📚🎉 BOOK LAUNCH 🎉📚 Please join us to celebrate the launch of #THEBREAKWATER by #LeslieShimotakahara. 📍 Ben McNally Books 108 Queen Street East, Toronto 📅 Wednesday, April 15 ⏰ 5–7 PM Enjoy a reading, refreshments, and a book signing as Leslie celebrates the release of this powerful new novel.

Join #Megan#Bontrager to celebrate the launch of #THESEAHIDESITSDEAD, a chilling aquatic cult horror debut. 🌊📚 🗓 July 29 ⏰ 6:30–8 PM 📍 Daunt Books, Holland Park (London) Pick up a signed copy, grab a drink and a snack, and chat with fellow book lovers. Preorder: a.co/d/0gLihuhz

📚 DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT 📚 #TOCATCHAPREDATOR by #BishopThomasDowd has been acquired by Marc Côté at Cormorant Books for publication in Spring 2027! This powerful nonfiction work offers a first-person account of the research and politics involved in investigating a pedophile priest in Montreal.

The cover is here for #MYMONSTERSAINTLIKEYOURS, a new short story collection by R.J. Joseph, coming July 15, 2026 from Quill & Crow. This collection examines how we define monstrosity—and what our fears reveal about us. 👁️🖤 📖 Preorder the paperback now: thecrowshoppe.com/collections/...

We are thrilled to announce Emma E. Murray's DECAY CHAIN, a psychological horror novel following an aspiring family annihilator, in which a father of three decides to escape his boring suburban life once and for all. Coming April 2027 from Ghoulish Books. Pre-order here: ghoulish.rip/product/deca...

📚 COMING APRIL 4 📚 #THEBREAKWATER by #LeslieShimotakahara (Cormorant Books) is a sweeping multigenerational story about family, memory, and the long shadow of a buried secret. Don't miss out! Preorder today: a.co/d/070YwxEZ

📚✍️ Learn the Publishing Industry from the Inside ✍️📚 #SamHiyate, founder and CEO of The Rights Factory, is teaching “A Literary Agent’s Guide to Getting Published.” This online course offers an insider’s look at the modern publishing world. Register here: 2learn.utoronto.ca/search/publi...

🌿 Join #HarryTurner, British naturalist and founder of #EmeraldArch, for a powerful community talk on conservation, mental health, war, and the healing power of nature. Turner’s story was featured in the Emmy Award–winning Prime film Wildcat. 🌿 Learn more: www.bindicommunityyoga.com

📰📚 #SHOOTINGUP by #JonathanTepper has been featured in The Times! “It would be easiest to describe Tepper’s elegiac book as a hybrid between Patricia Lockwood’s Priestdaddy and Matt Rowland Hill’s Original Sins… but it is much more… This is a memoir full of hope.” www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

#TINYHIKER by #NatashaZimmers is out now from Orca Books! 📚🌲 Follow one determined young adventurer as she hikes through towering trees toward a beach campsite. ⭐ “A standout debut that will inspire young readers to explore the outdoors.” — School Library Journal, starred review a.co/d/01MCNDsF

#AlexisStefanovichThomson is celebrating the launch of OPPOSITE SULLY’S GYM, in conversation with Emily Kellogg.📚🎉 📍Another Story Bookshop 315 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto 📅 Tuesday, March 31 🕖 7:00 PM Get a free ticket for the launch here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/alexis-ste...

📚✨ The cover is here for #THEGRIEFSHOP: AND OTHER STORIES FROM A BROKEN WORLD by #AlexDiFrancesco, which will release on June 2 from Seven Stories Press! Check out the cover and preorder now: www.sevenstories.com/books/4823-t...

Join #ClarissaTrinidadGonzalez for Canada Reads Asian: Diaspora Voices Reshaping Canadian Literature, a panel featuring Asian #CanadaReads longlisters in conversation about storytelling, identity, and the evolving landscape of Canadian literature. 📚🎤

🎧📚 #THELOVEQUEST by #HeatherGraceStewart is now available in audiobook from Tantor Audio! This sweeping time-travel romance blends heart, humour, and Highland adventure. Get the audiobook here: www.audible.ca/author/Heath...

📚 OBLIVIOUS: RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS, SEGREGATED HOSPITALS, AND THE USE OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AS SLAVES OF RACE SCIENCE by Elaine Dewar publishes tomorrow from Biblioasis! In this work of nonfiction, Dewar examines the machinery behind Canada’s settler colonial project. Get your copy: a.co/d/0j1CaOtH

Join #LindaSchuyler—co-creator and producer of the iconic #Degrassi television franchise—at Toronto’s Beaches Bookfest as she reads from #THEMOTHEROFALLDEGRASSI: A MEMOIR. 🎤📚 🔗 Event details: beachmetro.com/2026/02/24/b...

We’re celebrating R.J. Joseph, whose story “Inheritance” (FULL THROTTLE: A DARK DOZEN ANTHOLOGY, Uncomfortably Dark Publishing) appears on the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction. 🔥🖤 See the final ballot here: bramstokerawards.horror.org/front-page/h...

