WCA Deal Report for November 1, 2024

By November 1, 2024Deals
  • Nick Garrison from Penguin Canada has acquired world rights to Marc Lewis’ THE VOICES IN OUR HEADS from Michael Levine at Westwood Creative Artists. The book relates case histories and vignettes showing that many clients in psychotherapy, as well as individuals pursuing self-help, find their inner worlds populated by a variety of part-selves, sometimes heard as internal voices, critics or cravings, that have been highlighted by new psychotherapies such as Internal Family Systems. The book provides a scientific look at how these part-selves emerge and stabilize in our lives, how they communicate with each other, and how improving their communication serves our pursuit of happiness and self-fulfillment, due for publication in the fall of 2026.
  • Patricia Ocampo at Kids Can Press has acquired world rights to Louise Bradford’s SAGE AND THE SHOWSHOE EXPRESS, a celebration of the important, and sometimes treacherous, work of 19th-century Indigenous mail carriers, in which a young Ojibwe girl follows her father, who delivers mail by snowshoe, as they try to outrace a dangerous snowstorm. It will publish in fall 2026, with art by Maya McKibbin, a two-spirited Ojibwe and Irish-settler animator and illustrator. Hilary McMahon at Westwood Creative Artists represented Bradford, a member of Batchewana First Nation, whose great-great grandfather was a snowshoe mail carrier.

Foreign rights:

  • John Glusman at Norton in the US, Michael Heyward at Text in Australia, Prometheus in the Netherlands via Marianne Schoenbach Agency, Presença in Portugal via Sandra Bruna Agency, XYZ for French in North America, and Polirom in Romania via Simona Kessler Agency have acquired SON OF NOBODY by Yann Martel. Canadian rights previously sold to Knopf and UK rights to Canongate. Rights sold by Jackie Kaiser and Meg Wheeler at Westwood Creative Artists.