• 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).

• Author of SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD & THE APOCALYPTIC YEAR 1885 Patrice Dutil’s THE WHITE PLUME: THE AUDACIOUS LIFE OF WILFRID LAURIER, an accounting of the life and times of Canada’s seventh—and first Francophone—prime minister, to Doug Pepper and David Moscrop at Signal Books, in a nice deal, for publication in fall 2029, by John Pearce at Westwood Creative Artists (world, excl. French).

• Elliott Gish’s RUBY AND JUDE, a historical speculative novel set largely in an underground 1960s lesbian bar, to Jen Sookfong Lee at ECW Press, in a nice deal, for publication in May 2028, by Geffen Semach at Westwood Creative Artists (world).

Foreign rights:

• Annabel Lyon’s THE GOLDEN MEAN, to Julia Eisele at Eisele (Germany), in a pre-empt, by Hannah Nuspliger-Fosh and Marc Koralnik at The Liepman Agency; to Lydia Salerno at Rizzoli (Italy), by Elisa Beretta at The Italian Agency; on behalf of Meg Wheeler at Westwood Creative Artists, for Jackie Kaiser.

Foreign rights:

• Tomson Highway’s KISS OF THE FUR QUEEN, to Kistikan Pictures, by Jake Babad at Westwood Creative Artists, on behalf of Jackie Kaiser (world).

• Linda Bailey’s THE EASTER WOLF, about a (vegetarian!) wolf who desperately wants to be an Easter Bunny, illustrated by Brandon James Scott, to Tara Walker at Tundra Books, for publication in spring 2027, by Hilary McMahon at Westwood Creative Artists for the author, and by Emily van Beek at Folio Jr. for the illustrator (world).

Film rights:

• Susan Juby’s HOME TO WOEFIELD, to Sarah Wayne Callies, by Jake Babad at Westwood Creative Artists, on behalf of Hilary McMahon (world).

Foreign rights:

• Patricia Finn’s THE GOLDEN BOY, to Family Leisure Club (Ukraine), by Tatjana Zoldnere at Eastern European and Asian Rights Agency, on behalf of Meg Wheeler at Westwood Creative Artists, for Hilary McMahon.

• Laura R. Fisher’s GIRL ON THE LINE: A STORY OF SEX, VICE, AND THE LOST MEMOIR THAT HELPED SHAPE MODERN AMERICA, a work of literary and social history set at the turn of the 20th century, following four female firebrands as they navigate San Francisco’s notorious vice district, centered on a young sex worker endeavoring to write her tell-all memoir, only for the pages to become a flashpoint in America’s early struggle over sexuality, censorship, feminism, and labor before vanishing for more than a century, to Zach Phillips at Pantheon, in a very nice deal, for publication in fall 2029, by Chris Casuccio at Westwood Creative Artists (US). Rights also to Haley Cullingham at McClelland & Stewart (Canada), in a two-book deal.

• Jordan Scott and Jamal Saeed’s LITTLE STONES, in which a child whose mother keeps him from floating away by filling his pockets with stones is carried off by the wind and must find his way back home, illustrated by Jasu Hu, to Lee Wade at Random House Studio, for publication in summer 2028, by Hilary McMahon and Chris Casuccio at Westwood Creative Artists for the author, and by Marlena Torzecka and Elisa Leung at Marlena Agency for the illustrator (world).

• Ann Eriksson’s WHERE THE GLACIER MEETS THE SKY, which explores climate change through Icelandic folklore to expose how interconnected we are globally, to Meghan Macdonald at Dundurn Press, in a nice deal, for publication in summer 2027, by John Pearce at Westwood Creative Artists (NA English and French).

Foreign rights:

• Annabel Lyon’s THE GOLDEN MEAN, to Open Books (Hungary), by Esther Szasz at Katai & Bolza, on behalf of Meg Wheeler at Westwood Creative Artists, for Jackie Kaiser.

• Yann Martel’s SON OF NOBODY, to Mondial (Sweden), by Sam Jongejan at Marianne Schoenbach Literary Agency; also to Phanbooks (Vietnam), by Santo Manurung at Maxima Creative Agency; and to Gutkind, by Hannah Nuspliger-Fosh at The Liepman Agency; on behalf of Meg Wheeler at Westwood Creative Artists, for Jackie Kaiser.

Foreign rights:

• Dr. Marc Lewis’s THE BIOLOGY OF DESIRE, to Citadel Grupo (Brazil), by Roberto Matos at Riff Agency, on behalf of Meg Wheeler at Westwood Creative Artists, for Michael Levine.

• Glenn Dixon’s THE INFINITE SADNESS OF SMALL APPLIANCES, to Elysande (France), by Megan Husain at Anna Jarota Agency, on behalf of Meg Wheeler at Westwood Creative Artists, for Hilary McMahon.

• Annabel Lyon’s THE GOLDEN MEAN, to Vivat (Ukraine), by Tatjana Zoldnere at Eastern European and Asian Rights Agency, on behalf of Meg Wheeler at Westwood Creative Artists, for Jackie Kaiser.

• Nan Forler’s THE MANY WORDS OF NELLE AND TRU, a biography about the childhood friendship between authors Harper Lee and Truman Capote and how their shared love of words and storytelling shaped their paths as writers, illustrated by Martina Stuhlberger, to Lee Wade at Random House Studio, for publication in spring 2028, by Hilary McMahon at Westwood Creative Artists for the author, and by Anne Moore Armstrong at The Bright Agency for the illustrator (world).

• Author of THE NORTH STAR Julian Sher’s WHEN SHALL THEIR GLORY FADE: A DARING COMMANDO RAID, HITLER’S FURY AND NAZI CRIMES OF WAR, about a 1942 commando attack on a power plant in Norway, led by a Canadian soldier, and its grim aftermath, to Rick Meier at Knopf Canada, in a nice deal, for publication in fall 2029, by John Pearce at Westwood Creative Artists.