🖋️✨ Alexis M. Wright has launched a Substack, creating a space for essays and fragments written slowly. Her work there is observational, sometimes unfinished, occasionally unresolved. It circles memory, estrangement, class, and the value of things we’re taught to discard. alexismwright.substack.com

🚨📚 #BrittanyOliver’s debut novel #THEINVULNERABLEMIDWIFE has sold to Crooked Lane! A near-future dystopia set in a deadly virus–ravaged society, the story follows a midwife who risks everything to cross borders and deliver life-saving medicine—only to be captured by a tyrannical leader.

#KyoLee’s I CUT MY TONGUE ON A BROKEN COUNTRY has been included on CBC Books’ “30 Canadian Books to Read in Winter 2026” list! 📚❄️ A powerful recognition from one of Canada’s leading literary platform. See the full list here: www.cbc.ca/books/30-can...

#FinnianBurnett’s latest piece, “Pacing Your Writing Career,” is featured in Writer’s Digest magazine! We’re proud to see more of their work out in the world. ✍️📚 Pick up the latest issue of #WritersDigest here to read the full piece: www.writersdigest.com/writers-dige...

📚🖊️ COMIX #BOOKCLUB 🖊️📚 Lion’s Tooth is hosting two fantastic #graphicmemoir/history discussions this spring, and we’re especially thrilled that #MauriceVellekoop, author of I'M SO GLAD WE HAD THIS TIME TOGETHER, will be featured in March!

🚑💘 @cadencerushbooks.bsky.social’s LOVE, PRN and books two and three in the medical romance #HEARTSOFMIDTOWNHOSPITAL series, have sold to #PodiumAudio in a three-book deal, at auction! Huge congratulations to Cadence Rush and agent @nikkigetsliterary.bsky.social on this exciting audio deal!

📘✨ #COVERREVEAL + PRESALES! Introducing #GENDERAFFIRMINGCARE: A GUIDE FOR FAMILIES OF MEDICALLY TRANSITIONING YOUTH by #TammyPlunkett, releasing November 3, 2026 from John Hopkins University Press! 📖 Preorder here: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Big news for A.A. Livingston! 💚 #GRIZELDATHEGREENHATESHALLOWEEN has been named a Finalist for the #2026OregonBookAwards! 🏆 Winners will be announced April 20—fingers crossed for Grizelda! Full finalist list here: 🔗https://literary-arts.org/2026/02/announcing-the-2026-oregon-book-awards-finalists/

#MarkusRedmond will be a Headlining Author at #BigOhioBookCon2026. ✨📚 Markus will also appear on the panel “Past as Prologue: Horror’s Historical Lens” on Saturday, June 6 (4:00–4:45 p.m.), and his novel #BLOODSLAVES will be available at the event. 🔗 Tickets here: tinyurl.com/bigohiobookc...

Congratulations to #RuneKierNielsen! 📚🌿 The #MissouriAssociationofSchoolLibrarians (MASL) has selected #SPEAKINGONCLIMATE for the 2026 Dogwood Non-Fiction Recommended Reading List for Grades 9–12. Check out the full list here: maslonline.org/masl-readers... 📖 Get your copy: a.co/d/0fXxHlrM

🌈📘Welcome to the world, #COLORINNATURE by #StephenAitken! Out now from #OrcaBooks. From rainbow parrots to color-shifting octopuses, this beautifully illustrated nonfiction book explores how animals use color to survive. 📖 Get your copy here: a.co/d/04qHcnIP

#SHOOTINGUP: A MEMOIR by #JonathanTepper (Infinite Books) is out now! Set in Madrid’s most notorious drug slum during the height of Europe’s heroin epidemic, SHOOTING UP is a raw, compassionate account of a family who chose radical empathy over respectability. 📖 Get your copy: a.co/d/02a2eYW9

🌊📘 BOOK RELEASE 📘🌊 Excited to share that #UNFATHOMABLE by #MaryBoone releases tomorrow from Bright Matter—and it’s a deep dive into the strangest, wildest, and most unbelievable truths our oceans have to offer. 🌊 Out tomorrow, preorder today: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/770932...

📚✨The cover for #THETHROWAWAYS by #GretaKelly is here—and it’s all secrets, spies, and family chaos! On sale Oct 20, 2026 from Sideways (an Entangled imprint). ✨ DELUXE LIMITED EDITION available in a first print run (U.S. & Canada only) 📖 Presales now live: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-throwa...

✈️ #THEFLYINGFEMINIST by #MaryBoone is out now from Andersen Press UK! Perfect for budding #feminists and fearless adventurers, this narrative nonfiction picture book celebrates curiosity, courage, and the joy of defying expectations. 🔗 Get your copy: www.andersenpress.co.uk/books/the-fl...

