. Blackstrap Hawco was named by Quill & Quire as one of “The 15 Books That Mattered Most in 2008”. Congratulations to Craig Boyko, Kenneth J. Harvey, and Patrick Lane. Craig Boyko’s Blackouts, Kenneth J. Harvey’s Blackstrap Hawco, and Patrick Lane’s Red Dog, Red Dog have been selected by The Globe and Mail as Best Books of the Year. Craig Boyko’s Blackouts was also selected as one of the Top Five First Fiction. Congratulations to Kevin DeWalt and Nicholas Campbell for their Gemini Award wins for the dramatic mini-series adaptation of Guy Vanderhaeghe’s The Englishman’s Boy. The Englishman’s Boy won in the Best Dramatic Mini-Series and Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role categories.
November 2008 Sales Canadian rights to Sarah Waters’s The Little Stranger have sold to McClelland & Stewart. Canadian rights to John Irving’s Last Night in Twisted River have sold to Knopf Canada. UK hardcover rights to John Irving’s Last Night in Twisted River have sold to Bloomsbury. UK paperback rights have sold to Transworld. Awards Congratulations to Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné. Their translation of Neil Smith’s Bang Crunch has won the 2008 Quebec Writers’ Federation Translation Prize. Congratulations to Richard B. Wright. Richard B. Wright's October has been longlisted for the 2009 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
October 2008 Sales UK rights to Patrick Lane’s Red Dog, Red Dog have sold to Heinemann. Romanian rights to A. Lee Martinez’s The Automatic Detective have sold to Editura Tritonic. Spanish, Italian, Catalan, and Portuguese (Brazil) rights to Emily White’s The Empty Room: A Compass to the Points of Loneliness have sold to Santillana, Mondadori, Pagès Editors, and Ediouro, respectively. German rights to A. Lee Martinez’s Monster have sold to Piper Verlag. North American English and French rights to Edward O. Phillips’s A Month of Sundays have sold to Cormorant Books. Awards Congratulations to Bill Richardson and Cynthia Nugent for winning the 2008 Time to Read Award/B.C. Foundation Award for Early Literacy for The Aunts Come Marching. Congratulations to Douglas Hunter. Douglas Hunter’s God’s Mercies has been nominated for the 2008 Governor General’s Literary Award for English-Language Non-fiction. Congratulations to Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné. Their translation of Neil Smith’s Bang Crunch has been nominated for the 2008 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation (English to French) and shortlisted for the 2008 Quebec Writers’ Federation Translation Prize. Congratulations to Patrick Lane. Patrick Lane’s Red Dog, Red Dog has been shortlisted for The Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.
September 2008 Sales US and Canadian rights to Wendy French Smith's tween novel Callie Boone have sold to Feiwel & Friends and Scholastic Canada, respectively. Wendy will write under her childhood nickname of Winnie Mack. Canadian rights to Matthew Hooton's Deloume Road have sold to Knopf Canada on behalf of Greene & Heaton. Dutch rights to Patrick Lane's Red Dog, Red Dog have sold to Signatuur (A.W. Bruna). UK rights to Alanna Mitchell's Seasick: The Hidden Ecological Crisis of the Global Ocean have sold to Oneworld. French rights to Patrick Lane's Red Dog, Red Dog have sold to Gallimard at auction. Awards Congratulations to Kenneth J. Harvey and Patrick Lane. Kenneth J. Harvey's Blackstrap Hawco and Patrick Lane's Red Dog, Red Dog have been longlisted for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The dramatic mini-series based on Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Englishman's Boy has received 12 Gemini Award nominations, including Best Dramatic Mini-Series. Bernice Eisenstein's I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors has been nominated for the prestigious German Jugenliteraturpreis.
August 2008 World rights to Jesse Bullington's debut novel The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart have sold to Orbit/Hachette USA. Awards Congratulations to CS Richardson. The End of the Alphabet has been shortlisted for the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada award for Best First Novel.
