WCA Deal Report for September 27, 2024
- Lara Hinchberger at Penguin Canada has bought English Canadian rights to author of DEAR EVELYN Kathy Page’s GETTING BETTER AT BEING WORSE: DISPATCHES FROM THAT OTHER PLACE, a heart-rending but uplifting memoir in which the novelist battles and ultimately has to come to terms with Parkinson’s Disease, to be published in Fall 2025. The deal was arranged by John Pearce at Westwood Creative Artists.
- Author of the multi-award-winning early chapter book series THE NGUYEN KIDS Linda Trinh’s THE LEGENDARY ALLIES, a four-book, contemporary fantasy chapter book series that follows a team of adventuresome kids and their ally animals—inspired by Vietnamese mythical creatures (Phoenix, Lan, Turtle, and Dragon)—who are chosen to complete quests to further social justice in the magical land of Van Lang and must learn to work together, illustrated by Quynh Anh Nguyen, to Katie Hearn at Annick Press, in an exclusive submission, for publication Winter 2026, by Bridgette Kam at Westwood Creative Artists for the author (world).
