Reviews from The Midwest Book Review for Paul Lima

Professional writer and communications instructor Paul Lima presents two invaluable guides, references and aides, for authors and aspiriging authors of all skill and experience levels. (re)Discover the Joy of Creative Writing (ISBN 9780986563003, $14.95) features almost fifty exercies to stimulate ideas, practice one’s craft, and (re-)experience the joy of scripting believable characters, literary world, and soul-searching insights. From word associations to tapping the power of childhood memories to ‘What if?’ speculation journal exercises, (re)Discover the…

Profile Series: Paul Lima

As part of Five Rivers’ Profile series, we’re pleased to feature our first author interview, with the first author we signed, Paul Lima. Q: You’ve been writing and teaching about writing professionally now for over 25 years. My understanding is you started out as a copywriter for an electronics company? How does a writer make the leap from a steady, if boring, pay cheque to an independent and successful freelancer? Paul: A writer makes the…

Seven Book Agreement with Paul Lima

This morning Five Rivers reached an agreement to publish seven books by well-known Toronto-based freelance writer, Paul Lima.   In January 2009, Five Rivers released Lima’s How to Write a Non-fiction Book in 60 Days. To date it has gone on to sell almost 700 copies in Canada, the US and UK, and has constitently held the top 100 spot in its category on both UK and Canadian Amazon sites. It is available through online…

First Appearance of Smashwords Distribution

In my daily check of various marketing strategies Five Rivers employs, I was very pleased to find today the distribution we chose to undertake through Smashwords has taken effect. All our books are now available, in all digital formats, through Barnes and Noble. This is the first of many channels into which Five Rivers eBooks will stream. In the coming weeks you should be able to find our digital books at Amazon and Sony, and…

The Little Book that Could

When Paul Lima came to me with his book, How to Write a Non-fiction Book in 60 Days, I thought sure, why not, although I must admit to some skepticism that the book would do well. With literally tens of thousands of books out there on the craft of writing, written by people with far more public profile than Paul (sorry, Paul, but it’s hard to compete with the likes of Stephen King et al),…