here. And don't miss Anita's contribution to Thin Air, the first virtual edition of the Winnipeg International Writers Festival.
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| August 2020 |
| One Man’s Cross-Country Quest for Kitchen Inspiration: read John Ota's piece on his book The Kitchen in Architectural Digest.
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| May 2020 |
| The Court of Better Fiction by Debra Komar has been shortlisted for the 2020 Arthur Ellis Award, Best Nonfiction Crime Book.
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| April 3 2020 |
| The Kitchen by John Ota is about comfort food and the sense of community at the heart of the kitchen. Since most of us can't share that right now, try reading this captivating story of the evolution of the most important room in the house. The book was just featured in The Province. Check with your local bookstore to see if they are doing deliveries!
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| March 17 2020 |
| John Ota's The Kitchen is in the news! Listen to John on Marion Kane's "Sittin' in the Kitchen" podcast. Read features in Quill & Quire and The Globe & Mail. John's BC events are postponed for now but will hopefully take place later this year. More information and where to buy.
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| January 27 2020 |
| Book launch Alert! Appetite by Random House and John Ota invite you to a celebration of The Kitchen: A journey through time - and the homes of Julia Child, Georgia O'Keeffe, Elvis Presley and many others-in search of the perfect design. Join us on February 25 at 6pm at Ben McNally Books in Toronto for light refreshments and remarks, followed by a book signing. Information here. Events in BC in Vancouver on March 19th and Saanich on March 22.
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| January 8 2020 |
| Congratulations to Terri Favro (Sputnik's Children), Carla Gunn (Amphibian) and Richard Van Camp (The Lesser Blessed). All three novels are among the fifteen books on the Canada Reads longlist.
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| January 6 2020 |
| Wolsak & Wynn/Buckrider Books has acquired a debut novel from author Katie Welch to be published 2021.
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| January 2 2020 |
 John Ota's The Kitchen: A Journey Through Time, will be published by Appetite by Random House on February 25th 2020. Look out for book launch news.
The Kitchen enters the homes of Julia Child, Georgia O'Keeffe, Elvis Presley and many others-in search of the perfect design. It is one man's quest to seek out--and be inspired by--the great historic kitchens of Canada and the USA.
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| October 19 2019 |
| Congratulations to Philip Huynh whose debut collction, The Forbidden Purple City, was a finalist for the 2019 City of Vancouver Book Award.
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| Aug 1 2019 |
| Another book to be published by prolific author Jen Sookfong Lee! A Place to Call Home, a new middle-grade non-fiction project on the experiences of immigrant and refugee children coming to Canada, will be out in fall 2020 with Orca Books.
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| July 5 2019 |
| We are delighted to welcome author Anita Daher to our client list. Look for her next YA novel, You Don't Have to Die in the End, next year from Great Plains.
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| June 5 2019 |
| Look for coverage of Philip Huynh's collection, The Forbidden Purple City in the upcoming summer issue of BC Booklook, and come to book signings/events in Victoria (June 17, Hillside Coffee & Tea), Vancouver (July 13, Indigo downtown) and Winnpieg (Aug 1, McNally Robinson). Philip will be appearing at several festivals in the fall. Stay tuned for announcements.
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| May 22 2019 |
| CBC Books has chosen Philip Huynh's collection, The Forbidden Purple City as one of their 9 picks for Short Story Month.
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| April 15 2019 |
| Flights and Falls is book four in R.M. Greenaway's BC Blues Crime series and it is out now. Order your copy today!
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| January 31 2019 |
| Jen Sookfong Lee launches her new picture book, The Animals of Chinese New Year on Tuesday, Feb 5, the first day of the year of the Earth Pig, with an all-day Twitter event! Beautiful book in English and Chinese.
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| December 18 2018 |
| Blackberry Cove, the third book in Roxanne Snopek's Sunset Bay series is out now!
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| October 9 2018 |
| Lots of amazing attention for Andrea Warner's Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography. Read reviews in The Globe & Mail and Quill & Quire here. And Buffy and Andrea have events together later this month in Vancouver, Toronto and New York!
