Fall 2007

Congratulations to Linwood Barclay, whose stand-alone thriller No Time for Goodbye is a top three bestseller in Germany and has sold upwards of 300,000 copies. The book will be released in North America September 25th. Linwood's next novel Too Close To Home will be published next year. North American rights on the next three novels have been sold to Bantam US. UK and Commonwealth rights exclusive Canada have gone to Orion Books.

Spring 2007

Korean rights on Linwood Barclay's No Time For Goodbye have been sold to
Eyulyoo. The stand-alone thriller comes out in the Fall in the US, UK and
Canada.

Italian rights for Craig Davidson's The Fighter have been sold to Edizioni BD.

Congratulations to Giles Blunt whose novel By The Time You Read This (known
in the UN as The Fields Of Grief) has been shortlisted for the Duncan Lawrie
Dagger Award--formerly known as The Golden Dagger--one of the most
prestigious crime and thriller awards in the world.

Congratulations to Kelley Armstong, whose most recent Women of the
Otherworld novel No Humans Involved is a New York Times bestseller.

Congratulations to Khaled Hosseini (represented in Canada on behalf of The
Elaine Koster Literary Agency), whose second novel A Thousand Splendid Suns
hit the Globe and Mail bestseller list at #1 within 1 week of release.

Howard Shrier's debut thriller Buffalo Jump has been sold to Random House of
Canada for publication Spring 2008. His second in the series - High Chicago - is part of this two-book deal.

Ami McKay's breakout bestseller The Birth House has now been optioned for
film by Nova Scotia producer Camelia Frieberg's Palpable Productions.

Jill Murray's debut YA novel Break On Through was sold to Random House Canada for publication in early Spring, 2008. It is the first of a two-book deal.

Fall 2006

Ariana Franklin's Mistress of the Art of Death will be published by Putnam in the United States and Penguin in Canada on February 6th 2007.  Transworld will publish in the UK May '07.  This book, described as 'Kathy Reichs in the 12th Century' was the subject of heated auctions everywhere.  International sales include Germany, Holland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Brazil.

Ariana's first novel, City of Shadows, was a Booksense pick in Fall 2006.

Canadian rights on Sherri Vanderveen's first novel BelleFalls to Barbara Berson of Penguin Books of Canada

Spring 2006

Congratulations to Miriam Shuchman, whose bestseller The Drug Trial: Nancy Olivieri and the Science Scandal that Rocked the Hospital for Sick Children won the Writers’ Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing in Ottawa! (May 2006)

Congratulations to Ami McKay, whose book The Birth House has reached #1 on all Canadian lists and is the best-selling book in Canada!

US rights on Ariana Franklin’s next book The Mistress of the Art of Death which has been hailed as ‘Kathy Reichs in the 12th Century’ were sold to Putnam after a heated auction.

Winter 2005

Ariana Franklin’s second book, The Mistress of the Art of Death, described as “Kathy Reichs in the 12th Century”, was a sensation at the 2005 Frankfurt Book Fair where multiple territories were sold. UK rights on this and the next book were pre-empted by Francesca Liversidge at Transworld Publishing, which set off bidding wars all over Europe.

Droemer (German), Piemme (Italian), Unieboek (Dutch), Suma de Letras (Spanish), Rocco (Brazilian), Damm (Swedish), Damm (Norwegian), Aschehoug (Danish), AST (Russia)

Other sales pending.

Fall 2005

US rights on Giles Blunt’s next Cardinal novel By The Time You Read This plus a stand alone novel to Henry Holt and Co.

Ami McKay’s The Birth House has been the subject of pre-empts on both sides of the Atlantic, as 4th Estate acquired UK rights, and William Morrow acquired US rights on this wonderful first novel that will be feature in Knopf Canada’s New Face of Fiction program next spring. Uitg. Luitingh-Sijthoff BV will publish in Holland, and Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag GmbH in Germany.

Canadian rights on John Chipman’s narrative non-fiction The Obsession, about a Toronto steamfitter and his ill-fated attempt to copy his sailor grandfather’s achievements by sailing across the North Atlantic, have been sold to Penguin Books of Canada.

Spring 2005

Giles Blunt has signed a three-book deal with Random House of Canada which will include books 5 and 6 in the John Cardinal series set in Algonquin Bay Ontario, as well as a one-off crime novel set in New York. US rights on By The time You Read This—which is Book 4 in the Cardinal series—as well as the New York novel, have been sold to Jennifer Barth at Henry Holt, with St Martin’s handling paperback rights.

