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PRE-2008 PROJECTS
Dominic
Ali
· Todd
Babiak
· Alex
Brett
· Tanya
Chapman
· Yvonne
Collins and Sandy
Rideout
· Estate of Sonia Craddock
· Dede
Crane
· Wilfred
Cude
· Kelli
Deeth
· Norma
Dixon
· Pam
Freir
· Steven
Galloway
· Bill
Gaston
· Katherine
Gibson
· Leona
Gom
· Andrew
Gray
· Paul
& Audrey Grescoe
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Taras
Grescoe
· Mike
Harcourt
· Ann
Ireland
· Barbara
Lambert
· Olive
Skene Johnson
· Helen
McLean
· Maria
Coletta McLean
· Teresa
McWhirter
· James
McWilliams & R. James
Steel
· Marg
Meikle
· Noreen
Olson
· Brett Alexander Savory
· Stanley
Semrau
· Barry
Shell
· Richard
Van Camp
· Patricia
Van Tighem
Click here for 2008 and future projects
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Dominic
Ali www.domali.com
frequently writes about pop culture for U.S. and
Canadian media. He has worked for TIME magazine's
Canadian edition, and the CBC Radio programs As
it Happens and Definitely Not the Opera.
Dom's radio documentaries have been broadcast on
Outfront, The Sunday Edition, and Studio
360. He is currently writing a memoir about his
first newspaper job in the Caribbean. He lives in
Vancouver, Canada.
MEDIA
MADNESS: An insider's Guide to Media
illustrated by Michael Cho
Rights
sold: Canada, KidsCan Press, 2005
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Todd
Babiak is an entertainment writer and columnist
for the Edmonton Journal. He graduated from
Montreal's Concordia University MFA program in
creative writing in 1999.
CHOKE
HOLD (237 pp) is a coming-of-age first novel
which explores the relationship between masculinity
and ritualized violence. It was nominated for the
Rogers Writers' Trust Prize for Fiction and was the
winner of the Alberta Best First Novel
Award.
Rights
sold: Canada, Turnstone Press,
2000;
Optioned
for film by Velocity Films and Jump
Communications
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Alex
Brett alexbrett.ca
is a science writer who did field work in fisheries
and lab work prior to spending a decade at the
National Research Council. Her first two Morgan
O'Brien Castle Street Mysteries are published in
Canada by the Dundurn Group.
DEAD
WATER CREEK (360 pp) Morgan is sent west to
look into misappropriation of fisheries, research
funds, and uncovers an illicit plan to manipulate
the lucrative sockeye salmon run.
Canada,
Dundurn Group - A Castle Street Mystery,
2003
COLD
DARK MATTER a Canadian astronomer is found
hanging from the secondary mirror of one of the
world's most prestigious international telescopes,
on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. This book will accurately
reflect the tight relationship between academic
astronomy and the military, particularly with
respect to France and the US.
Canada,
Dundurn Group - A Castle Street Mystery,
2005
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Tanya
Chapman is a graduate of the UBC creative
writing program. Her short story, "Spring the
Chick," won This Magazine's Great Canadian
Literary Hunt. She has had two short films produced
and her new manuscript, The Welcoming Place,
has been supported by the Ontario Arts Council.
Tanya has a history of being a bit of a rock chick
but continues to fail miserably at
karaoke.
KING
is a coming of age story about recreating your
life—one small and honest piece at a time.
There's only one thing to do with a picture perfect
existence in the suburbs and that's to exchange it
for a trailer park, a collection of lawn
sprinklers, a liquid eyeliner addiction, and a
whole lot of burn baby burn passion.
Rights
sold: Coach House Books, Canada, fall 2006. All
other rights available.
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Yvonne
Collins (speech writer) & Sandy
Rideout (film industry technician) www.collinsrideout.com
have been friends since they were teen-agers.
TOTALLY
ME: The Teenage Girls Survival Guide (230 pp)
is a lively and witty discussion of friendships,
boyfriends, hormones, gossip, dating, lying,
parents, stepparents, school, drugs and
alcohol.
Rights
sold: USA, Adams Media, 2000; Spain, Amat,
2001
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estate
of Sonia Craddock (1941-1997)
Sonia
was a vibrant and prolific author of children's
literature and a dynamic activist for literacy. She
earned a doctorate in education while raising three
children. Sonia's published books include: THE
SECRET OF THE CARDS, YOU CAN'T TAKE MICKY, THE
TREASURE HUNT, and TV WARS AND
ME.