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| October 4 2018 |
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Le Saint Patron des Merveilles, translated by Catherine Leroux and published by �ditions Alto, has been shortlisted for the Governor General�s Literary Awards for translation. It is the French edition of Fabrizio�s Return by Mark Frutkin, originally published by Vintage Canada in 2006.
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| September 19 2018 |
| Dazzle Patterns by Alison Watt is the winner of the 2018 Alberta Book Publishing Award for Trade Fiction Book of the Year. Congratulations Alison! See the list of winners here.
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| August 13 2018 |
| Read Quill & Quire's great review of Holly Dobbie's YA debut, Fifteen Point Nine. Out now from Dancing Cat Books.
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| August 9 2018 |
| Congratulations to Philip Huynh, whose story "The Forbidden Purple City" (EVENT) is on the longlist for the 2018 Writers' Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. It is the title story in a collection to be released by Goose Lane Editions in Spring 2019.
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| July 10 2018 |
| Alexandra Holden's sequel to YA novel Tangled in Tennessee, Tangled on Tour, will appear later this year from Inkspell. Mackenzie Tanner's life changed when she befriended a famous teen boy band while writing songs in Nashville. Now her dreams are coming true... but is fame what she really wants?
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| June 11 2018 |
| Congratulations to Terri Favro, whose novel Sputnik's Children is nominated for the 2018 Sunburst Award For Excellence In Canadian Literature Of The Fantastic.
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| May 1 2018 |
| Congratulations to Alison Watt and DAZZLE PATTERNS, on her nomination for the Amazon First Novel Award. Dazzle Patterns is a dazzling novel that begins in Halifax the day of the 1917 Halifax Explosion.
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| April 3 2018 |
 Buffy Saint-Marie, the Authorized Biography by Andrea Warner is now available for preorder here or from your local bookstore. Don't miss out on this fabulous book!
Folk hero. Songwriter icon. Living legend. Buffy Sainte-Marie is all of these things and more. In this, Sainte-Marie�s first and only authorized biography, music critic Andrea Warner draws from more than sixty hours of exclusive interviews to offer a powerful, intimate look at the life of the beloved artist and everything that she has accomplished in her seventy-seven years (and counting).
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| March 29 2018 |
| Congratulations to Mark Zuehlke, whose latest book, The Cinderella Campaign: First Canadian Army and the Battles for the Channel Ports (Douglas & McIntyre) is on the shortlist for the 2018 John W. Dafoe Book Prize.
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| Feb 23 2018 |
| Long before Arthur Black became a client of our agency in 1995, his Basic Black program on CBC radio was the highlight of our weekends. Our appreciation of his gentle wit and observations about this crazy life continued through many years and many books. Typically, his last communication thanked us for being in his life. We thank him for being in ours and making the world a funnier and happier place.
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| Nov 26 2017 |
Event alerts! Alison Watt, author of Dazzle Patterns, will be at Audreys Books, 10702 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton launching her novel with Daniel Griffin on Monday, November 27 7pm, free.
November 29th is Freehand�s annual Calgary celebration! Featuring Alison Watt, Daniel Griffin, and Susan Ouriou.
7pm at Memorial Park Library Salon, main floor, 1221 2nd Street SW, Calgary. Admission is free.
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| Nov 25 2017 |
| Sputnik's Children is on the Globe 100 - the Globe & Mail's list of the best books of 2107.
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| Nov 24 2017 |
| Leona Gom's dystopiam feminist masterpiece, The Y Chromosone has been optioned by Mind Creatures Entertainment. It will be republished by Cormorant Books.
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| Nov 20 2017 |
| Philip Huynh's collection of short fiction, currently titled Toad Poem, has been sold to Goose Lane Editions.
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| Nov 16 2017 |
 Sweep Lotus by Mark Zuehlke has been optioned for the screen by Optic Nerve.
