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Cathy Crowe is a well-known advocate for the homeless who worked as a street nurse for over 20 years. From 2004 – 2009, she was the recipient of the Atkinson Charitable Foundation’s Economic Justice Award with the mandate to work both locally and nationally on issues related to homelessness. Her groundbreaking book, Dying For A Home, was one of the many positive outcomes that the Atkinson support made possible. Cathy has executive produced two films on family homelessness in Canada and is part of a group filing a constitutional charter challenge on the right to housing.
Since 1988 we have built our reputation as an internationally respected agency on the belief that our clients, and their concerns, are paramount. There is more to being a literary agent than merely ‘sealing the deal’, and we pride ourselves on our experience in working editorially with our authors when necessary before taking them to market — a process that can make the difference between just any offer, and a terrific offer!
Rob Tripp is an award-winning investigative journalist who has been covering crime for more than 25 years. He has worked for CBC Radio, the Toronto Star, the National Post, Montreal Gazette, the Kingston Whig-Standard and other newspapers. He has won Canada’s most prestigious prize in daily newspaper journalism, a National Newspaper Award, and has been nominated a further five times, including two nominations in 2009 for his coverage of the Shafia murder case, the subject of his first book.
Ariana Franklin is the pseudonym of the well-known award-winning historical novelist Diana Norman. Her award-winning novels about Adelia Aguilar—the Thirteenth-Century medica whose forensic gifts have made her invaluable to Henry ll—have won appeared on international best-seller lists. In 2010 Diana was awarded the prestigious CWA Dagger in the Library for a superb body of work.