HAL,
THE THIRD CLASS HERO is a very funny novel
about a hero trainee who can't quite make the
grade. HarperCollins Canada sold 5,000
copies.
Rights
have reverted.
ROSEMARY
FOR REMEMBRANCE (132 pp) When Rosy's
grandmother keeps vanishing she enlists the help of
her unusual family members to solve the puzzle in
this funny and off-beat mystery. This middle-grade
novel is a popular resource guide for Alzheimer's
families.
Rights
sold: Canada, James Lorimer & Company,
1996, Republished Streetlights, 2008
SLEEPING
BOY, a picture book, illustrated by Leonid Gore
(32 pp) A remarkable modern, allegorical re-telling
of the Sleeping Beauty tale, set against the
backdrop of the Berlin Wall.
Rights
sold: USA, Atheneum, a division of Simon &
Schuster, 1999
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Dede
Crane is a former ballerina who has recently
turned to writing. Several of her short stories
have been accepted for publication in literary
magazines.
SYMPATHY
a literary novel framed within Dr. Michael Myatt's
sympathy-based therapy. The book makes us
reconsider the relationship between mind and body
and just how permeable the boundaries between self
and other are as we follow a cast of broken
characters on their poignant, often humorous
journeys inside and outside the the Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder wing of Rosewood Clinic. As Michael
works to uncover the startling cause of patient and
former ballet dancer, Kerry Taylor's catatonia, he
will discover his own vulnerability and a family
secret long repressed. This sympathy he shares with
Kerry ultimately serves to put more than just his
job at risk.
Rights
sold: Canada, Raincoast, 2006
THE 25 PAINS OF KENNEDY BAINES is a teen novel, in which a Jane
Austen-loving high school girl and her friends
experience a summer of firsts in which everything
seems to be changing, including a Mom who smokes
dope to cope while Dad is away. A modern day
Pride and Prejudice.
Rights
sold: Canada, Polestar Books, 2006
Rights to both books will revert in 2008 due to discontinuation of Raincoast's publishing program.
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Wilfred
Cude www.phdtrap.com
wrote a monograph in 1987, recounting the problems
which he and many others endured in their quest to
complete graduate studies. The paper expanded and
became something of an underground success. Now he
has written a fully revised and updated
book
THE
PH.D. TRAP REVISITED (333 pp) is a
fascinating expose of university graduate schools'
savage exploitation and obstacles to intellectual
inquiry and careers.
Rights
sold: Canada, Dundurn Group, 2001
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Kelli
Deeth is a 1998 graduate of UBC's MFA program
in creative writing where she received a fellowship
and an award for her one-act play. Her short
fiction has been published in Dalhousie Review
and The Antigonish Review.
THE
GIRL WITHOUT ANYONE (166 pp) is a dazzling
debut collection of linked stories about Leah, the
girl without anyone, full of funny and poignant
insecurities, struggling to grow up in the
suburbs.
Right
sold: Canada, HarperCollins, 2001; Denmark,
Gylndenal, 2002
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Norma
Dixon has been writing for children for many
years, with articles in such publications as
Ranger Rick and books, including WALTER
THE PIGEON and JUST RIGHT FOR
CATS.
THE
LOWDOWN ON EARTHWORMS (2004), FLIES
(2005), SEASHELL SECRETS (2004)
Rights
sold: Canada, Fitzhenry & Whiteside
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Pam
Freir has been writing a weekly food column,
Pleasures of the Table, for seven
years.
LAUGHING
WITH MY MOUTH FULL: Tales from a Gulf Islands
Kitchen, a gently comic narrative of the
author's adventures eating and preparing food at
her gulf island home and while
travelling.
Rights
sold: HarperCollins Canada, 2005
Winner: Best Special Interest Food and Beverage Book, Canadian Culinary Book Awards
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Steven
Galloway www.stevengalloway.com
is a young rising star. A 1999 graduate of
UBC's MFA program, he has studied radio drama and
screenwriting. He is a sessional instructor in
creative writing.
ASCENSION
(279 pp) a dazzling international novel about the
world of a Romany high wire walker.
Rights
sold: Canada, Alfred A. Knopf, 2003; Radio,
serialization, CBC; Greece, Livanis; US, Carroll
& Graf (reverted); Poland, Bertelsman Swiat; Denmark,
Cicero (reverted); Italy, Edizionieo; Australia, Text Media;
Turkey, Kariyer Yayinlari, world Spanish rights to
El Aleneo (Argentina); UK, Atlantic; Munhakdongne Publishing, South Korea; Editora Rocco, Brazil.