All three books in the Elias McCann mystery series (which includes Hands Like Clouds and Carry Tiger to Mountain) are now available as e-books and print on demand.
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| Nov 15 2017 |
| To be published in May 2019 - The Kitchen: A journey through time to find the perfect design, in which architect John Ota visits, explores and cooks in historic kitchens across North America. To Appetite by Random House.
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| Nov 6 2017 |
| 15.9, a YA novel by Holly Dobbie, has been sold to Dancing Cat Books.
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| Oct 30 2017 |
 Cover reveal for The Infamous Miss Ilsa by Laine Fernadale. Pre-order now! Out November 20th from Crimson Romance!
Also read the first book in the series, The Scandalous Mrs. Wilson.
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| Oct 22 2017 |
| Dazzle Patterns by Alison Watt is out now!
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| September 5 2017 |
| Join Halfmoon Bay author, Kara Stanley, on September 30th, 2017, 6:30 PM at the Sunshine Coast Arts Council for the launch of her new novel, "Ghost Warning". With entertainment by Gut Bucket Thunder.
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| July 18 2017 |
| Sputnik's Children by Terri Favro is on CBC's list of 7 Canadian Books to Read if you Love Jane Austen!. And also on CBC Cross Country Checkup's summer reading list.
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| July 4 2017 |
| Tracey Lindberg's Birdie has been sold to Les Editions du Boreal for French language publication.
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| June 26 2017 |
| Three more books in the Fraser Springs historical romance series have been sold to Crimson Romance (Simon & Schuster). Read book one, The Scandalous Mrs Wilson by Laine Ferndale!
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| June 5 2017 |
| Book two in the BC Blues crime series from R. M. Greenaway is here! Grab your copy of Undertow soon.
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| May 24 2017 |
| The Scandalous Mrs. Wilson by Laine Ferndale is now available from Crimson Romance/Simon and Schuster. Read this frontier romance now!
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| May 14 2017 |
| Gentlemen of the Shade, Jen Sookfong Lee's personal examination of the Gus Van Sant film, My Own Private Idaho, will be out in June from ECW.
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| May 12 2017 |
| Sputnik's Children by Terri Favro is on the CBC's Mother's Day gift-buying guide!
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| April 3rd 2017 |
| Andrea Warner is writing an authorized biography of legendary musician Buffy Sainte-Marie. It will appear from Greystone Books in 2018.
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| March 17th 2017 |
| Congratulations to Jen Sookfong Lee (The Conjoined) and David Pitt-Brooke (Crossing Home Ground: A Grassland Odyssey Through Southern Interior British Columbia), both nominated at the 2017 BC Book Prizes, to be announced April 29th.
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| February 15th 2017 |
| A great review for Terri Favro's forthcoming novel Sputnik's Children in Kirkus Reviews. And an amazing review in Publishers Weekly.
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| January 30th 2017 |
| Audio rights to Birdie by Tracey Lindberg have been sold to Recorded Books.
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| January 15th 2017 |
| Ghost Warning by Kara Stanley and What we Once Believed by Andrea MacPherson have been sold to Caitlin Press.
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| December 6th 2016 |
| Sold to audible.com for audio: Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver by Frances Backhouse and The Bastard of Fort Stikine: Mutiny, Madness and Murder in the Hudson's Bay Company and The Ballad of Jacob Peck by Dr Debra Komar.
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| November 27th 2016 |
| Amazing review from The Globe & Mail for The Conjoined by Jen Sookfong Lee.
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| September 27th 2016 |
| A great review from CM Magazine for M.E. Reid's YA novel The Turing Machinists.
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| September 20th 2016 |
| Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver by Frances Backhouse has been nominated for The Butler Book Prize and shortlisted for the Lane Anderson Award.
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| September 19th 2016 |
| The Loxleys and Confederation (a graphic novel), published by Renegade Arts, won the Alberta Children's & Young Adult Book of the Year Award and also the Book Illustration award. Both were presented by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta. Mark Zuehlke and Alan Grant wrote the text.
