During the interwar period, Édouard Garand developed the niche of popular novels for mass distribution with the "Le Roman canadien" collection. The publishing house launched frequent calls for unpublished manuscripts, to which a large number of women responded. The study of the correspondence of the publishing house for the period 1923-1926 allows us to question the position of these women authors, whether or not they were finally published, and brings to light the important work of negotiation carried out by these women during the signing of publishing contracts and their negotiations with Édouard Garand.