July 2008 World English rights to Douglas Hunter’s 1609: Henry Hudson and the Voyage That Changed America were sold to Bloomsbury USA at auction. Canadian rights to Reif Larsen's debut novel The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet have been sold to Penguin Canada on behalf of The Denise Shannon Literary Agency. Canadian rights to Rob Carrick’s What’s Good, Bad and Downright Awful in the World of Investing to Doubleday Canada. US rights to Shandi Mitchell’s Under This Unbroken Sky have sold to HarperCollins. Awards CS Richardson’s The End of the Alphabet has been nominated for Utah’s Salt Lake county library system's Reader's Choice Award. June 2008 French rights to Simon Eliot's Everything You Need to Know about the World have sold to Michel Lafon in France. German rights to A. Lee Martinez's Too Many Curses (formerly titled Nessy's Castle), have sold to Piper Verlag. Canadian rights to Jeremy Duns' debut thriller Free Agent, the first in a trilogy about a suspected MI6 double-agent, have been sold to Simon & Schuster UK in a three-book deal on behalf of Greene & Heaton. UK/Commonwealth rights to Shandi Mitchell's debut novel Under This Unbroken Sky have sold to Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Japanese rights to four titles in the Zac Power series, about an ordinary boy on extraordinary adventures with plenty of gadgets and spy equipment have sold to GOMA. Awards Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (the most important Portuguese private institution in the arts, education and science) has praised Everything You Need to Know about the World by Simon Eliot as one of the best children's books of the year.
May 2008 Sales Foreign rights to Piers Steel’s The Procrastination Equation: The Science of Getting Things Done have been sold to Mondadori Italy, Minumsa in South Korea, Ten Have in Holland, Best-Seller in Brazil, Mondadori Spain, Eurasian Press in Taiwan, Luebbe of Germany, and Pearson UK. World English rights to A Lee Martinez’s novel Monster have sold to Orbit USA in a two-book deal. French rights to CS Richardson's The End of the Alphabet have sold to Editions du Panama. Awards Congratulations to Alanna Mitchell who has been awarded the prestigious $100,000 Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy.
April 2008
Turkish rights to six titles in Australian publisher Hardie Grant Egmont's Zac Power series, and six titles in the Go Girl! series have sold to Caretta Publishing. Brazilian rights to seven titles in Australian publisher Hardie Grant Egmont's Zac Power series, and nine titles in the Go Girl! series to Editora Fundamento. Awards Congratulations to Craig Boyko for winning the Journey Prize for "OZY", one of the eleven short stories in Blackouts. Congratulations to Mary Novik. Conceit is the winner of the 2008 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
March 2008
Canadian rights to Roy MacSkimming's Laurier in Love have sold to Thomas Allen. Awards Congratulations to Claire Mulligan and Mary Novik. Claire Mulligan’s The Reckoning of Boston Jim and Mary Novik’s Conceit are finalists for the 2008 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Janice Kulyk Keefer’s The Ladies' Lending Library has won the 2008 Kobzar Literary Award. CS Richardson's The End of the Alphabet has won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in Canada and the Caribbean.
February 2008
Canadian rights to Dr Piers Steel’s The Procrastination Equation: The Science of Getting Things Done have sold to Random House Canada in a six-figure deal. World rights for Stephen Cole's Xtreme Hockey have sold to Madison Press. Madison has sold the book to Simon & Schuster in New York. Film rights to A Lee Martinez’s novel In the Company of Ogres have been optioned by Rough Draft Studios (The Simpsons Movie, Futurama). US rights to Fiona Farrell’s novel Mr Allbones’ Ferrets: An Historical Pastoral Satirical Scientifical Romance, with Mustelids have sold to Thomas Dunne Books (St Martin’s Press).
January 2008 Canadian rights to two more titles in Australian publisher Hardie Grant Egmont’s Zac Power series, about an ordinary boy on extraordinary adventures with plenty of gadgets and spy equipment, have sold to Scholastic Canada. World rights to Tony Aspler’s The Complete Cellar Book: How to Design, Build, Stock and Manage Your Wine Cellar Wherever You Live have sold to Random House Canada. World rights to Joan Clark’s young adult novel Bliss have sold to Doubleday Canada in a two-book deal. Awards A Nameless Witch by A. Lee Martinez, published by TOR Books, has been selected by the American Library Association for the 2008 Amelia Bloomer Project list of recommended feminist literature for young readers.