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| September 16th 2016 |
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W.P. (Bill) Kinsella has passed away at the age of 81. He was a unique, creative and outrageously opinionated man. One of North America's most prolific and popular authors, he published almost thirty books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, which were translated into many languages around the world. His final work of fiction, RUSSIAN DOLLS, will be published later in 2016 by Coteau Books. A winner of many awards and honours (including the Leacock Award and the Order of Canada), he won many fans with his sly comic Hobbema Indian stories and shot to fame with the publication of his novel, SHOELESS JOE, which was adapted to become the film FIELD OF DREAMS.
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| August 25th 2016 |
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RUSSIAN DOLLS, a new collection of linked stories by WP Kinsella, will be published by Coteau Books in fall 2017. Wylie is a struggling author who lives in a rooming house occupied by an assortment of losers and hangers-on. A girl named Christie takes a room and eventually they move in together. Wylie believes that Christie is his Muse, and believing it makes it so; his stories begin to sell. Christie tells him dark, dangerously inconsistent stories of her past. Are any of them true? Or is the enticing but erratic Christie simply the better storyteller of the two?
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| July 25th 2016 |
 Publisher's Weekly has published a great review of Jen Sookfong Lee's brand new novel The Conjoined. Tons more great press has followed. The book will have a launch in Vancouver.
"...this captivating novel still moves with the pace of a thriller as it deftly fills in the gaps in the lives of several people, each fractured by horrors of their very own, joined as one in betrayal, trauma, and "uncertainty.
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| July 22th 2016 |
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CBC Books covers M. E. Redi's new YA novel, The Turing Machinsts in which 17-year-old Del starts a rock band in an attempt to deal with his parents' impending divorce, he follows in the footsteps of countless teens in both fiction and the real world. What sets Del and his bandmates apart: they all have Asperger's syndrome.
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| July 4th 2016 |
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Fantastic review of Mark Zuehlke's Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons: British Remittance Men in the Canadian West, published by Harbour in the Vancouver Sun.
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| June 22nd 2016 |
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Forensic scientist and author Debra Komar won the Canadian Authors Association 2016 literary award for Canadian history for her latest true historical murder mystery, The Bastard of Fort Stikine.
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| June 16th 2016 |
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Jennifer Villamere's Is Canada Even Real, a pop culture book, has been sold to Dundurn.
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| May 24th 2016 |
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Roxanne Snopek's SUNSET BAY SANCTUARY, a new series set on the Sanctuary Ranch on the south coast of Oregon, was sold to Tara Gavin at Zebra Shout, a Kensington imprint in a three book deal.
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| May 20th 2016 |
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Mark Zuehlke has been nominated for National Magazine Award in the category of Single Issue for his text in The Fight for Italy special issue from Legion Magazine.
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| May 11th 2016 |
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The Bastard of Fort Stikine by Debra Komar won the 2016 Prince Edward Island Book Award for Non-fiction.
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| April 26th 2016 |
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Birdie by Tracey Lindberg is on the shortlist for the Second Annual Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and the 2016 Alberta Literary Awards (Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction sponsored by The Banff Centre).
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| April 15th 2016 |
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Read reviews of R.M. Greenaway's Cold Girl in the Globe & Mail and Kirkus Reviews. Winner of the 2014 Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel.
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| March 15th 2016 |
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There has been a lot more press for Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver by Frances Backhouse. See the stories in Radio Canada International, the Chicago Tribune, the Seattle Times, and Publishers Weekly.
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| January 26th 2016 |
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Birdie by Tracey Lindberg is on the shortlist for the 2016 edition of CBC Canada Reads, the annual "battle of the books" which will air in March.
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| January 25th 2016 |
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Frances Backhouse, author of Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver, was on Oregon Public Broadcasting's Think Out Loud Roundtable. Listen to it here.
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| January 19th 2016 |
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Hugo House, the Seattle writers center, has selected The Bride Sripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even by Chris Westbury as one of the Books Hugo House Loved in 2015. Read Them This Year!
