Rights and Permissions
Orca Book Publishers is Western Canada's premier children's publisher. With over 350 titles in print and more than 60 new titles a year, Orca publishes award-winning, best-selling books in a number of genres.
Foreign Rights
Foreign rights have been sold for many of our titles all over the world, including to Australia, Great Britain, Germany, Denmark, Korea, Japan, Latvia and many other countries. World rights (excluding North America) to many titles are available and are represented by Samantha Haywood of Transatlantic Literary Agency (TLA). For information on titles from any of the publishers we distribute please contact the publishers directly (see list below).
Download international rights catalogues from TLA:
Film/Television Rights
For information on film and television rights, or to inquire about options, please contact Sarah Cooper at The Saint Agency in Toronto.
Rights/Permissions
To enquire about anthology rights, excerpts, online usage or anything else pertaining to copyright please email the permissions department.
Many of Canada's most successful children's authors publish with Orca, including:
The list includes:
The main warehouse and editorial office are located in Victoria, British Columbia. From a warehouse near Bellingham, Washington, Orca distributes their own titles and those of seven other Canadian publishers into the United States.
Orca prides itself on publishing Canadian authors and bringing them to a wider market. The international recognition garnered has shown that Canadian authors can compete on a world stage while writing for, and about, Canadians.
Foreign rights have been sold to many of our titles all over the world, including to Australia, Great Britain, Germany, Denmark, Korea, Japan, Latvia and many other countries. World rights (excluding North America) to many titles are available and are represented by Samantha Haywood of Transatlantic Literary Agency. For more information on rights and permissions, including foreign rights, film and television rights and permsissions please click here.
Orca Book Publishers is a long-time member of the Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia and the Association of Canadian Publishers and is committed to the ideal that a healthy BC- and Canadian-owned and controlled book
publishing industry is essential to the educational, social, cultural
and economic life of the province and the country.
Media Contact:
Andrew Wooldridge,
P. 1-800-210-5277
F. 1-877-408-1551
Publishers Distributed:
In Canada:
In the US:
Author and Illustrator Submission Guidelines.
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