December 2007 Sales Canadian rights to Shree Ghatage's Waiting have sold to Doubleday Canada. Awards Mary Novik’s novel Conceit was selected by The Globe and Mail as one of Best Books of the Year and as one of the Top Five First Fiction books.
November 2007 Piper Verlag has acquired German rights to A. Lee Martinez’s novel The Automatic Detective about a bad robot trying to make good who finds himself in the middle of a kidnapping plot and up to his opticals in mutant lowlifes and little green wiseguys. Italian rights to Janice Kulyk Keefer’s The Green Library have sold to Baldini. Awards Balls! by Angela Murrills is the Canadian winner of the 2007 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards for Best Foreign Cuisine Book.
October 2007 US rights to historian Peter Clarke’s The Last Thousand Days of The British Empire which examines WWII as an unsuccessful imperialist war which resulted in the bankruptcy of the British Empire, and the shift of global power to the United States, have been sold to Bloomsbury Press. Awards Maria Tippett’s biography Portrait in Light and Shadow: The Life of Yousuf Karsh has been long-listed for the $40,000 British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction.
September 2007 Brazilian rights for CS Richardson's The End of the Alphabet have sold to Mercuryo. Simplified Chinese rights for CS Richardson's The End of the Alphabet have sold to Shanghai Translation. Polish rights to Richard B. Wright's Adultery have sold to Bela Med. Awards Mary Novik's Conceit and Claire Mulligan's The Reckoning of Boston Jim have been long-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Tony Aspler's The Wine Atlas of Canada has been short-listed in the Special Interest Category of the Canadian Culinary Book Awards.
July 2007 North American rights to Erin Dionne's debut novel for tweens, Models Don't Each Chocolate Cookies have sold to Dial Young Reader's in a six-figure pre-empt for two books. US rights to Hardie Grant Egmont’s Fairy School Dropout trilogy by Meredith Badger, have sold to Holtzbrinck imprint Feiwel + Friends in a mid-five figure deal. US and UK rights to Janice Kulyk Keefer's The Ladies' Lending Library have sold to HarperCollins and Atlantic Books, respectively.
June 2007 Raincoast Books has bought Canadian rights to Hardie Grant Egmont’s Fairy School Dropout trilogy by Meredith Badger.
May 2007 Mondadori Spain has acquired Spanish rights to Everything You Need To Know About The World by Simon Eliot, at auction. This funny and informative non-fiction book of curious facts and feats designed for the reluctant middle grade reader has already been acquired by Four Winds Press (NZ), Raincoast Books (Canada), St Martin’s Press (US), and Allen & Unwin (Australia), with film/tv rights going to Gibson Group & Great Western Entertainment for a TV show now on screen in New Zealand. Canadian rights to Australian publisher Hardie Grant Egmont's Go Girl! series and the Zac Power series have been acquired by Scholastic Canada, in a 6-book deal.
March 2007 Inside by Kenneth J. Harvey has won the 2006 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. The judges’ citation described the novel as “Daring, difficult, and utterly uncompromising… In a world of formulaic fiction, Inside is a point-blank godsend.”
Australian rights to the second Simon Eliot book by Lloyd Jones, Even More Things You Need to Know about the World, with more fascinating facts with quirky drawings, have sold to Allen & Unwin. Inside by Kenneth J. Harvey has been nominated for the 2006 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Past winners of the award include Alice Munro, Austin Clarke and Joseph Boyden.
January 2007 Russian rights to Wendy French's first two novels sMothering and Going Coastal have been sold to Olma. Awards The Toronto Star has selected Inside by Kenneth J. Harvey as one of the best books published in 2006. This is the ninth 'Best Book' honour that Inside has recently received.
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