Award-winning young adult novelist Vicki Grant’s adult debut, THESE ARE THE FIREWORKS, following a daughter who believes her parents had the perfect marriage, but when her father dies, her mother’s behavior leads her to suspect otherwise, pitched as for fans of Lucy Foley, Bad Sisters and The Perfect Couple, to Whitney Moran at Nimbus, for publication Spring 2026 , by Samantha Haywood at Transatlantic Agency (Canada).
Vicki Grant’s novels have won the Red Maple Award, the Arthur Ellis Award and CBC’s Young Canada Reads, as well as been shortlisted for the Edgar, CLA Children’s Book of the Year and numerous Forest of Reading awards. Her novel, 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You, has been translated into 17 languages and optioned for film. Publishers’ Weekly called A Green Velvet Secret, her latest middle-grade mystery, a “winning novel,” with “quirky, fully-fleshed characters and a tender first-person narration.” Before graduating to kidlit, she worked as an advertising copywriter at Saatchi & Saatchi and Chiat\Day then wrote scripts for numerous pre-school programs including Big Comfy Couch and her own Gemini-winning series Scoop & Doozie. Vicki lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Vicki is represented by Samantha Haywood.
Congratulations, Vicki!