March 2010
Career Press- New Page Books (USA) has bought World rights to the newly revised and updated The Poltergeist Phenomenon: An In-depth Investigation into Floating Beds, Smashing Glass, and Other Unexplained Disturbances by Michael Clarkson. Originally published in Canada as When Beds Float in 2005, this investigative work explores over 50 international recorded poltergeist events and the author interviews witnesses, experts – and subjects in this supernatural field. Fall 2010 release.
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December 2009
Former Canadian triathlete champion and vegan spokesman Brendan Brazier’s third book THRIVE FOODS, again, to Andrea Magyar, Senior Editor, Penguin Canada for World English rights. Publication is scheduled for 2011.

David Dyment’s DOING THE CONTINENTAL: A Short Guide to a New Relationship with the USA to Michael Carroll at Dundurn for 2010 publication.
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October 2009
Whitecaps Books has sold French (Quebec) rights to Ron Shewchuk's BARBECUE SECRETS DELUXE to Éditions AdA Inc. for publication in 2010.

Seventh Avenue has sold Korean rights to Bill Bishop’s HOW TO SELL A LOBSTER to Kungangshinmunsa.
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August 2009
We welcome celebrity fitness trainer Ramona Braganza as a new client to Seventh Avenue. Ramona has been identified as being the woman responsible for getting new moms back into shape with her 321 Baby Bulge Be Gone program. She has worked with Halle Berry, Jessica Alba, Anne Hathaway and many other celebrities, has over 20 years in the fitness industry and is recognized as one of the top Personal Trainers in the world among the entertainment industry. Visit her website at www.ramonabraganza.com
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June 2009
Seventh Avenue Literary Agency attended BookExpo USA in New York.
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May 2009
Michael Buckley’s ECCENTRIC EXPLORERS has been named *Winner in the Biography category of the National Indie Excellence Awards (USA, 2009). All rights are available for this outstanding self-published book.
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April 2009
Three new clients have been added to the Seventh Avenue Agency list:
Helena Katz is an award-winning journalist and author with a new Canadian project: STOLEN LIVES: Inside Wrongful Convictions; David Dyment: author, professor, media commentator, Ph.D. in international relations and Canadian politics, and former senior advisor at Foreign Affairs – with his new project DOING THE CONTINENTAL: A Short Guide to a New Relationship with the USA; and Charles Danten, former long-time Montreal veterinarian and author of a bestselling (and controversial) French book Un Vétérinaire en Colère published in 1999 and now translated as ANIMAL SECRETS: The Shadow of the Human Saga: A Critical Appraisal of the Human-Animal Bond.
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March 2009
We welcome a new sub-agent to our list; Martina Torrades of Pontas Literary and Film Agency in Barcelona, Spain will now represent Seventh Avenue projects for both Spanish and French rights.
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Feb 2009
Big Apple China Tuttle-Mori has sold Mainland Chinese rights for How to Sell a Lobster: The Money-Making Secrets of a Streetwise Entrepreneur by Bill Bishop to Zhuhai Publishing House. This marks the sixth translation rights sale for this business book.
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January 2009
ECW Press (Toronto) has bought Michael Clarkson’s The Secret Life of Glenn Gould for publication in 2010. The book will expand on the ground breaking story of Gould’s previous unknown love life which Clarkson broke in Toronto Star newspaper. All rights are available outside Canada.
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The Eyes Television Company (part of Peace Arch Entertainment) has optioned two properties from Seventh Avenue: Trina Read’s recently released Till Sex Do Us Part: Make Your Married Sex Irresistible (Key Porter) and Michael Clarkson’s When Beds Float: Examining the Poltergeist Enigma (previous Key Porter – rights reverted and available)
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October 2008
Seventh Avenue is pleased to add Annette Saliken, author of the self-published phenomenon The Cocktail Party Guide to Global Warming to our client list. Her book was recently ranked #1 bestselling global warming book on amazon.ca. Annette has two more books to come in the series. Visit her website at www.cocktailpartyguidetoglobalwarming.com

September 2008
Skyhorse Publishing (NYC) has bought rights to Ted Hunt’s Ben Hogan’s Magical Device for publication in 2009. Mr Hunt has used the legendary golfer’s unique approach to the swing to extraordinary success – regularly shooting in the 70’s and beating his age.

