We’re thrilled that Page Two was featured in the Globe and Mail‘s Report on Business this week in an article about professional self-publishing and book publishing innovation. “There’s actually a whole spectrum of ways of getting your book into the right hands, and to us, it’s about publishing strategically,” says Page Two principal Jesse Finkelstein.
Vancouver-based publishing agency Page Two Strategies has found success with the first commissioned title released on its new in-house imprint, Page Two Books. The Unofficial Pokémon Go! Tracker’s Guide: Finding the Rarest Pokémon and Strangest PokéStops on the Planet ‚ conceived by Page Two co-founders Trena White and Jesse Finkelstein‚ has sold 30,000 copies of its initial print run in Canada, with the remaining 30,000 to be sold across the U.S., U.K., Asia‚ and Australia.
We’re proud to announce that our client Sonja Larsen has made the shortlist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, for her memoir, Red Star Tattoo: My Life As a Girl Revolutionary.
We are pleased to welcome award-winning writer Elaine Kalman Naves, represented by principal Jesse Finkelstein in alliance with Transatlantic Agency.
Goose Lane Editions announced today that it will publish Secret Life: The Jian Ghomeshi Investigation on October 4, 2016. Authored by acclaimed Toronto Star investigative reporter Kevin Donovan, Secret Life will provide the behind-the-scenes account of one of the most explosive investigative news stories of the decade.
Page Two client Dr. Deborah MacNamara – author of the recently-published Rest, Play, Grow – spoke to the United Nations yesterday, June 1, 2016 at a special Conference on “The Importance of Fatherhood and Motherhood for Integral Development.” We’re delighted to share that the conference can be streamed via UN Web TV.
Joining the Page Two team as our new, multitasking publishing associate is Gabrielle (“Gabi”) Narsted, who will support authors’ book projects from conception to publication.
This weekend Pailin Chongchitnant landed on the Globe and Mail bestseller list with her gorgeous cookbook, Hot Thai Kitchen. The book gives authentic Thai recipes that anyone can try at home and explains the basic principles that underlie Thai dishes.
Simplified Chinese rights to Daniel Jones’s Emotional Promiscuity: The Science of Serial Romance have been sold to Beijing Standway Books Co. by Susie Li of Andrew Nurnberg Associates International Ltd., on behalf of Trena White, principal of Page Two and associate agent of the Transatlantic Agency.
Last month, Page Two principals Jesse Finkelstein and Trena White attended the Vancouver launch of client Sonja Larsen’s Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary.
As the photos below demonstrate, the launch was a huge success.
Oxford University Press United States senior editor Abby Gross has acquired world English rights, excluding Canada, to Emotional Promiscuity: The Science of Serial Romance, by Dr. Daniel Jones, the world’s leading researcher into why some people tend to fall in love fast, easily, and often.
This week marks the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the storm that devastated the historic city of New Orleans and surrounding areas of the Gulf Coast. In the midst of many retrospective books, articles, and opinion pieces that are appearing in news media around the world, an elegant book of essays and photographs is being released, which captures some of the most moving accounts of the storm’s aftermath we’ve seen so far.
