WCA Deal Report for June 26, 2026
- Author of WOLF, MOON, DOG Thomas Wharton’s THE BIRDS THEY SING AT BREAK OF DAY, a literary epistolary novel in which a chance encounter between a young Canadian ecologist and an aspiring American journalist in Iceland in 1974 sparks a decades-long correspondence that sustains them through love, loss, ambition, and heartbreak, their letters becoming a lifeline across years and continents until a devastating tragedy forces them to confront whether words from a distance are enough, to Catherine Abes at Random House Canada, in a nice deal, for publication in fall 2027, by Chris Casuccio at Westwood Creative Artists.
- Dr. Jamaica Cass’s RETURN IS A RESPONSIBILITY: A MOHAWK PHYSICIAN ON REFUSAL, LEADERSHIP, AND BUILDING WHAT COMES NEXT, in which the first Indigenous woman in Canada to earn both an MD and PhD journeys from a childhood the system believed it could predict to a career spent transforming the institutions that shaped her life; drawing on Haudenosaunee teachings to challenge conventional ideas of success, leadership, and reconciliation, arguing that systems produce what they are designed to produce, and the real work lies not in overcoming them, to Stephanie Sinclair at McClelland & Stewart, in a nice deal, for publication in spring 2028, by Chris Casuccio at Westwood Creative Artists (Canada).
- Author of THE VERY, VERY FAR NORTH Dan Bar-el’s AN EVEN FARTHER VERY, VERY FAR NORTH, about change, as a polar bear and his arctic friends learn to navigate shifting friendships and evolving identities, illustrated by Kelly Pousette, to Reka Simonsen at Atheneum, in an exclusive submission, for publication in spring 2027, by Hilary McMahon at Westwood Creative Artists for the author (world).