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July 7th, 2008

We are all sad here at the Seventh Avenue Literary Agency to pass along the news that Bob Ackles, author of The Waterboy (John Wiley 2007), died suddenly yesterday in Vancouver. We have fond memories of this great man and true legend over 40 years in professional football. Our thoughts are with his family at this time. He will be missed.

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June 2008

Seventh Avenue is pleased to welcome three new clients to our list:

Leonard Brody is an author of two books Innovation Nation and Everything I Needed to Know About Business...I Learned From a Canadian (John Wiley). He is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, innovator and business forecaster. He is co-founder of NowPublic.com a pioneer in citizen journalism and recently named one of the top 50 websites by Time magazine.

Karen Luniw is a Coach on the principals of the Law of Attraction. Her podcasts have been downloaded over 800,000 times in over 95 countries and has consistently ranked in the top ten in the health category on iTunes.

Dana Smithers is an interior decorator, interior redesigner and professional home stager. She founded the Canadian ReDesigners Association and teaches workshops, staging courses while starting her own home makeover firm, Sun on My Back Redesigns, in 2001.

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April 2008

We are pleased to announce that GLORIA GOODMAN has joined our agency as a part time agent operating out of Toronto. Gloria has worked at a number of publishing companies including the rights dept at Random House Canada.

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March 2008

Whitecap Books (Vancouver) has bought North American rights for Ron Shewchuk’s third barbecue book tentatively titled Barbecue Secrets Deluxe for publication in 2009. Ron’s first two books have sold over 60,000 copies.

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Romanian rights have been sold for How to Sell a Lobster by Bill Bishop. There have been rights sales in 11 countries for this gem of a sales book.

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Robert Mackwood of Seventh Avenue Literary Agency will be at the London Book fair (table in the rights center) April 14-16. Contact us for booking appointments.

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November 2007
Penguin Canada has bought World English rights to Brendan Brazier’s next book THRIVE FITNESS for release in 2009. The book will expand on the bestselling THE THRIVE DIET (Penguin April 2007) to include various fitness plan levels for every and any age designed by this world class Ironman triathlete. THE THRIVE DIET will be released in the US market in Feb 2008 by Da Capo Lifelong Books(Perseus Publishing).
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Alpina Books has also bought Russian audio rights for MENTAL TRAPS by Andre Kukla
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We’d like to congratulate Terry Murray on receiving The Heritage Toronto Award of Merit for her book FACES ON PLACES published last year by House of Anansi (Toronto)
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October 1st, 2007
Dundurn Press (Toronto) has bought World Rights to Rick Antonson’s travel memoir TO TIMBUKTU FOR A HAIRCUT: A Journey Through West Africa, based on his solo journey a few years ago. Part of the proceeds from the book, due out in 2008, will aid in the preservation of the thousands of endangered Timbuktu manuscripts uncovered in the city.
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Key Porter Books (Toronto) has bought North American rights to Donald Gutstein’s Not a Conspiracy Theory: How Business Uses Propaganda to Manipulate Us and What We Can Do About It. He is a former Simon Fraser University Senior lecturer and co-director of NewsWatch Canada, a media-monitoring project at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC. The book is currently scheduled for Fall 2008.
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August 31st, 2007
The Lyons Press (USA) has bought World English rights to writer/photographer Roy Tanami’s Angling the World: Ten Essential Adventures in Fly Fishing for publication in 2009. Roy Tanami is a premier international outdoor photographer and owner of Ursus Photography Stock Agency. He is the Contributing Editor for Wild on the Fly a Colorado-based magazine of fly fishing travel.