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Bill
Gaston is a former hockey player and graduate
of UBC's MFA program. He teaches writing at the
University of Victoria. Bill is a past winner of
numerous awards, including the 2003 inaugural
Timothy Findley Lifetime Achievement Award. His
short stories have been widely published in
literary journals, including Granta. Bill's
published works of fiction include: TALL
LIVES, a novel; DEEP COVE STORIES, a
collection, as well as BELLA COMBE JOURNAL
and NORTH OF JESUS BEANS. His backlist has
recently been acquired by Raincoast
Books.
MIDNIGHT
HOCKEY, a satiric look at beer-league
hockey
Rights
sold: Canada, Doubleday Canada, fall
2006
THE
GOOD BODY an aging hockey player who failed to
make the major leagues goes home in a futile and
funny attempt to reconnect with the son he left
behind.
Rights
sold: Canada, Stoddart/Cormorant 2000, Raincoast
Books 2004; US, Regan Books 2001
SEX
IS RED an award winning collection, one of
which won the $10,000 CBC Prize for
Fiction.
Rights
Sold: Canada, Cormorant 1998
MT.
APPETITE a collection OF 12 stories (221 pp)
linked by the common theme of yearning and seeking
in "unpredictable and addictive fiction by a writer
of wit, skill and power." MT. APPETITE was
short-listed for the 2002 Giller Prize.
Rights
sold: Canada, Raincoast Books, 2002; French
language, Les Editions de la Pleine Lune,
2003
THE
CAMERAMAN (356 pp), is a new edition of a novel
first published in 1994, as one of the last books
of fiction from Macmillan. The plot revolves around
the on-camera death of an actress. This has
implications for her friends -- a director and a
cameraman.
Rights
sold: Canada, Raincoast Books, 2003; French
language, Les Editions de la Pleine Lune, 2003;
Poland, Wydawniczy
SOINTULA
is a quest novel in which a middle-aged woman
leaves her husband, who is a former Mormon
missionary and the mayor of their Ontario town. She
paddles up the west coast in a stolen kayak,
looking for her son.
Rights
sold: Canada, Raincoast Books, 2004. Optioned for film by Gumboot Productions.
Rights for all Raincoast titles will revert 2008.
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Katherine
Gibson's www.katherinegibson.com
articles have appeared in Reader's
Digest (U.S., Canada, and Australia),
Homemaker's Magazine, Toronto Star, Globe and
Mail, Northwest Palate, Seattle Times, Airlines,
Via, and Victoria Times Colonist. She
has also ghostwritten two privately commissioned
books. Formerly the owner of a public relations
business, Katherine is an experienced publicist,
public speaker, and seminar presenter.
UNCLUTTER
YOUR LIFE: Transforming Your Physical, Mental
and Emotional Space. UNCLUTTER YOUR LIFE
exposes the clutter we see -- a messy desk,
junk under the bed, stuff in closets or jammed in
the attic -- while expanding the notion of clutter
to include unseen obstacles that pack the mental
and emotional in-basket of life. The author reveals
how a calm, beautiful, or spiritually-enhancing
environment fosters a productive and joyful life.
Rights
sold: Beyond Words, Inc. US, 2004. Rights have also
been sold for Korea, Japan, Germany, India, French Canada, Turkey and
Indonesia.
PAUSE:
Putting the Brakes on a Runaway Life
puts the hurried life on notice. Rather than analyze the chaos that churns within our complex society, Pause provides gentle suggestions to inject moments of fun, adventure, self-care and serenity into each day. Pause will convince you that life dramatically improves when we replace meaningless activities, back-to-back commitments, and unfulfilling obligations with all that gives life zest.
Through sparkling anecdotes and solid research, Katherine Gibson calms our physical, emotional and spiritual angst with practical and inspirational down-home wisdom.
Rights
sold: Insomniac Press, Canada, fall
2006
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Leona
Gom is the award-winning author of eleven
published books of poetry and fiction, including
ZERO AVENUE, HOUSEBROKEN, THE Y
CHROMOSONE and three Vikki Bauer
mysteries. Leona won the CAA Award and was
shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award. Her novel
HOUSEBROKEN was awarded the Ethel Wilson
Prize for Fiction. She has also had two full-length
radio plays, produced by CBC.
