According to Publishers Weekly, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author has signed a three-book deal with Ecco, for two novels and a story collection. Daniel Halpern, Ecco publisher, closed the deal for U.S. rights. Ford’s first book for Ecco will tentatively be titled Canada, and is slated for a 2010 publication. Halpern, who called Ford “as fine a writer as we have in this country,” added that bringing the author into the fold is, in many respects, an editorial dream come true. “If I had been asked which writer I’d like most to have at Ecco, Richard Ford would be at the top of that list.”