- Laura Dosky at Penguin Canada has acquired World rights to Dr. Erin Boynton and Eric Wong’s book THE INJURY GUIDE, from Michael Levine at Westwood Creative Artists. The book offers readers the basic science needed to understand their bodily injuries, and practical advice to treat those injuries and maintain their activity as they age, for publication in Spring 2025.
- Nick Garrison from Penguin Canada has acquired world rights to Shefa Siegel’s THE ORIGIN OF AVARICE: A JOURNEY OF GREED, GOLD, AND LOVE IN A TIME OF SCARCITY from Michael Levine at Westwood Creative Artists. The book, an erudite, humorous, and even romantic journey, finds the origins of our modern environmental crisis in the co-evolution of mining and greed. Through an entertaining mix of travel and memoir, Shefa Siegel traces a three-thousand year story of mining and greed that has resulted in one of humanity’s great crises, the scarcity of essential minerals. The book is due for publication in Spring 2024.
- Greystone Books has acquired world rights to award-winning writer and poet Jordan Scott’s I STUTTER, I LIE. The provisionally titled nonfiction book is described as combining creative nonfiction, autobiography, poetry, and critical inquiry to make connections among stuttering, power, and the perception of truth and lies. Publication is expected for fall 2024. The deal was arranged by Hilary McMahon at Westwood Creative Artists.
And the following foreign rights deals:
- Don Thompson’s ORANGE BALLOON DOG renewed to Atticus-Azbooka (Russia), by Synopsis Agency, on behalf of Meg Wheeler at Westwood Creative Artists for John Pearce.
- John Ralston Saul’s THE UNCONSCIOUS CIVILIZATION renewed to Shanghai Sanhui Culture and Press Ltd. (China), by Claire Cai at Big Apple China, on behalf of Meg Wheeler at Westwood Creative Artists for Michael Levine.
- Yann Martel’s LIFE OF PI renewed to Crown Publishing (Taiwan), by Whitney Hsu at Andrew Nurnberg Taiwan, on behalf of Meg Wheeler at Westwood Creative Artists for Jackie Kaiser.
- Yann Martel’s LIFE OF PI to Mazmundama (Kazakhstan), by Tatjana Zoldnere at ANA Baltic, on behalf of Meg Wheeler at Westwood Creative Artists for Jackie Kaiser.
- Michael Ignatieff’s ISAIAH BERLIN renewed to Yilin Press (China), by Conor Cheng and Jackie Huang at ANA Beijing, on behalf of Meg Wheeler at Westwood Creative Artists for Michael Levine.
- Josef Skvorecky’s THE MIRACLE GAME renewed to Gallimard (France), by Marie-France Heinic at Anna Jarota Agency, on behalf of Meg Wheeler at Westwood Creative Artists.