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| January 19th 2016 |
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Debra Komar has been selected as a writer-in-residence at Berton House for fall 2016.
Komar is the author of three books which apply modern forensic methods to solve historical crimes.
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| January 8th 2016 |
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ONCE THEY WERE HATS: In Search of the Mighty Beaver by FRANCES BACKHOUSE is #47 on the NATIONAL POST's NP99, their list of the best 99 books of 2015. The book has received numerous great rewiew including one from The Globe & Mail which calls it "fascinating and smartly written." Backhouse will appear at Powell's Books in Portland on Friday, January 15 2016 at 7:30pm.
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| December 17th 2015 |
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Birdie by Tracey Lindberg is on the longlist for the 2016 edition of CBC Canada Reads.
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| November 10th 2015 |
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Kara Stanley's memoir Fallen is longlisted for the BC National Award For Canadian Non-Fiction, one Of Canada's largest book prizes. More about the book here and also the prize here.
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| October 20th 2015 |
 The National Post says Frances Backhouse's Once They Were Hats "is deeply, enthrallingly, page-turningly fascinating." Read the review here and find out more about the book here.
"Frances Backhouse has written a wise and wily book, effortlessly blending history, natural history, science and sense, she tells us much that we didn�t know about our national totem, and about the persistence of nature caught in the spotlight of civilization." � Wayne Grady, author of The Natural History of the Great Lakes
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| September 8th 2015 |
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Tracey Lindberg will be appearing at the Eden Mills Writer�s Festival outside of Toronto on September 13 from 12:30 to 1:30 PM. She will be on The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers on September 10th.
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| August 28 2015 |
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W.P. Kinsella will appear at the Chilliwack Library on September 16th at 7pm, Word on the Street Saskatoon on September 20th, the Moose Jaw library on September 22nd, the Regina Main Library on September 24th at 7pm and Shelf Life Books in Calgary on September 30th at 7pm. Listen to a recent interview on Radio Book Club.
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| July 21 2015 |
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Excellent review in Literary Review of Canada for The Bastard of Fort Stikine by Deb Komar.
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| July 13 2015 |
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Excellent review in Publishers Weekly for Forgotten Victory: First Canadian Army and the Cruel Winter of 1944 by Mark Zuehlke.
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| July 12 2015 |
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Birdie by Tracey Lindberg had a fabulous review in the Edmonton Journal. Tracey will be at several Festivals in the fall including WOTS Saskatoon, Calgary Wordfest, Vancouver International Writers Festival and International Festival of Authors in Toronto - look out for news.
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| July 8 2015 |
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Frances Backhouse's forthcoming Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver is listed on the Globe & Mail's list of 20 books you'll be reading and talking about for the rest of the year. Backhouse is in the great company of Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Harper Lee and Dr. Seuss! Find out more about the book here.
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| June 26 2015 |
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Tracey Lindberg's novel Birdie had a fantastic review in the Globe & Mail. You can also listen to her recent interview on CBC Daybreak Alberta.
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| June 4 2015 |
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Congratulations to Roxanne Snopek, whose novel, Three River Ranch hit the USA Today bestseller list.
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| June 3 2015 |
 Congratulations to Tracey Lindberg, whose novel, Birdie, appeared on the Macleans bestseller list in its first week in print. Listen to Tracey on CBC's Q here and watch her on Canada AM here.
Tracey will appear at the Gibsons library on June 11th, at Bolen's Books in Victoria on June 16th and at Book Warehouse in Vancouver on July 3rd. Keep an eye on her website for more events and news.
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| May 27 2015 |
Forensic Anthropologist Debra Komar kicks off a national tour in Halifax on June 18, 2015, 7pm at the Central Library. Join Komar, author of the new book The Bastard of Fort Stikine: The Hudson's Bay Company and the Murder of John McLoughlin Jr., for a look at how modern forensic science, including ballistics, virtual autopsy, and crime scene reconstruction, unlocks the mystery of a murder at the heart of Hudson's Bay Company history.
