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Nerve                                The Idea of Canada

by Martha Piper and                         by David Johnston
      Indira Samarasekera

ECW Press (Canada) 2021                    McClelland & Stewart/Signal (Canada) 2016
Recorded Media (audio)                       Les Éditions La Presse (Canada, French language)

Nerve: Lessons in leadership from two women who went first       

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About Robert

Robert Mackwood is the Owner and President of Seventh Avenue Literary Agency. Robert brings over three decades of experience in the book publishing industry. He has been an executive with a multinational publishing company, sat on editorial boards, ran a multi-million dollar marketing division, and has operated his own literary agency and consulting firm for the past twenty years.

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New & Noteworthy

SOLD: David Borys, PUNCHING ABOVE OUR WEIGHT: The Canadian Military at War Since 1867 to Dundurn Press, Canada

SOLD: Wolfgang Linden, THE ILLUSION OF CONTROL: A Practical Guide to Avoid Futile Struggles to Rowan & Littlefield, USA

SOLD: Steven Foerster, TRAILBLAZERS, HEROES, AND CROOKS: Stories to Make You a Smarter Investor to Wiley USA

SOLD: Film/TV rights for CREATURES OF THE ROCK the award-winning memoir by Andrew Peacock to Blue Ant Media in Toronto

Chinese language rights to Bill Bishop’s latest book DANCING WITH ROBOTS (Dundurn Canada) and five of his other books including How to Sell a Lobster, The Problem with Penguins, The New Factory Thinker, Beyond Basketballs, and Return of the Lobster by Big Apple Tuttle Agency China

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