Founded in September 2009, The Cooke Agency International (Cooke International) represents foreign rights for Random House of Canada Ltd., McClelland & Stewart Ltd., The Cooke Agency, and Tundra Books.
With its clients, Cooke International aims to bring the best of the world - whether it is literary fiction, genre fiction, practical non-fiction, narrative-driven non-fiction in the areas of science, history, popular culture or children’s books - to the world.
Suzanne Brandreth
Director, Subsidiary Rights
Suzanne has worked in publishing for seventeen years, first as an independent bookseller, an editor at Doubleday Canada, and, most recently, as an agent and subsidiary rights director for The Cooke Agency, where she helped place international rights to Dr. Piers Steel's The Procrastination Equation in thirteen countries, Emily White's Lonely: A Memoir in six countries, CS Richardson's The End of the Alphabet in thirteen countries. She joined Cooke International in September 2009 as subsidiary rights director. An insatiable reader, Suzanne reads across categories, fiction and non-fiction in equal measure - be it family sagas, contemporary fiction, literary thrillers, self-help, memoirs, or cutting-edge thinking in the areas of science, or psychology.
Ron Eckel
Executive Agent, Subsidiary Rights
A graduate of Simon Fraser University's Master of Publishing program and a fourteen-year veteran of Canadian publishing, Ron Eckel began his career writing for and editing Hockey Times, an independent (and now defunct) amateur hockey magazine in Waterloo, Ontario. Ron worked with Penguin Group Canada, Westwood Creative Artists, and Random House of Canada Limited before joining Cooke International. Among Ron's many rights deals are the sale of Irshad Manji's The Trouble with Islam Today into twenty-five territories, as well as significant foreign rights deals for Neil Smith's Bang Crunch, and Linden MacIntyre's recent Giller winner The Bishop's Man. Ron devours equal amounts of fiction and non-fiction but is particularly drawn to historical novels, contemporary literature and any biography, authorized or not, of the Ramones.
With its clients, Cooke International aims to bring the best of the world - whether it is literary fiction, genre fiction, practical non-fiction, narrative-driven non-fiction in the areas of science, history, popular culture or children’s books - to the world.
Director, Subsidiary Rights
Suzanne has worked in publishing for seventeen years, first as an independent bookseller, an editor at Doubleday Canada, and, most recently, as an agent and subsidiary rights director for The Cooke Agency, where she helped place international rights to Dr. Piers Steel's The Procrastination Equation in thirteen countries, Emily White's Lonely: A Memoir in six countries, CS Richardson's The End of the Alphabet in thirteen countries. She joined Cooke International in September 2009 as subsidiary rights director. An insatiable reader, Suzanne reads across categories, fiction and non-fiction in equal measure - be it family sagas, contemporary fiction, literary thrillers, self-help, memoirs, or cutting-edge thinking in the areas of science, or psychology.
Executive Agent, Subsidiary Rights
A graduate of Simon Fraser University's Master of Publishing program and a fourteen-year veteran of Canadian publishing, Ron Eckel began his career writing for and editing Hockey Times, an independent (and now defunct) amateur hockey magazine in Waterloo, Ontario. Ron worked with Penguin Group Canada, Westwood Creative Artists, and Random House of Canada Limited before joining Cooke International. Among Ron's many rights deals are the sale of Irshad Manji's The Trouble with Islam Today into twenty-five territories, as well as significant foreign rights deals for Neil Smith's Bang Crunch, and Linden MacIntyre's recent Giller winner The Bishop's Man. Ron devours equal amounts of fiction and non-fiction but is particularly drawn to historical novels, contemporary literature and any biography, authorized or not, of the Ramones.