Episode 24: How to score a book deal, with Janice Zawerbny, Executive Editor at HarperCollins Canada

Cat chats with Janice Zawerbny, Executive Editor at HarperCollins Canada, about what it takes to get a book deal, the writer-editor relationship and other book publishing frequently asked questions.

Janice Zawerbny is Executive Editor at HarperCollins Canada. Janice has been an editor for more than 25 years in Canada. Most recently, she was the editor of Five Little Indians by Michelle Good, which was nominated for the Giller Prize and the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and won the Amazon First Novel Award, the Governor General's Award and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. Before joining HarperCollins, Janice started a non-fiction imprint at Biblioasis called the Untold Lives series, which published Mark Bourrie's book, Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre Esprit Radisson, which won the Charles Taylor Prize for Creative Non-Fiction in 2020. Janice was the fiction editor at House of Anansi press for three years, where she edited and acquired The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall, which was a finalist for the Giller Prize, and The Break by Katherena Vermette, which won the Amazon First Novel Award and was a finalist for numerous other awards. Janice is also the cofounder of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, the first transnational award for women writers in Canada and the US.