HATING
GLADYS (272 pp) is a darkly funny literary
novel set in a remote Yukon Lodge in the early
1960s, where two teenage girls work all summer to
earn their university tuition. The ill-treatment
the girls receive at the hands of evil Gladys and
her husband are recalled when they're re-united in
the city 35 years later.
Rights
sold: Canada, Sumach Press, 2002
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Andrew
Gray is a 1996 UBC MFA grad, with an impressive
list of awards and poetry and fiction publication
credits. A web site designer and arts program
coordinator, he is at work on a novel involving art
and WW II.
SMALL
ACCIDENTS a collection of 12 stories (198 pp)
brought favourable reviews from The Globe and
Mail, Publishers' Weekly, and the New York
Times Book Review. SMALL ACCIDENTS was
nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and
the IPPY Award for short fiction.
Rights
sold: Canada Raincoast Books, 2001. Rights have reverted.
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Taras
Grescoe is a young travel writer of
extraordinary talent who has contributed to
National Geographic Travelle, enRoute, New York
Times and many others.
SACRE
BLUES: an Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec
(304 pp) won fans and favourable reviews, as well
as the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-fiction
and the Quebec Writers' Federation awards of the
Mavis Gallant Prize for non-fiction, and Best First
Book Prize.
Rights
sold: Canada (English) Macfarlane, Walter &
Ross, 2000; French VLB editeur, 2002
THE
END OF ELSEWHERE: Travels Among the Tourists
(309 pp) is an on-the-road odyssey and a
brilliant history of tourism. It has been
short-listed for the Mavis Gallant Prize for
non-fiction.
Rights
sold: Canada, Macfarlane Walter & Ross (now
McClelland & Stewart) 2003, UK & US rights
to Serpent's Tail, French Language rights to
VLB.
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Paul
Grescoe & Audrey Grescoe are veteran
editors, journalists and authors of books on
business, trees, and cruise ship travel.
THE
BOOK OF LETTERS: 150 Years of Private Canadian
Correspondence (330 pp), has won rave reviews
and is a popular gift book.
Macfarlane,
Walter & Ross (now McClelland & Stewart)
2002
THE
BOOK OF WAR LETTERS: a Century of Private Canadian
Correspondence (McClelland & Stewart,
2003);
THE
BOOK OF LOVE LETTERS: Canadian Kinship, Friendship
and Romance (McClelland & Stewart,
February 2005)
FLIGHT
PATH: How Westjet is Flying High by Paul
Grescoe (Canada, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
2004)
NORTHERN TIGERS:
Building Ethical Canadian Corporate Champions, A Memoir and a Manifesto by Dick Haskyne
With Paul Grescoe (Canada, Key Porter,
2007)
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Mike
Harcourt served as British Columbia's Premier
from 1991 to 1996, and as Mayor of Vancouver, three
terms from 1980 to 1986. Mr. Harcourt is Chair of
the International Centre for Sustainable Cities,
Senior Associate of the Liu Centre (UBC) for the
Studies of Global Issues. He works at the Rick
Hansen Man in Motion Foundation on International
Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (I-CORD) and
chairs the Spinal Cord Injury Quality of Life
Advisory Group. He speaks and advises
internationally on sustainability solutions. In
November 1996 he was appointed by the Prime
Minister to the National Round Table on the
Environment and the Economy where he serves on the
Executive Committee and Chairs the Urban
Sustainability Program. In May of 2003, he was
appointed Federal Commissioner on The B.C. Treaty
Commission. December 2003, he was appointed by
Prime Minister Paul Martin to Chair an advisory
committee on cities.
He
is the author, with John Lekich, of MIKE
HARCOURT'S PLAN B: ONE MAN'S JOURNEY FROM
TRAGEDY TO TRIUMPH
Rights
sold: North American, John Wiley & Son, Ltd.
Fall 2004
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Ann
Ireland is a widely traveled writing instructor
and past president of Pen Canada.
EXILE
(298 pp) is a smart and sly novel in which Carlos,
a Latin American dissident poet is "rescued" by a
group of Canadian idealists. For Carlos, a spoiled
Latino, his refugee status is a new kind of
imprisonment. Shortlisted for the
Governor-General's Award for Fiction and the
Writers' Trust Prize for Fiction.
Rights
sold: Canada, The Dundurn Group,
2002
THE
INSTRUCTOR (208 pp) probes the nature of power
shifts between man and woman, teacher and student,
when a young woman goes to Mexico with her art
instructor. Short-listed for for the Trillium Book
Award. Published: Canada, Doubleday, 1996; US, Ecco
Press, 1997.