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August 3rd, 2007
Key Porter Books (Canada) has bought North American rights for Trina Read’s ‘Til Sex Do Us Part: Loving Sex After Marriage for publication in Spring 2008. The book will help shift a busy woman’s perspective from looking at sex as a major cause of relationship stress, to seeing sex as a positive, integral and welcome aspect of any relationship. Ms. Read holds a Doctorate in Human Sexuality and is a speaker, author, and frequent media guest on the topic of sex.

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May 23, 2007
John Wiley Publishers (Canada) has bought World English rights for Adrian Raeside’s Return to the Antarctica: A Personal Journey Back to the 1910 Scott Expedition to the South Pole which will chronicle the journey of his grandfather Sir Charles (Silas) Wright the expedition’s Glaciologist and Physicist. He was the lone Canadian and one of the few survivors of the fateful mission. Raeside returns to the South Pole in late 2008 with the book scheduled for 2009 in time for the centennial celebrations.

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September 18th, 2006,
Paperny Films of Vancouver has begun principal photography for a documentary based on William Sampson’s memoir Confessions of an Innocent Man: Torture and Survival in a Saudi Prison. This bestselling book will be available in trade paperback in the fall.

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August 17th, 2006
Raincoast Books (Canada) has bought world rights to Adrian Raeside’s The Rainbow Bridge, an illustrated novel about children coming to terms with the death of a pet. Publication is scheduled for 2007.

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July 17, 2006
Seventh Avenue Literary Agency will be attending the Frankfurt International Book Fair October 4-8. We will have a table in the Rights Center - contact us for booking appointments.

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June 15, 2006
Korean rights have been sold for Bill Bishop’s How to Sell a Lobster to BookSea Publishing by Lena Park of the KCC Agency, Seoul, Korea on behalf of Seventh Avenue Literary

Romanian rights have been sold for Evelyn Berthrong’s What Would Confucious Do? To Editura Dharana Publishers by Adriana Marina of the Simona Kessler Agency in Romania on behalf of Seventh Avenue Literary

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May 14,2006
Seventh Avenue will be at the upcoming BookExpo USA book fair May 19-21 in Washingon DC. Contact us to make a appointment to meet at our table in the Rights Center.

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April 25, 2006
Penguin Canada has bought World English language rights for a revised edition of Thrive: A Guide to Optimal Health & Performance Through Plant-Based Whole Foods by Canadian Ironman Triathlete Champion Brendan Brazier. The original self-published edition of Thrive sold over 15,000 copies.

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March 28, 2006
Ian Mulgrew’s Bud Inc: Inside Canada’s Marijuana Industry (Random House Canada) has been nominated for the National Business Book Award. Winner announced in Toronto April 20. This marks the third time a Seventh Avenue Literary Agency author has been nominated for this Award.

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March 24, 2006
Nick Pitt, Publisher at Warwick Publishing (Toronto), has bought World English language rights to The Happy Neurotic: How Being Fearful And Angst-Ridden Can Lead To Happiness And Success! by David Granirer for publication and distribution in Canada and the United States in fall 2006.

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March 16, 2006
US rights for Barbara Moses’s Dish (to be renamed: Women Confidential: Midlife Women Explode the Myths of Having it All) have been sold to Marlowe & Company New York.

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February 17th, 2006
Key Porter Books (Canada) has bought Seven Lessons from Jacob: A Mother’s Journey by Ellen Schwartz for publication in Fall 2006. Ellen is the mother of Jacob Schwartz diagnosed at four months with Canavan disease, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, and she will tell the heartbreaking story about what she has learned in life from this magnificent boy. Jacob is also the inspiration for the hugely successful Jacob’s Ladder Foundation which awards international grants for ground-breaking work in the research to fight other neurodegenerative diseases.

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February 13th, 2006
Seventh Avenue is pleased to add a new area on our website: Film/TV: which will feature projects optioned/sold and periodically list projects we think will be of interest to the film world.

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February 1st, 2006
William Sampson’s memoir Confessions of an Innocent Man has been shortlisted for the 2006 Draine-Taylor Biography Prize (as part of the Writer’s Trust of Canada Awards). Winners announced March 1st.