🎬📚 Payton McCarty-Simas, author of #THATVERYWITCH: FEAR, FEMINISM, AND THE AMERICAN WITCH FILM, will be on site at #TheIndependentPictureHouse for a special film sub-series exploring the history and evolution of the witch in American cinema! independentpicturehouse.org/film-series/...

✍️📚 Upcoming Pitch Event! TRF agent @nikkigetsliterary.bsky.social will be in attendance to receive pitches at the #BostonWritingWorkshop, hosted by #WritingDayWorkshops, on March 28, 2026, in Boston, MA. 🔗 Register here: thebostonwritingworkshop.wordpress.com

💔🖋️ UPCOMING WEBINAR 🖋️💔 TRF agent #JesTrudel is hosting #Query Unrequited: Why I Didn't Fall in Love with Your Submission, a live webinar offering an honest, behind-the-scenes look at real queries and why they were rejected. 🔗 Register at WritingCommunity.ca

✨📘 It's time for a #COVERREVEAL! Check out the fantastic cover for #SylvieCathrall's #THEARTOFCHARMINGACHANGELING, the first of three new romantasies and the start of an enchanting new chapter! The book will be released on August 25, 2026 by Orbit Books. 🔗 Preorder here: a.co/d/iXOmSYZ

📘✨ #SHOOTINGUP by #JonathanTepper releases February 17! Set in Madrid’s most notorious drug slum during Europe’s heroin epidemic, SHOOTING UP recounts a childhood spent among recovering addicts, radical compassion, and hard-won grace. 🔗 Preorder: www.amazon.com/Shooting-Up-...

🖊️📚 Join Chicago-based cartoonist and academic #DaryaForoohar for a live, hands-on online workshop exploring graphic essays and how #comics can make academic theory more accessible. 🔗 Register here: www.crucialcomix.com/product/grap...

🌊📘 #THESEAHIDESITSDEAD by #MeganBontrager is now available for preorder, ahead of its July 14, 2026 release from Orbit Books. THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD plunges readers into a haunting world where the ocean remembers everything. 🔗 Preorder here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/megan...

📘#MOMBRAIN by #NicoleHackett is available for preorder through Target! As expectations of modern motherhood collide with manipulation and power, MOM BRAIN reframes the term we’re taught to dismiss as a superpower worth trusting. 🔗 Preorder here: www.target.com/p/mom-brain-...

📚✨ DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT ✨📚 #GretaKelly is now entering her thriller era! Her new novel #THETHROWAWAYS is set for release in October 2026 and follows three generations of women as they are drawn into a deadly spy game when the family matriarch's past as a KGB double agent comes back to haunt them.

🖋️📚 WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT 📚🖋️ #SamHiyate, Founder and CEO of #TheRightsFactory, is leading a 10-week workshop titled "Sell Your Memoir," drawing on 22+ years as a literary agent and 25 successfully sold memoirs. 🔗 Apply here: syww.org/products/sel...

🗞️📚 We’re excited to share that two of our clients—#LeslieShimotakahara for #THEBREAKWATER and #AlexisStefanovichThomson for #OPPOSITESULLYSGYM—are featured on #49thShelf’s Most Anticipated Spring 2026 Fiction Preview! 🔗 See the full list here: 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/01...

Agent and author #WayneArthurson will be on faculty for #CrimeWriting 2026, a literary arts residency at the #BanffCentre for Arts and Creativity! 📚🖋️ 🔗 Apply today: www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...

#AlexisStefanovichThomson speaks with #HollywoodNorthMagazine about his forthcoming noir novel #OPPOSITESULLYSGYM, out March 31, 2026. 🔗 Read the interview: hnmag.ca/interview/ma...

📚✨ DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT ✨📚 #BADWIDOW by Beverley Ann D’Cruz has been sold to Zainab Mirza at Viking Canada for publication in 2028! Pitched as CRYING IN H MART meets FLEABAG with a touch of HEARTBURN. The deal was negotiated by Julia Kim of The Rights Factory.

We’re thrilled to share the paperback cover (with sprayed edges!) for #BLOODSLAVES by #MarkusRedmond—a bold, defiant reimagining of the vampire origin story set during the early days of American slavery. The paperback edition will be out July 28. Preorder: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/781340...

🍸📚 Event Highlight 📚🍸 #BarbaraRadecki will be reading from her novel #THEDARKHOUSE at #Drunk Fiction, a beloved literary series pairing bold writing with strong drinks. Barbara will be reading alongside Teri Vlassopoulos, Alex Pugsley, and Catherine Bush, with Heidi von Palleske hosting.

🎉📘 Out now! 📘🎉 We’re celebrating the release of #THESADBOOK by our client #HowardPearlstein, illustrated by James Munro. This is the third title in the beloved #EmotionBook series. 🔗 Get your copy here: graffeg.com/products/the...

🎧📚 DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT 📚🎧 TRF client #MeghanFitzmartin is adapting Boom! Studios' hit comic series #SOMETHINGISKILLINGTHECHILDREN by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera for audio! The deal was negotiated by Matt Belford of The Rights Factory.