Rights
sold: Canada, Dundurn Group, 2004
A
CERTAIN MR. TAKAHASHI (206 pp) When pianist
Yoshi Takahshi moves next door to adolescent
sisters, Jean and Colette, infatuation and sexual
tensions threaten the balance of their lives.
Winner of the 1985 Seal/Bantam First Novel Award.
The 1991 feature film The Pianist, directed
by Claude Gagnon, was based on this novel.
Published: Canada, McClelland & Stewart; US,
Vanguard; UK, Bantam.
Rights
sold: Canada, Dundurn Group, 2005
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Olive
Skene Johnson, PhD. is a neuro-psychologist.
She has contributed articles on sexuality to
Canadian and American periodicals.
THE
SEXUAL SPECTRUM: Exploring Human Diversity (253
pp) is a fascinating and highly accessible look at
the myriad factors that shape human sexuality. The
author draws on scientific findings, psychological
quizzes, anecdotes, clinical and personal
experiences.
Rights
sold: UK, Aus/NZ (Fusion, Vision paperbacks 2003)
Canada, Raincoast Books, 2004, Revised edition 2007
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Barbara
Lambert is a textile artist and orchardist. She
is at work on a new novel set in
Tuscany.
THE
ALLEGRA SERIES (200 pp) is a charming
contemporary first novel which brilliantly recasts
the traditional love triangle, in which three
artists find their way in the heart of genius and
darkness. Like her mythological predecessors,
Philomela, Ariadne, and Athena, Allegra encircles
lovers and entraps enemies.
Rights
sold: Canada, Beach Holme, 1999
A
MESSAGE FOR MR. LAZARUS (214 pp) short stories
and a novella, which won The Malahat Review
Novella Prize. The book won the Danuta Gleed
Prize for Best First Fiction Collection and was
shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Prize.
Rights
sold: Canada, Cormorant Books, 2000
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Helen
McLean is an acclaimed artist and
memoirist.
SIGNIFICANT
THINGS (260 pp) is a richly-textured literary
novel in which Edward lives an intimate and
impoverished childhood with his feckless mother in
Toronto, until her marriage to a rich manufacturer
takes them to London, where his life of loneliness
begins. Unable to distinguish between loving and
owning, he fills the void with art and antiquities.
Short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize
for Best Book (Canada/Caribbean region).
Rights
sold: Canada, Simon & Pierre,
2003
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Maria
Coletta McLean www.mariacoletta.com
is a Canadian-born writer of Italian ancestory. She
collected and contributed to MAMA MIA! Good
Italian Girls Talk Back (ECW, 2004).
MY
FATHER CAME FROM ITALY (176 pp) is a daughter's
loving account of reclaiming her aged father's
dignity by returning to his home village of
Supino.
Rights
sold: Canada, Raincoast Books, 2000. Rights have reverted.
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Teresa
McWhirter www.teresamcwhirter.com has a BA in creative writing from the
University of Victoria. Her gritty, articles and
short fictions have been published in Geist,
Smoking Lung, Bust, The Nerve, sub-Terrain, Sassy,
Filling Station and Vice.
SOME
GIRLS DO (196 pp) is a rare kind of novel: a
"genuinely revelatory portrait of a generation and
an alternative community rarely described in
fiction. In sharp and ragged prose, Teresa, unlocks
the sub-culture of the young and poor,
almost-adults in a chaotic urban
setting.
Rights
sold: Canada, Polestar Books, 2002. Rights will revert in 2008 due to discontinuation of Raincoast's publishing program.
DIRTBAGS is a coming-of-age novel about Spider, a girl with a messy life on the fringe, who likes to shoplift expensive cheese. McWhirter creates a cast of eccentric and compelling characters and produces a fresh, vibrant voice with a unique take on the world.
Rights
sold: Canada, Anvil Press, 2007
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James
McWilliams & R. James Steel
(pictured at right, top) have both written military
histories as well as co-authoring THE SUICIDE
BATTALION (WW I).
AMIENS:
THE DAWN OF VICTORY (250 pp, 30 illustrations)
is the first study of this historic and decisive
battle of WW I, in France. Long ago, the authors
interviewed survivors and their families and
acquired first-hand accounts of the
event.
Rights
sold: Canada, Dundurn, 2001; UK, Tempus,
2003
GAS!