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January 19th, 2006
Seventh Avenue is pleased to welcome three more international co-agents representing our client projects: In Israel: Gal Pikarski at the The Pikarski Agency; in Korea: MiSook Hong and the Korean Copyright Center; and in Greece: Nike Davarinou at the Read n’ Right Agency. We look forward to working with them on translation rights in their respective territories.

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January 12th, 2006
Insomniac Press (Toronto) has bought Canadian rights for a debut novel E-Mails From the Edge by Lynne Everatt

E-Mails from the Edge chronicles the corporate oxymoron – work life – with a smile and wink for anyone who’s ever had a really bad day at the office. The novel traces career and burgeoning outrage of Constance Beaman, MBA, a middling manager at a mega-multinational. Constance’s circuitous career is bounced by a kaleidoscopic assortment of bosses, squeezed through the merger ringer, shaken by excruciating exercises in team building and forced to exude passion against her will. Everatt’s stories about Constance debuted in her careers section column of Canada’s national newspaper The Globe & Mail over three years ago and have earned a wild response from readers– ‘totally hilarious”, “laugh out loud brilliant”, and “witty, loopy, giddy, and so close to the truth I winced”.

All rights (excluding Canada English rights) are available

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January 5th, 2006
Sunmark Publishing (Japan) has bought Japanese rights to How to Sell a Lobster: The Money-Making Secrets of a Street-Smart Entrepreneur by Bill Bishop due to be published in Spring 2006 by Key Porter Books in Canada. The deal was arranged by Mario Tauchi of Owl’s Agency in Japan on behalf of the Seventh Avenue Agency.

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November 17th, 2005
McGraw-Hill Publishers (Chicago) have bought World English rights (excluding Canada where Doubleday will be publishing) for Mental Traps by Andre Kukla for a Fall 2006 release.

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November 7th, 2005
Sienna Films (Toronto) has option the documentary TV/film rights for two Michael Clarkson books – Intelligent Fear: How To Make Fear Work for You (2002) and Quick Fixes for Everyday Fears (2004) both published by Key Porter Books (Canada) and Marlowe & Company USA, for a proposed series on “fear”

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October 26, 2005
The Eyes Productions, a division of Peace Arch Entertainment, has option the documentary TV/film rights for When Beds Float: Examining the Poltergeists Enigma by Michael Clarkson scheduled for release by Key Porter (Toronto) books this fall.

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September 12th, 2005
Doubleday Canada has bought Canadian English language rights for Mental Traps for publication in 2006. This small book by Andre Kukla, professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, where he taught courses in both Psychology and Philosophy, systematically surveys the various ways of wasting time. The book identifies a dozen patterns of everyday activity which take up our time and deplete our energy without accomplishing anything of value for us or for anyone else in return Moreover, the advice he gives in Mental Traps is often novel, and sometimes diametrically opposed to conventional or proverbial wisdom of how to deal with whiling away the day.
Rights available.

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Key Porter Books has bought Canadian rights to How To Sell a Lobster: The Money-Making Secrets of a Street-Wise Entrepreneur by Bill Bishop - a Toronto-based author and CEO of Bishop Information Group Inc for publication in Spring 2006. Filled with tips, strategies, and anecdotes, this business book is based on over three decades of experience from an author who has consulted with over 4000 companies.
Rights available.

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August 17, 2005
Palgrave Macmillan USA has bought rights in the following territories: Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand (adding to the original US rights agreement) for Jonathan Manthorpe’s Forbidden Nation: The History of Taiwan for a Fall 2005 release. The hardcover book will distributed in Canada by H.B. Fenn.

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July 5th, 2005
McClelland & Stewart has bought World English rights to Dish: Women at Mid-Life Tell the Truth about What Really Matters in Work, Relationships, and the Rest of Life by Barbara Moses Ph.D (author of Career Intelligence and two other books) for a 2006 publication.


