- Ben Kaplan‘s CATCH A FIRE: THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF THE LEGALIZATION OF CANADIAN WEED, following Bruce Linton, the founder of Canopy Growth, to tell the biggest Canadian business story in the past 30 years—the rise and billion-dollar fall of Canadian weed in the post-COVID-19 global marijuana economy, to Kwame Scott Fraser at Dundurn Press, with Julia Kim editing, for publication in winter 2025, by Michael Levine at Westwood Creative Artists (world). Rights: rights@dundurn.com
- Trinity College Dublin Masters in Creative Writing graduate Virginia Evans‘s THE CORRESPONDENT, pitched as A MAN CALLED OVE meets 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD, an epistolary novel about a woman in the winter of her life trying to make reparations and sense of the world in the only way she knows how, through correspondence, to Amy Einhorn at Crown, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, for publication in Winter 2025, by Hilary McMahon at Westwood Creative Artists (world).
- Craig Pyette at Random House Canada has bought English Canadian rights to Dennis Molinaro’s SHADOWS OF THE DRAGON: CHINA’S SECRET OPERATIONS IN CANADA, a definitive account of Chinese interference over forty years. The deal was arranged by John Pearce at Westwood Creative Artists.
- Sarah Howden at Orca Book Publishers has acquired CALL ME AL, a middle grade novel written by Wali Shah and Eric Walters, in which eighth-grade student Ali Khan finds that writing poetry—first about his crush, then about what it means to be an immigrant and the anti-Muslim racism around him—helps him discover who he truly is, for publication in March 2024. Hilary McMahon at Westwood Creative Artists represented Shah, and Amy Tompkins at Transatlantic Agency represented Walters in the deal for world rights.
- Tantor Media has acquired world English audio rights to Elizabeth Ruth’s SEMI-DETACHED from Hilary McMahon at Westwood Creative Artists.
- Tantor Media has acquired world English audio rights to Buffy Cram’s ONCE UPON AN EFFING TIME from Hilary McMahon at Westwood Creative Artists.
- Author of THE MEASURE OF MY POWERS and the host of the advice podcast YOU & I Jackie Kai Ellis‘s TO YOU, WHO WONDERS, pitched as advice column meets memoir, with fans submitting questions anonymously that the author answers for the first time in these pages; paired with each question, going deeper into her personal life with memoir-style vignettes on everything from becoming a mom in her forties, to getting back together with her ex-fiance, to the ever-evolving healing after divorce, to the reinvention of her identity, to Bhavna Chauhan at Doubleday Canada in an exclusive submission by Sara Harowitz at Westwood Creative Artists.
- Kyo Maclear’s UNEARTHING to Barambooks (Korea), by Tae Eun Kim at Shinwon, on behalf of Meg Wheeler at Westwood Creative Artists for Jackie Kaiser.
- Rohinton Mistry’s A FINE BALANCE to Book Club Publications (Arabic), by Meg Wheeler at Westwood Creative Artists for Bruce Westwood.
- Buffy Cram’s ONCE UPON AN EFFING TIME to NN Editore (Italy), edited by Eugenia Dubini, by Elisa Beretta at The Italian Literary Agency, on behalf of Meg Wheeler at Westwood Creative Artists for Hilary McMahon.
- Shohini Ghose’s HER SPACE, HER TIME to YoungJin (Korea), by Tae Eun Kim at Shinwon Agency, on behalf of Meg Wheeler at Westwood Creative Artists for John Pearce.
- Elizabeth Hay’s SNOW ROAD STATION to Mountain Leopard Press (UK), edited by Elena Torres, by Meg Wheeler at Westwood Creative Artists for Jackie Kaiser.
- House of Anansi Press’ Shirarose Wilensky has acquired World rights to Su Chang‘s THE TROUBLE WITH LEAVING. The debut novel is described as a generational story spanning from the Cultural Revolution to the start of Xi’s presidency in which a young immigrant is haunted by her painful Shanghai upbringing and must confront both her nationalist Chinese suitor and the dark past of her mother – a West-obsessed former Red Guard who leads a life of deception as a state journalist; pitched for readers of Celeste Ng, Madeleine Thien, Min Jin Lee, and Ayad Akhtar. Publication is expected for winter 2025. The deal was arranged by Chris Casuccio of Westwood Creative Artists.
- Harbour Publishing has acquired North American rights to Sam Wiebe‘s OCEAN DRIVE. The book is described as a Pacific Northwest crime thriller, in which ex-convict Cameron Shaw infiltrates a cross-border crime syndicate, while the murder-by-arson of a young student leads small-town detective Meghan Quick to investigate the same organization; the pair soon find themselves unlikely allies against a sinister conspiracy reaching from the streets to the upper echelons of society. Publication is expected for spring 2024. The deal was arranged by Chris Casuccio of Westwood Creative Artists.
- Debut author Alison McGauley‘s KENZIE’S LITTLE TREE, in which a child and her family plant a beautiful tree together, and as the seasons change and the child cares for the tree, she learns to deal with the challenges that life brings and how to adjust her expectations, illustrated by Emilie Leduc, to Sarah Howden at Orca Books, by Emmy Nordstrom Higdon at Westwood Creative Artists.
- Canadian publishing house At Bay Press has purchased the world rights to a critical new title, HUNTING HISTORY: A WRITER’S ODYSSEY, by award-winning Canadian author, Erna Paris. The book presents the remarkable story of her lifelong quest to understand how people and societies cope with trauma. It blends her own vivid personal experiences with fascinating historical and political stories that reveal the best and worst of what makes us human. It begins by recounting a pivotal moment in the author’s life on November 11th, 1960 when she came across a Nazi death camp hidden in the forests of the Vosges Mountains in France. This happenstance encounter would psychologically and culturally shape the rest of her life. Agent Michael Levine from Westwood Creative Artists arranged the deal with At Bay Press, who plans a May 2024 release date for the book.
