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Sequel to Type releases April 1, 2015

The sequel to Alicia Hendley’s suspenseful YA near-future novel Type, entitled Type2, releases April 1, 2015 in both print and eBook formats. ISBN 9781927400852 $19.99eISBN 9781927400869 $4.99 The dynamic cover is by Five Rivers’ Art Director, Jeff Minkevics. We thought fans would be interested to read about the process behind the cover design, and so tapped the depths of Jeff’s prodigiously creative mind. JM: The challenge behind the cover for Type2 was the same sort…

Thus the marathon begins

Here we are; first Monday of 2015. Robert and I have been hard at it from the first bell of the year. Robert’s working on several manuscripts, a few of which are new offerings from Dave Duncan. I’m presently finalizing the layout for the third book in the Shakespeare for Slackers series, this one a weird and wonderful interpretation of Macbeth.  Later in the week I’ll be reading a fascinating SF submission, finalize the last…

Why We Published: Type, by Alicia Hendley

Alicia Hendley first made her publishing debut with A Subtle Thing in 2010. Alicia Hendley (right)with brother Nate Hendley (left)at Q Space launch of Type. In 2012 she presented Five Rivers with a YA novel based upon a society structured around the tenets of Jungian Myers-Briggs typology, gone horribly wrong. The concept was enough to pique my interest. What followed in Hendley’s first draft demonstrated a very strong narrative which only required minor revision and…

LibraryThing reviews: Type, and 88

Two great reviews showed up on LibraryThing, as a result of their Early Readers Program, for Alicia Hendley’s Type, and Michael R. Fletcher’s 88. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. What an amazing novel. Alicia Hendley is an awesome writer. I was hooked from the beginning and didn’t want to put this book down until I finished, I believe this story will stay with me for a long time to come. I received this…