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June 1st, 2005
House of Anansi Press (Toronto) has bought Canadian rights to Terry Murray's Faces on Places: A Grotesque Tour of Toronto, an in-depth historical look (with generous photos) at the unusual gargoyles, gremlins, and other statues steeped within the architecture of the city.

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May 6th, 2005
Doubleday Canada has bought Canadian rights to William Atkinson’s untitled international book about the promises and perils of electronic games with an in-depth look at their neurological effects particularly on younger users. As important as the e-game industry is to the world economy, scientists are starting to see that the games’ social effects dwarf their financial aspects. For publication in 2006 – all other territories available.

May 2nd, 2005
Whitecap Books (Canada) has bought the World rights to Planking Secrets, the follow-up to Canadian barbecue champion Ron Shewchuk’s best-selling Barbecue Secrets for a 2006 publication.


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April 6th, 2005
Congratulations to Ron Shewchuk author of Barbecue Secrets which won a silver award from Vancouver Magazine as one of the three best cookbooks published in 2004.

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March 31st, 2005
Congratulations to Chris Wood, co-author of Blockbusters and Trade Wars: Popular Culture in a Globalized World (with Peter Grant) published by Douglas & McIntyre, named to the short list for the $35,000 Donner Prize for the best Canadian book on public policy.

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March 7th, 2005
Marlowe & Company (New York) have bought World English rights to What Would Confucius Do? by Evelyn Berthrong scheduled for a Fall 2005 release. The book will interpret the teachings and wisdom of Confucius as a guide for the civilized and modern person.

Record Publishing (Brazil) have bought Portuguese/Brazilian rights for Eagles Must Soar by Barry Siskind. The deal was arranged through co-agent Lucia Riff of BMSR.

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January 25th, 2005
Key Porter Books (Canada) has bought World English and French rights to When Beds Float: Examining The Poltergeist Enigma by Michael Clarkson scheduled for a Fall 2005 release.

Beyond Words Publishing (USA) has bought US rights and non-exclusive World rights (excluding Canada) to How Hard Can It Be? ToolGirl’s Favourite Repairs and Projects by Mag Ruffman for Fall 2005 release

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November 29th, 2004
Flurry of activity for Barry Siskind – Korean rights have been sold to Golden Owl Publishing for Eagles Must Soar and Tree Publishing in Thailand have bought Thai rights to both Eagles and Bumblebees Can’t Fly . In addition John Wiley International releases The Power of Exhibit Marketing in January. Translation rights available.

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November 20th, 2004
Harvill Secker (UK) have bought the next two novels by Kenneth J. Harvey, Inside and Blackstrap Hawco. These follow his internationally acquired, prize-winning novel The Town that Forgot How to Breathe.

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September 14th, 2004
McClelland & Stewart (Canada) has bought world rights to two books by William Sampson, the Canadian who was arrested, imprisoned and tortured for nearly three years, and sentenced to death, in Saudi Arabia for a crime he didn’t commit. The first book, due in 2005, will also detail how western governments – including his own country - failed in their attempts to help release Sampson and others falsely accused, instead resorting to an international prisoner swap to howls of outrage in the press and the public.

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September 8th, 2004
Palgrave Macmillan NYC has bought US rights to The Forbidden People: A History of Taiwan by Jonathan Manthorpe for publication in Spring 2005. Rights in all other territories are available through Seventh Avenue.

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August 10th, 2004
Seventh Avenue is pleased to welcome the Lorella Belli Agency representing the UK and Agencie Litteraire Lora Fountain representing France, Russia and Spain to our list of rights co-agents around the world. Our Seventh Avenue client properties are now represented in 17 countries.

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August 5th, 2004
Amacom Books, New York, has bought World rights to Outsourcing America: The Future of the American Worker by Rochester Institute of Technology Professor Ron Hira and Simon Fraser University Professor Andy Hira for publication in 2005.

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July 1st, 2004

Seventh Avenue Literary had an extremely busy June attending BookExpo Fairs in Chicago and Toronto. Watch for announcements of new book deals and new clients here soon!

