A press release from The Cooke Agency:

Adrienne Kerr at Penguin Canada has acquired World rights to Eric McCormack‘s long awaited novel, Cloud, a gripping, darkly imagined story about the search for identity and the nature of love in a world where menace hovers at every turn. Ron Eckel of The Cooke Agency arranged the deal.

McCormack’s sixth novel, this will be his first to be published in over a decade. His book The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women was nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, and he’s also been shortlisted for the 1988 Commonwealth Writers Prize, the 1990 People’s Prize for Fiction, and won the 1999 Spring Book Award from the Scottish Arts Council.

McCormack was born in a small village in Scotland. He moved to Canada in 1966 and attended the University of Manitoba. Since 1970 he has taught English at St. Jerome’s University, Waterloo, Ontario, specializing in 17th-century and contemporary literature. He now lives in Kingston, Ontario.