WCA Deal Report for May 16, 2025

By Westwood Creative ArtistsMay 16, 2025Deals

Pegasus Books’ Claiborne Hancock has acquired US rights, The Westbourne Press’s Lynn Gaspard has acquiredUK& Commonwealth rights (ex. Canada and Oceania) and Europe and Middle East, and Random House Australia’s Meredith Curnow has acquired Oceania rights to Louise K. Blight’s WHERE THE EARTH MEETS THE SKY: A STUDY OF PENGUINS, PEOPLE AND PLACE IN ANTARCTICA. The deals were arranged by Jackie Kaiser and Meg Wheeler at Westwood Creative Artists. Canadian English rights were also sold to Doubleday/Bond Street Books’s Janie Yoon.

Westwood Creative Artists

Westwood Creative Artists is one of Canada’s oldest and most respected literary agencies. We take enormous pride in our superbly talented roster of clients, and in the phenomenal recognition their work receives from publishers, critics, and award juries in North America and throughout the world. Working out of the historic Chelsea Shop, in Toronto’s Huron-Sussex neighbourhood, our staff of fourteen includes eight literary agents who are supported by a dedicated administrative and bookkeeping staff, in-house international rights and film/TV and multimedia rights teams, and an outstanding network of twenty-five international co-agencies. We take great pride in the enthusiastic response to our list from publishers around the world and in the wide praise our writers receive from Canadian and international critics. We are honoured that many of the writers we represent have won and been shortlisted for such esteemed prizes as the Booker Prize, the Nobel Prize, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

WCA Deal Report for May 16, 2025

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