Red Deer Press is one of Canada`s leading publishers of children`s literature. The publishing house began as a subsidiary of Red Deer College and became an independent publisher of children`s titles in 1985. In recent decades, they have published several fiction titles for children and young adults. Now, his list also includes adult titles – humor, poetry, drama, and fiction are just a few of his favorite genres. Because of their significant contributions in the literary field, she and her authors have also won more than 300 awards. Fortunately, Red Deer Press is currently open for submissions. You can reach them on this page. “Middle-class titles are in high demand,” says Karen Boersma, editor-in-chief of Owlkids Books. She notes that 2020 has been a surprisingly good year for the publisher, with sales up 30% year-on-year, and highlights the strong interest in books like Thao Lam`s The Paper Boat, which has sold more than 10,000 copies. Owlkids released several notable titles this fall, including Meranda and the Legend of Lake by Meaghan Mahoney, which the publisher describes as “Anne of Green Gables meets Song for a Whale, with a Touch of Nancy Drew.” It was selected as a selection of the Junior Library Guild. Then there`s Marie-Claude Ouellet`s Amazing Athletes: An All-Star Look at Canada`s Paralympians, which was made available in time for the Tokyo Paralympic Games. One of the fastest growing categories during the same period was YA Fantasy, which grew 129 percent, according to BookNet.
Publishers are increasingly focusing on this category of titles written in Canada that have international appeal. One of the titles is Penguin Teen`s Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (see “Past Meets Future,” our Q&A with Xiran, p. 21), a speculative work of fiction that incorporates elements of Chinese history and mecha (robot) fights. Simon & Schuster publishes Sarah Raughley`s The Bones of Ruin, a historical fantasy novel about an immortal African tightrope walker who participates in a deadly gladiator tournament in Victorian London. For college readers, Pajama Press has published the fantasy novel Cuckoo`s Flight, Wendy Orr`s third Bronze Age novel, in which a disabled girl must help protect her city from thieves who want to destroy it. Another Pajama Press headline that catches the eye is Bahram Rahman`s A Sky-Blue Bench and illustrated by Peggy Collins, a children`s picture book about an Afghan girl with a prosthetic leg who builds a bench to afford to go to school. Karen Brochu of House of Anansi, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, emphasized the importance of community. Referring to both the book publishing industry and the pandemic, she says, “We are all here together, and we need to do it together.” Formerly known as BookThug, Book*Hug is an independent publisher focused on contemporary titles. Founded in 2004, the company has a single goal: to publish innovative and challenging titles in the fields of literary and non-fiction fiction, poetry and theatre, as well as translated literature.
Book*Hug represented emerging and established authors. Some of his tracks are “Coconut Dreams” by Derek Mascarenhas and “Before I was A Critic, I was a Human Being” by Amy Fung. Book*Hug is currently actively looking for new titles. So, if you want your works to be published by them, read the submission guidelines here. Are you a university writer in the humanities? Do you need a reputable publisher to bring you closer to some of the greatest minds in the world today? In either case, Broadview Press can help. Operating as an independent publisher since 1985, the company seeks publications on the themes of philosophy, English studies, politics, writing and composition and more. They are also interested in scientific work on environmental and feminist topics. They have an excellent list of respected authors such as Margaret Cavendish or Julius Bailey and are large enough to distribute their books worldwide. You can find out how to submit your manuscript or proposal here. Harbour Publishing Co Ltd www.harbourpublishing.com/ Arsenal Pulp Press is a five-time finalist for the Canadian Booksellers Association`s Small Press Publisher of the Year Award and a past winner of the Jim Douglas Publisher of the Year Award. You will be interested in literary fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels, genre studies, regional history, alternative crafts, cooking and more. .
In recent years, the company has worked with writers such as Joshua Whitehead of “Johnny Appleseed” and Kevin Chong of “The Plague.” Arsenal Pulp Press publishes its titles on a variety of topics, including humor, LGBTQ+ fiction and non-fiction, political studies, youth culture, biography and memoirs, and social topics, to name just a few examples. Are you ready to push the boundaries? If so, read the submission guidelines here. At Groundwood Books, says publisher Karen Li, the priority is to “tell the side of stories that aren`t really being told.” Titles for the upcoming season include Burying the Moon, a picture book about public sanitation issues in rural India by Andrée Poulin and illustrated by Sonali Zohra, and Aquí era el paraíso/Here Was Paradise, a bilingual book of poetry by Guatemalan author Humberto Ak`abal, one of America`s best-known indigenous poets. Groundwood`s parent company, House of Anansi Press, will soon publish two notable titles: Joanna Chiu`s China Unbound: A New World Disorder, in which a foreign correspondent documents the global expansion of China`s cultural influence, and Pamela Korgemagi`s The Hunter and the Old Woman, a first novel about a mythical mountain lion and the man who hunts it. At Firefly Books, backlist titles accounted for 80 percent of sales in 2020, says president Lionel Koffler, referring to The Night Sky Almanac, which sold about 30,000 copies. Koffler notes that given the spike in shipping prices (the price of shipping a container from China has risen from $4,000 to $22,000), he will be publishing fewer books and in smaller quantities this year. .