World, All rights to Métis debut novelist and award-winning professor of Indigenous science and technology studies Kristen Gray Bos’ THE INTERROGATION ROOM, following a young woman answering questions from police about a sexual assault, gradually unravelling threads of archaeology, biology, history, Indigeneity and beyond as the interrogation progresses…
Read MoreWorld (All) rights to award-winning picture book author Chieri Uegaki’s YA debut, EMIKO, a rom-com loosely inspired by Jane Austen’s Emma, and pitched in the style of Ayesha At Last, in which self-declared “matchmaking genius” Emiko Kimori tries to orchestrate the love lives of everyone around her but ends up falling in love with the last person she expects…
Read MoreAward-winning playwright and advertising strategist Aurora Stewart de Peña’s JULIUS JULIUS, an eerie, wry, and Lynchian oral biography of the titular advertising agency, offering testimonies that include a young, ambitious maverick tasked with building a campaign for wood, a seasoned copywriter haunted by a boy who went missing during the construction of the agency’s elevator, and a ghost still bitter about her former boss and team, gradually revealing the veneer of creative industries and the crisis of consciousness underneath…
Read MoreAuthor, screenwriter, and musician Rob Benvie's BOOK OF THE FLOCK, a galloping, incendiary tale set in the undeveloped Adirondack Mountains of the early 1950s, following the young Morley sisters as they flee their burning past only to take refuge among a derelict utopian community led by a tempestuous and charismatic leader, exploring the medium of the cult novel and themes of progress and persuasion…
Read MoreGenevieve Scott's THE DAMAGES, set in motion by the disappearance of a student during an ice storm, exploring themes of memory, trauma, friendship, and identity
Read MoreAward-winning and internationally-published author, Laurie Petrou, and award-winning playwright and television writer, Kate Fodor's ("The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel") debut middle grade novel, THE REHEARSAL CLUB, a lighthearted middle-grade mystery inspired by New York City’s historic boarding house for aspiring actresses, as 12-year-old Pal and her newly-formed pack of friends uncover a decades-old mystery that stretches across a dual timeline between present day and the 1950s…
Read MoreAward-winning author and playwright, best known for his Marty Chan Mystery Series, Marty Chan’s DETENTION, a humorous middle grade mystery novel featuring an intrepid school reporter, Izzy, as she launches a podcast series investigating the possible wrongful conviction and detention sentence of a classmate; pitched as a technologically updated Harriet the Spy meets the mockumentary ‘American Vandal…’
Read MoreAuthor of the award-winning bestselling memoir and 2021 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Non-Fiction THEY SAID THIS WOULD BE FUN, Eternity Martis’s debut novel WHITE LIES, a darkly humourous satire-drama inspired by a culture of white women behaving badly (and the patriarchal influences that lets them) and the dark and messy side of female friendships…
Read MoreTheodore C. Van Alst Jr. (enrolled member Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians)'s THE EL, a semi-autobiographical novel that takes place on a single day in 1979 Chicago as a group of teenage Royals trek across the city to attend a gathering of fellow gang members in a story that's pitched as half TOMMY ORANGE, half THE WARRIORS, entirely a love letter to a group of friends trying to make their way in a city (and a country) that doesn't want them…
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