WCA Deal Report for March 28, 2025
- Emily Feinberg at Roaring Brook Press has acquired, at auction, MY BUFFALO DREAM, the debut picture book from Métis-Cree poet, actor and theatre creator PJ Prudat, in which a child’s nighttime imaginings lead to a joyful road trip with a buffalo-speaking grandpa at the wheel and an ice-cream loving buffalo in the back, celebrating imagination and wonder and families of all kinds. Aly McKnight will illustrate. Publication is slated for spring 2027. Hilary McMahon at Westwood Creative Artists represented the author and the illustrator represented herself in the deal for world rights.
- Stephanie Smith at HarperOne has acquired world rights to author of MOTHER TERESA: A SIMPLE PATH and pilgrimage guide Lucinda M. Vardey‘s THE GREEN SOUL: DISCOVERING GOD IN NATURE, an exploration of our modern exile from sacred belonging with the earth and a new vision for rewilded spirituality through the grand inheritance of the great outdoors. Hilary McMahon at Westwood Creative Artists represented Vardey in the deal.
- Ken Whyte from Sutherland House has acquired world rights to James King’s biography of the renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky’s stunning images of fractured landscapes have established his reputation as one of the greatest photographers of our time, and this biography tells readers not only of his adventures around the globe, but the deeply personal story of how he came into being as an artist, by Michael Levine at Westwood Creative Artists for publication in Spring 2026.
