WCA Deal Report for June 21, 2024

By Westwood Creative ArtistsJune 21, 2024Deals

Matt Joudrey from At Bay Press has acquired World rights to Peter Newman’s memoir, an award-winning physician and writer. This collection of compassionate, non-fiction stories set around the world from Canada to the Caribbean and Golan Heights, and from the Arctic to Africa, in both peacetime and war, provides a window into the privileged, intimate world of the doctor-patient relationship, for publication in Spring 2026, by Michael Levine at Westwood Creative Artists.
Ken Sutherland from Sutherland House has acquired World rights to Drs. Jean and Alastair Carruthers’ memoir, about the love and life partnership of two medical doctors, initially thought crazy for even considering botulinum toxin as a therapy, and then adulated and revered for their courage and contribution to the medical and cosmetic lexicon, for publication in Spring 2026, by Michael Levine at Westwood Creative Artists.

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 June 21, 2024

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