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Westwood Creative Artists ___________________________________________ FRANKFURT CATALOGUE Fall 2018 INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS Director: Carolyn Forde Associate: Meg Wheeler AGENTS Carolyn Forde Jackie Kaiser Michael A. Levine Hilary McMahon John Pearce Bruce Westwood FILM & TELEVISION Michael A. Levine 386 Huron Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2G6 Canada Phone: (416) 964-3302 ext. 223 & 233 E-mail: [email protected] & [email protected] Website: www.wcaltd.com Table of Contents News from Westwood Creative Artists page 3 – 5 Recent sales page 6 – 7 Fiction Nicole Lundrigan, Hideaway page 10 Raziel Reid, Kens page 11 Alisa Smith, Doublespeak page 12 M.G. Vassanji, A Delhi Obsession page 13 Non-Fiction Sarah Berman, Don’t Call It a Cult page 16 Erin Davis, Mourning Has Broken page 17 Gail Gallant, The Changeling page 18 Don Gillmor, To The River page 19 Stephen J. Harper, Right Here, Right Now page 20 Thomas Homer-Dixon, Commanding Hope page 21 Darren McLeod, Mamaskatch page 22 Tessa McWatt, Shame on Me page 23 Ailsa Ross, The Woman Who Rode a Shark page 24 Poetry Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain page 26 Titles of Special Note Karma Brown, Recipe for a Perfect Wife page 28 Kim Fu, The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore page 29 Thomas King, The Dreadfulwater series page 30 – 31 Manjushree Thapa, All of Us In Our Own Lives page 32 Richard Wagamese, Starlight page 33 Mark Abley, Watch Your Tongue page 34 Darrell Bricker & John Ibbitson, Empty Planet page 35 David Chariandy, I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You page 36 Rae Congdon, GAYBCs page 37 B. Brett Finlay & Jessica Finlay, The Whole-Body Microbiome page 38 James Fitzgerald, Dreaming Sally page 39 Elizabeth Hay, All Things Consoled page 40 Jay Ingram, The Science of Why series page 41 – 42 Selected client list page 43 Co-agents page 44 WESTWOOD CREATIVE ARTISTS www.wcaltd.com 2 October 2018 Welcome to Westwood Creative Artists’ Fall 2018 catalogue! We’re looking forward to another year of bringing exceptional writers and their works to an international audience. Here are some exciting highlights, outstanding accomplishments, and pressing news from our authors over the past few months. Yann Martel’s beloved Man Booker Prize-winning novel, Life of Pi, is heading to the stage! London’s Simon Friend Entertainment is currently workshopping the production, which is scheduled to open in June 2019 at the Sheffield Crucible Theatre. Stay tuned for more information! Najwa Zebian (p. 38) continues to inspire audiences with her empowering poetry. Mind Platter graced The Globe and Mail bestseller list in the spring and summer, was proclaimed an Indigo best book, and is a permanent fixture in one of the top three spots in her category on Amazon. With an Instagram following approaching 800,000, Najwa is also sharing her wisdom at live events, including the Hussain’s House mental health festival in London, England, the Thrive conference in Las Vegas, a Girls Inc. luncheon in Ontario, and a Humans of Fashion event to kick off New York Fashion Week. Najwa’s calendar is packed this fall, too, with participation at three literary festivals, a TEDx talk, and a speech before 16,000 youth at Me to We in Ottawa. Indonesian and Polish rights have been sold, with Andrews McMeel publishing in the English language around the world. Film and TV rights to Kim Fu’s The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore (p. 41) have been optioned by Seven24 Films, one of Canada’s leading production companies, who are looking to develop a This Is Us style television series based on the novel. Meanwhile, The New York Times Book Review praised Fu’s rendering of the complexities of young girls’ lives, calling Fu “a propulsive storyteller, using clear and cutting prose to move seamlessly through time… In the one-way glass of the novel, we watch the girls of Forevermore from a series of angles, in all their private anguishes. We lean closer, unable to turn away.” Fu has a story in the 2018 Hingston & Olsen short story advent calendar, has been commissioned to present new work at Hugo House in November, and will be attending the Portland Book Festival this November as well as traveling to Australia in 2019 to promote the book in that market for publisher Legend Press. Sarah Mian’s Atlantic Book Award-winning and Stephen Leacock Award nominated darkly comic novel When the Saints has been optioned for film/television by Lady Hammond Entertainment. Juno Rinaldi, award-winning playwright and theater actor has acquired film and television rights to Jennifer Manuel’s Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize-winning literary novel, The Heaviness of Things That Float. Joel Thomas Hynes continues to garner acclaim and dominate awards lists for his novel We’ll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night, which