THE BATTLES FOR YPRES, 1915 ( 243 pp).
Published by in Canada by Vanwell in 1985, rights
have now reverted.
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Marg
Meikle www.dearanswerlady.com
is the Queen of Trivia and a West Coast author of
six books for adults. She has written several
Question & Answer books for kids.
FUNNY
YOU SHOULD ASK (Scholastic Books,
1998)
YOU
ASKED FOR IT! (Scholastic Books,
2000)
ASK
ME ANYTHING! (Scholastic Books,
2004)
Rights
for various titles have been sold to the U.S.,
Croatia, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary,
Lithuania and Korea
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Noreen
Olson is a popular Alberta farmer, marriage
commissioner and public speaker. Her six books of
essays have been best-sellers for many
years.
THE
SCHOOL BUS DOESN'T STOP HERE ANYMORE: Essays of
Family, Community and Transitions with
introduction by Will Ferguson
Rights
sold: Canada, Douglas & McIntyre, 2004
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Brett Alexander Savory www.brettsavory.com is the Bram Stoker
Award-winning Editor-in-Chief of ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in
Words, is a Developmental Editor at Scholastic Canada and writes for Rue Morgue Magazine. His horror-comedy
novel THE DISTANCE TRAVELLED was published by Necro Publications. He is at
work on three novels: The Soul Projectionists, Running Beneath the Skin, and
Bottom Drawer.
IN AND DOWN ( inanddown.com)is the story of brothers Michael and Stephen. When their mother leaves the family their father teaches them that women do not truly exist. One of the brothers descends into himself looking for answers about what happened to his mother and when he emerges from this inner journey, he is forced to confront a secret that’s been buried deep inside for over 30 years.
Rights Sold:
Brindle and Glass, Canada, 2007.
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Dr.
Stanley Semrau is a forensic psychiatrist who
has treated and testified about his assessments of
the mad and the bad on trial.
MURDEROUS
MINDS ON TRIAL: Terrible Tales From A Forensic
Psychiatrist's Casebook (323 pp), with
co-author Judy Gale.
Rights
sold: Canada, Dundurn, 2003
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BARRY
SHELL www.science.ca
has made a career of making science comprehensible
to the layperson. His first book, GREAT CANADIAN
SCIENTISTS, was published by Polestar Books in
1997.
SENSATIONAL
SCIENTISTS profiles dozens of scientists and
their work. What does it mean to be a scientist?
Where and how do scientists work? What outstanding
contributions have they made. Barry has interviewed
all of the scientists profiled. Raincoast Books
(fall 2005, Canada and the US). Rights have reverted.
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Richard
Van Camp www.richardvancamp.org
is an aboriginal writer from the North. He has
an MFA in creative writing from UBC. His stories
have been widely anthologized. In 1996 he won the
Air Canada/Canadian Authors Association for Most
Promising Young Author under 30. He has had two
picture books, illustrated by George Littlechild,
published by Children's Book Press (US), A MAN
CALLED RAVEN, and WHAT'S THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
THING YOU KNOW ABOUT HORSES? Stories selected
from ANGEL WING SPLASH PATTERN (Kegedonce,
2002), was published in 2004 by Aufbau
Taschenbuch Verlag of Berlin.
THE
LESSER BLESSED (119 pp), a bravura first novel,
is a hyperkinetic look at the harsh realities of
teen life is a small northern town. It won the
prestigious German Jugendlitteraturpreis,
2001.
Rights
sold: Canada, Douglas & McIntyre, 1996,
2004;
Germany,
Ravensburger, 2000, re-publication 2008;
France,
Gaia, 2003; 10/18 French language pocketbook
rights; optioned by First Generation
Films
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Patricia
Van Tighem was a newly married young nurse when
she and her husband were attacked by a grizzly
bear. Patricia died December 14, 2005.
THE
BEAR'S EMBRACE (256 pp) is the true story of
not only surviving the attack, but of how she and
her husband survived the transformation from being
beautiful and strong, to being disfigured, wracked
with pain, enduring years of multiple surgeries. In
a culture which values beauty and good looks, this
memoir offers insight, courage and hope. It was
nominated for several major awards, and earned the
editor, Barbara Pulling, the Tom Fairley
award.
Rights
sold: Canada, Greystone Books, 2000,
2001;
USA,
Anchor/Pantheon, 2001,
2002;
Germany,
btb Verlag, 2003
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