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May 20th, 2004
Feature film rights to Marsha Erb’s Lord of the Ring: The Stu Hart Story (ECW Press) about the remarkable patriarch of the Hart wrestling clan have been optioned to Jeni Piepgrass at Alberta Filmworks.

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May 6th, 2004
Penguin Canada has bought Canadian rights to Room For Thought by Avi Friedman for publication in 2005.
Subtitled Rethinking Home and Community Design, this a personal examination of the issues that make up the foundation of our built environment in North America and elsewhere in the world by the award-winning architect and Professor at the School of Architecture at McGill University in Montreal.

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April 16th, 2004
ECW Press in Toronto will be publishing Beware The Grieving Warrior this fall - an inspiring story of one man's "David vs Goliath" fight against the Canadian medical establishment and to hold it accountable for the inexplicable death of his 11 year old daughter in a local hospital. Seventh Avenue author Larry Hicock chronicles the intense personal battle of John Lewis in this emotionally charged book. Film and Televisions rights available.

William Illsey Atkinsons's Nanocosm (Viking/Penguin Canada) has been shortlisted for the 2003 Science in Society Award. The Canadian Science Writers' Association will announce the winner on Canada Book Day, April 23, 2004

February 12th, 2004
Penguin Canada has bought Canadian rights to Song of the Azaleas a stunning memoir about a life of a secret recruiter for the Communists in Hong Kong who for 25 years sacrificed his one true love, his career (as a brilliant ballet dancer), and most of all the welfare of his mother (a remarkable and courageous doctor) to the Party all the while keeping his clandestine activities from her even while at her deathbed by Kenneth Ore for publication in 2005. All other rights and territories available.

February 6th, 2004
Our agency is pleased to welcome two new clients to our author list.
Adrian Dorst is a noted West Coast photographer and an accomplished naturalist and ornithologist. His work has appeared in over 70 books.
Peijian Shen is a practitioner of Chinese massage. His first book Massage For Pain Relief has sold over 140,000 copies and been translated into 10 languages.

January 15th, 2004
Oriental Press has bought Chinese language rights for Bumblebees Can't Fly. The sale was made through co-agent Big Apple Tuttle-Mori in China. This makes the ninth translation for this international bestseller.

December 23, 2003
We congratulate Trevor Carolan whose book Return to Stillness: Twenty Years with a Tai Chi Master has just been named one of the top spiritual titles of 2003 by New York-based magazine Spirituality & Health.

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December 15th, 2003
One of our extreme travel writers and authors
Michael Buckley has captured the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award Bronze Medal for Best Travel Book for Heartlands which chronicle his many journeys through the Tibetan world. The SATW (Society of American Travel Writers) upon bestowing the award called Michael "...a gifted writer..." and Heartlands" ...artful, entertaining, but deadly serious at times, this is a stunningly complex book." Heartlands was published by Summersdale UK and both North American and translation rights are available.

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December 12, 2003
Random House Canada has bought world rights for a major new book investigating the business model and structure of one of the newest and most successful enterprises in this country – Canada’s burgeoning marijuana industry - to be written by Ian Mulgrew. The book will be published in 2005.

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October 22, 2003
Welcome to the launch of the Seventh Avenue Literary Agency website. For information on who we represent, go to our Author List. For rights for projects we've sold, check out Rights Available. If you are a writer seeking representation, have a look at our Submission page for guidelines. Please check back frequently for announcements of deals, new authors and rights available.

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John Wiley Canada have bought the English Language rights to three books by Barry Siskind, Bumblebees Can't Fly, Eagles Can Soar, and an untitled book on how to make your next trade-show the best sales opportunity ever.

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We are delighted to welcome Suzette Mayr. Published widely in literary journals, and with two novels nominated for awards in Canada and internationally, her writing has been described as original, quick-witted, seductive and compelling.

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November brings an important occasion as Seventh Avenue with sister companies National Speakers Bureau and Contemporary Communications celebrate 30 years in business.