#FTRWeek: Keep Calm and Read On

Web Banner from freedomtoread.ca. // Barbara Klunder (illustration), Reva Pomer (design), Webcom (printing) Another day in Freedom to Read week. What have you been reading? If you need some motivation, we have another concerned letter that you have to read! The writer worries about highly impressionable teens, damn cool pirates and rustlers, and some bad hygiene from church men. Dear Five Rivers: My fourteen-year-old son is not much of a reader, so I was very…

Dr. H. A. Hargreaves inducted into the CSFFA Hall of Fame

Dr. H.A. Hargreaves We are very pleased for, and proud of, Dr. H.A. Hargreaves’ induction into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame for 2015. The CSFFA HALL OF FAME recognizes the Outstanding Achievements that have contributed to the stature of Science Fiction and Fantasy. It can be awarded to Canadian Writers, Publishers, Editors, Poets, Artists, Graphic Novelists, Actors, Producers, Musicians/Filkers, Convention organizers, Fans, Scientists, Astronauts and others . This year there were…

Five Rivers 5-Book Launch in Victoria, BC

On the hot summer’s day of  June 27th, authors Paula Johanson, Dave Duncan and Nowick Gray held a collaborative book launch for: Nowick Gray’s quintessential Northern mystery, Hunter’s Daughter   Paula Johanson’s biography, King Kwong: the China Clipper who broke the NHL colour barrier, released May 1st; and the newly revised and expanded edition of her fantasy, Tower in the Crooked Wood, released June 1st. Dave Duncan’s 50th book, the fantasy mystery, The Eye of…

Five from Five: Five Rivers’ Book Launch in Victoria BC

Please join us at 3:00 pm, Saturday, June 27th, at Royal Canadian Region Britannia Branch as Five Rivers launches five of our spring releases. It’s a chance to meet and greet (and get your book signed) by our authors: Paula Johanson, Dave Duncan and Nowick Gray.  At this book launch, we are proud to present: Nowick Gray’s quintessential Northern mystery, Hunter’s Daughter   Paula Johanson’s biography King Kwong: the China Clipper who broke the NHL…

Omnibus version of Dave Duncan’s Runner Series releases June 1, 2015

Five Rivers is pleased to announce the release, June 1, 2015, of the omnibus version of Dave Duncan’s YA fantasy trilogy of novellas, entitled The Adventures of Ivor. ISBN 9781927400890, 6 x 9 trade paperback, 310 pgs. $24.99eISBN 9781927400906, $9.99 In the preface, Dave Duncan writes: For this edition I have added a brief epilogue and taken out a few short repetitions. (How often do you need to be told that Ivor has nine older…