Big news broke yesterday in Canada as one of the country’s coolest presses (Anansi) loses its publisher (Lynn Henry) to one of the country’s biggest presses (Double Day). Anansi is no small lit press anymore, but it is independent, and something of the bridge between small and large here—plus, it has a rep for innovative publicity and snagging great writers that compete with the best in the world. A few years ago, I couldn’t have imagined them surviving the loss of the editor responsible for much of their cred, Martha Sharpe, but they did, and I suspect Lynn was a large part of that. So good luck!

“Lynn is known as both an excellent communicator and a strong and collaborative leader, and I am confident that we will all benefit from the breadth and depth of experience she brings,” said Kristin Cochrane, publisher of Doubleday Canada, in a statement. Cochrane became publisher of Doubleday since last December, when Maya Mavjee left to become president and publisher of Crown Publishing Group in New York.

“My understanding, and of course I haven’t walked through the door yet, my understand is that I’m going to work very closely with Kristin, but really looking at the editorial side of Doubleday,” she said. “The three wonderful senior editors there are going to be reporting to me, and I’m also going to be developing my own list, and I’m going to work with everyone on acquisitions, and on the editorial side of things. Just trying to really build on the successes that Doubleday already has.”

Over the course of a 15-year career, Henry has worked with authors including Lisa Moore, Peter Behrens, Gil Adamson, Bill Gaston, Colin McAdam, and Rawi Hage, whose debut novel De Niro’s Game was plucked from a slush pile and went on to win the Dublin IMPAC Prize.