French book club rights for Linda Holeman’s The Linnet Bird were sold to France Loisirs.

Winter 2005

UK rights to Craig Davidson’s Rust and Bone and In the Pit were sold to Picador.

German rights to Linda Holeman’s second novel, The Moonlit Cage, were sold to Bertelsmann

Joanna Manning has been commissioned by Raincoast Books to write a sequel to her book Is the Pope Catholic?. Magdalene Christianity, an examination of the future of Christianity, is scheduled for publication in 2006 as a lead title on the Raincoast non-fiction list.

Nelofer Pazira’s memoir A Bed of Red Flowers was sold to Martha Levin at Free Press (US rights).

Judy Allen has completed the fifth book in her Event Planning series for John Wiley & Sons. Time Management for Event Planners will be published in May 2005. Sourcebooks Inc. of Naperville, Illinois has recently commissioned a second wedding planner from Judy entitled Engaged to Married in Three Months or Less for publication in 2006. Judy's first wedding planner for Sourcebooks, Your Stress-Free Wedding Planner has been selected as the only wedding planner to be sold in Target stores cross the US and named one of the best wedding books of 2005 by Chandra Orr of Copley News.

Bill Casselman is writing As The Canoe Sinks: Comic Scenes From Canadian Life for publication by McArthur and Company in June 2005.

Fall 2004

Ami McKay’s novel The Birth House was sold to Knopf Canada.

Congratulations to Giles Blunt, whose book The Delicate Storm was longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC award.

Another two-book US deal for Linwood Barclay from Bantam Press US

Multi-book deals for Kelley Armstong. The Women of the Otherworld series is no under contract in all English-language territories through Book 9. She has also sold her mainstream thriller No Humans Involved plus another book in this series to Bantam US, Time Warner UK and Random House Canada. Russian rights to Dime Store Magic and Industrial Magic have been sold to AST.

Black Fly Season by Giles Blunt was sold to Tropea in Italy after a hotly-contested auction.

Congratulations to Trevor Cole whose book Norman Bray in the Performance of his Life was shortlisted for the 2004 Governor General’s Award.

Linda Holeman’s book The Linnet Bird was sold to Bertelsmann Group Poland

Craig Davidson’s collection of short stories 28 Bones and upcoming novel In The Pit were sold to Norton US and Albin Michel in France

Congratulations to Giles Blunt for being nominated for three prizes in the Bouchercon. The Macavity Award for Best Mystery/Thriller of 2004, the Hammett Award, and the Anthony Award.

Spring 2004

US rights were sold to Bantam Spectra for a three book deal, continuing the Women of The Underworld series by Kelley Armstrong.

German rights to Linda Holeman's The Linnet Bird were sold to Bertelsmann Group. French rights were sold in auction to Plon.

Congratulations to Giles Blunt for being nominated for the Macavity
Awards by the members of Mystery Readers International - the largest mystery reader/fan organization in the world.

Jack London meets Fight Club in Craig Davidson's as yet untitled debut collection of short fiction. World rights were sold to Penguin Canada.

Congratulations go to Giles Blunt for winning the Crime Writers' Association of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel of 2003. (The Delicate Storm)

US rights for Linda Holeman's novel The Linnet Bird were sold to Crown Publishers; Dutch rights were sold to Unieboek.

Christy Ann Conlin's second novel, tentatively titled Watermarks, a story of myth and mystery set in the fictional fishing village Lupin Cove off the Bay of Fundy shore in Nova Scotia, was sold to Doubleday Canada.

Sourcebooks, Inc. of Naperville, Illinois has commissioned Toronto event planner and author, Judy Allen, to write Your Stress Free Wedding Planner, 10 Effortless Steps to Your Dream Wedding for publication in September 2004.

Congratulations to Giles Blunt for being nominated for the 2004 Hammett Award for a work of literary excellence in the field of crime writing by a US or Canadian author.

Rights to Giles Blunt's thriller, The Delicate Storm were recently sold to De Bookerij, Holland; Marco Tropea Editore, Italy; Editions Jean-Claude Lattes, France.
(Rights handled by the Paul Marsh Agency, UK)

Kelley Armstrong's novel Bitten was recently sold to Fuso, Japan.
(Rights handled by the Paul Marsh Agency, UK)

Canadian rights for Clare Morrall's debut novel, Astonishing Splashes of Colour, shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Award were sold to Ellen Seligman at McClellend & Stewart on behalf of Tindal Street Press in the UK. A second book by Morrall for McClelland & Stewart was also negotiated on behalf of the Paul Marsh Agency, UK. (exclusive to Canada).