won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the BMO Winterset Award, and most recently the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award, in addition to having been longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. A national bestseller, We’ll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night was praised as “Filled with broken characters, unfulfilled dreams, and lost opportunities. He’s like Canada’s Irvine Welsh,” by The Globe & Mail, and Quill & Quire called Joel “One of the most distinctive and recognizable voices in the Canadian literary canon.” Joel has also started to work on season two of his black comedy hit CBC TV show Little Dog in which he plays a disgraced boxer forced to return to the ring. Joel is the star, co-writer, and creator of the show. WESTWOOD CREATIVE ARTISTS www.wcaltd.com 3 In the eighteen months since the untimely death of Richard Wagamese, his books have been selling better than ever. English-language audio rights have recently been sold to the whole of his extensive backlist – not just his novels but his non- fiction as well. Sales of Indian Horse in Canada have been outstanding in the wake of the tremendous success of the film ‘Indian Horse.’ Now the film is making its debut on the international stage with festival screenings in the US to be followed by general release. It will be featured at the Grand Opening of the Canada Now Festival in Beijing, with subsequent theatrical screenings in Shanghai and two other Chinese cities. There will be a theatrical tour in Mexico, and distribution rights have been sold for Spain and the former Yugoslavia. Meanwhile, Wagamese’s final unfinished novel, Starlight (p. 49), has just been published in Canada to wide acclaim – “The prose has the direct yet immersive quality of Ernest Hemingway,” said the Winnipeg Free Press. Starlight went straight onto bestseller lists and looks set to rival the success of his earlier novels. David Chariandy’s non-fiction book, I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter (p. 52), has been receiving rave reviews. At 20,000 words, this slim volume packs a powerful punch: The Globe and Mail called it “[P]oetic and moving… Endearingly intimate and full of love,” and Nafkote Tamirat, author of The Parking Lot Attendant, calls it “[S]tunning… A precise puncturing of the post-racial bubble… I wish I could have read this when I was growing up.” Published in Canada by McClelland and Stewart, rights have thus far been sold in the US and UK (Bloomsbury), Germany (Ullstein Verlag), and France (Editions Zoe). Kyo Maclear’s memoir, Birds Art Life, called “a wondrous little book” by The New York Times, won the 2018 Trillium Book Award and the 2017 Nautilus Award for Lyrical Prose earlier this year. As a reminder, translation rights have been sold in China (CITIC), Russia (AdMarginem), Spain (Ariel), and Taiwan (Gusa), as well as to Scribner (US), Fourth Estate (UK), and Doubleday (Canada). Marcello Di Cintio is just back from a UK tour to promote Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense, with events at the Imperial War Museum, Kensington Central Library, Centre for Arab British Understanding, P21 Gallery, Bristol Central Library, and WoW/Liverpool Arab Arts Festival. Pay No Heed to the Rockets earned starred reviews in both Booklist (“timely and exquisite”) and Publishers Weekly (“powerful and perceptive”), and received very strong reviews in The Bookseller, Kirkus and Library Journal as well. James Maskalyk’s Life on the Ground Floor: Letters from the Edge of Emergency Medicine has been nominated for the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non- Fiction, adding to an already impressive run for this national bestseller which was the winner of the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, shortlisted for the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize, shortlisted for the 2018 Trillium Book Award, longlisted for the 2018 BC National Award for Canadian Non-fiction, a finalist for the 2017 Toronto Book Awards and a Globe and Mail Best Book, a National Post Best Book, a CBC Best Book, and a Chatelaine Best Book. Life on the Ground Floor has also been optioned for a dramatic television series by Lark Productions. WESTWOOD CREATIVE ARTISTS www.wcaltd.com 4 The pages that follow comprise our current title list for the Frankfurt Book Fair, 2018. We welcome inquiries to our International Rights Director, Carolyn Forde ([email protected]), and invite you to visit our website at www.wcaltd.com. We thank you for your ongoing interest in our writers and we wish you every success for the upcoming publishing year. WESTWOOD CREATIVE ARTISTS www.wcaltd.com 5 RECENT SALES FICTION Caroline Adderson, In a Once Upon a Time Village, World: Tundra/Penguin Random House Canada Gail Anderson-Dargatz, The Almost Wife, World: HarperCollins Canada Anita Badami, Can You Hear the Nightbird Call, Film/Television: REALLIFE Pictures Inc.