June 25th in Prince George, June 26 in Terrace, June 28 in Vancouver, June 29th in Winnipeg. Event info here.
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| May 19 2015 |
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WP Kinsella will appear at the Strawberry Hill Chapters in Surrey BC at 1pm May 23rd. His new book is The Essential W.P. Kinsella.
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| May 13 2015 |
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Tracey Lindberg's debut novel, Birdie, will be published on May 26th by HarperCollins Canada. Bernice Meetoos is a big, beautiful Cree woman with a dark secret in her past. Bernice (Birdie) has left her home in northern Alberta on something of a vision quest, looking for family, for home, for understanding. She is also driven by the leftover teenaged desire to meet Pat John � Jesse from The Beachcombers � because he is, as she says, a working, healthy Indian man. Birdie heads for Molly�s Reach to find answers, but they are not the ones she expected. Keep up with Tracey Lindberg and the book here.
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| March 6 2015 |
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Gabrielle Prendergast has a new book sold to Orca Books, this time a middle grade novel entitled Pandas on the Eastside.
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| February 27 2015 |
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Tangled in Tennessee by Alexandra Holden has been sold to Inkspell.
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| February 25 2015 |
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The Essential WP Kinsella has received a starred review in Publisher's Weekly. "...each of these works, whether fantastic or realistic, is individually a small marvel of the storyteller�s art." Read the full review here.
Read more or order a copy at Tachyon Publications.
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| February 5 2015 |
| Fallen by Kara Stanley and The Bastard of Fort Stikine by Debra Komar are both on the CBC's 15 works of nonfiction to watch for in 2015. See the list here.
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| November 4 2014 |
| Fabrizio�s Comet, a two-act operetta based on Mark Frutkin�s award-winning novel, Fabrizio�s Return, was recently performed at St. Olaf College in Minnestoa. Professor of Music James McKeel has worked on adapting Frutkin�s novel for the stage for two years to be presented by St. Olaf student actors and musicians. Read the Ottawa Magazine article.
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| October 15 2014 |
| M.A.C. Farrant is the winner of the 2014 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. Her book The World Afloat, published by Talonbooks, is a collection of 75 irreverent and humorous stories that meld narrative with elements of prose, poem and farce.
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| September 29 2014 |
Nationally Acclaimed Military Author Mark Zuehlke Captures Prestigious Prize at Governor General's History Awards.
For his invaluable perspective about Canada's role and experiences in the Second World War, Canada's History Society has awarded this year's Governor General's History Award for Popular Media: The Pierre Berton Award to Mark Zuehlke from Victoria, British Columbia.
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| August 18 2014 |
| Gabrielle Prendergast is the Vancouver Public Library's 2014 Writer in Residence. Read the piece in the Vancouver Sun and the news release. Gabrielle's most recent books are the YA verse novels Audacious and Capricious.
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| August 12 2014 |
| W.P. Kinsella's
Shoeless Joe is commemorated as a butter carving at Iowa State Fair.
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| July 11 2014 |
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The Stonehenge Letters by Harry Karlinsky is reviewed in Publishers Weekly.
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| June 17 2014 |
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The Loxleys and the War of 1812 (a graphic novel), published by Renegade Arts, won the Alberta Children's & Young Adult Book of the Year Award and also the Book Illustration award. Both were presented by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta. Mark Zuehlke and Alan Grant wrote the text.
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| June 9 2014 |
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Tyler Trafford's ALMOST A GREAT ESCAPE had an astounding evening at the Alberta Writers Guild Literary Awards Gala, winning: The Alberta Readers� Choice Award,The Wilfred Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction and the W.O. Mitchell Book Prize.
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| June 9 2014 |
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Tyler Trafford's Almost A Great Escape had an astounding evening at the Alberta Writers Guild Literary Awards Gala, winning: The Alberta Readers� Choice Award,The Wilfred Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction and the W.O. Mitchell Book Prize.
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| June 2 2014 |
| The National Post liked The Stonhenge Letters by Harry Karlinky. Read the review.
