Rights and Permissions

Orca prides itself on publishing Canadian authors and bringing them to a wider audience. With over 500 award-winning and best-selling books in print and more than 60 new titles a year, we have much to offer the global market.

Foreign rights for many Orca titles have been sold 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 French Canadian and Chinese rights please email Andrew Wooldridge.

Download our international rights catalogs

• Fall 2011 Hot List
  Includes our most recent titles for juveniles and young adults.
  
  
• Complete Rights Catalog
  Includes complete rights information for all Orca Book Publishers titles.
  
  
• Picturebooks (Ages 4-8)
  An extensive list of illustrated stories for kids ages four to eight.
  
  
• Juvenile (Ages 8-13)
  Fiction for ages eight to thirteen (contemporary, historical, fantasy, mystery, graphic novels).
  
  
• Orca Currents (Ages 10-14)
  Short high interest novels with themes relevant to middle-school aged readers (contemporary, humor, sports, adventure).
  
  
• Orca Sports (Ages 10+)
  Short high-interest novels with exciting sports action and suspense. Ages ten and up.
  
  
• Young Adult (Ages 12+)
  Compelling fiction with themes relevant to teens (contemporary, historical, fantasy, mystery).
  
  
• Orca Soundings (Ages 12+)
  Short high-interest novels with contemporary themes, written expressly for teens reading below grade level.
  


• Nonfiction
  Nonfiction titles great for use in the classroom.
  


• Rapid Reads
  Contemporary, short novels for adults, written written between a 2.0 and 4.5 reading level.

Rights/Permissions
To enquire about anthology rights, excerpts, online usage or anything else pertaining to copyright please email the permissions department.