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| May 26 2014 |
| Read the great Kirkus review for Chris F. Westbury's The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even.
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| April 16 2014 |
| Tyler Trafford's memoir Almost a Great Escape is up for a number of awards including the 2014 Alberta Readers� Choice Award, the W.O. Mitchell Book Prize and the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction book at the Alberta Literary Awards.
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| April 16 2014 |
| Debra Komar's The Ballad of Jacob Peck, is on the 2014 Atlantic Book Awards Shortlist.
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| April 15 2014 |
| Arthur Black's Fifty Shades of Black, is a finalist for the 2014 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.
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| April 14 2014 |
| Genni Gunn's Tracks, is on the shortlist for the
Creative Nonfiction Collective Society 2014 READERS� CHOICE AWARDS.
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| March 11 2014 |
| Gabrielle Prendergast's novel in verse, Audacious, is on the shortlist for the Canadian Library Association's 2014 Young Adult Book Award. Look out for the sequel, Capricious.
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| February 20 2014 |
| Tyler Trafford's memoir Almost A Great Escape has been nominated for the 2014 Alberta Readers' Choice Award.
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| February 6 2014 |
| Leon Berger will speak at Read Globally, Buy Locally. February 15th, 10 am - 4 pm. Webster Hall, Westmount Park United Church. 4695 boul de Maisonneuve Ouest, Westmount. Sponsored by the lawn chair soir�e & the Quebec Writers� Federation.
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| February 5 2014 |
| Kara Stanley's memoir, Fallen, will be published by Greystone Books.
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| January 30 2014 |
| The Knowledge Network spoke to artists and authors about the concept of home. WP Kinsella was interviewed for the series. See the short version here.
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| November 25 2013 |
| WP Kinsella speaks to Charity Nebbe at Iowa Public Radio about Shoeless Joe, as part of their famous fictional Iowans programs. Listen to the radio show here.
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| October 25 2013 |
| More excellent reviews for Audacious by Gabrielle Prendergast. Quill & Quire and Kirkus Reviews. More here.
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| October 15 2013 |
| Kelli Deeth's The Other Side of Youth was reviewed in Quill & Quire.
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| September 25 2013 |
| Gabrielle Prendergast received a fantastic review for her novel in verse, Audacious in Publishers Weekly.
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| September 20 2013 |
| Read The Bluebird Cafe, a brand new story written by WP Kinsella and available for free on the author's website.
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| September 17 2013 |
| Genni Gunn's newest book is Tracks: Journeys in Time and Place. Tracks is a compilation of personal travel essays that range across three continents, from Italy, where Genni Gunn was born and spent her early years, to Canada, the US and Mexico, and through Asia, where she has travelled many times, both reconnecting with her sister and witnessing the emergence of new political realities in Myanmar. This is no mere travelogue, however; the journeys into the new and unknown also trigger the inner journey to the realm of memory. It is available for pre-order now. Find out more.
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| September 10 2013 |
| ECW will publish Frances Backhouse's book Beaver!: Rediscovering North America's Most Remarkable Rodent in Spring (June) 2015.
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| August 23 2013 |
| A biography of WP Kinsella by Willie Steele is currently in the works. Read more. |
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| June 6 2013 |
| The agency has a new phone number: 604-503-3895. We DO NOT accept queries from authors by phone. |
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| May 14 2013 |
| Chris F Westbury's novel, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, is the story of two charming and germ-phobic obsessive compulsives on a road trip to Philadelphia to pick up a working sculptural copy of an ancient chocolate grinder based on one of Marcel Duchamp's paintings and with the hope that they will overcome their obsessions and re-enter the real world, with all its germs, imperfections and wonder. It has been sold to Counterpoint Press for publication in 2014 (World rights). |
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| May 2 2013 |
| Leon Berger's Kennedy thriller trilogy has been sold to Premier for 2013 publication. |
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| April 15 2013 |
| Publishers Weekly has reviewed Tyler Trafford's, Almost a Great Escape. Complete press kit is here. |
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