Special Limited Time Offer

Starting today and running through until June 6, 2009, Five Rivers is pleased to announce a special offer on Advance Orders of my newest novel, From Mountains of Ice. For every advance order received through Five Rivers’ secure shopping cart, you’ll receive a free signed copy of my anthology of short, speculative fiction, And the Angels Sang. Bring your order up to $40.00CDN, and you’ll also receive free shipping. This offer is not advertised through…

Five Rivers Books Now Available through Espresso

I’ve just finished signing an agreement with Lightning Source Inc (LSI, the print on demand company we use for all our publications) that will now make available all Five Rivers’ titles through the most innovative piece of printing technology since the Gutenberg Press — the Espresso Book Machine (EBM). What this means to the average person is wherever there’s an Espresso, they’ll be able to order a copy of any book in Five Rivers’ (or…

Pics in from Seminar in Orangeville

Many thanks to Patricia Gallant, Secretary of the Headwaters Writers’ Guild (http://www.owg.netfirms.com/), for this image taken during the seminar and signing Paul Lima (http://www.paullima.com/) and I did at Coles in Orangeville, Ontario on May 16. You can catch up with Paul, Saturday, June 20 at Chapters, 2225 Bloor Street (at Runnymede), Toronto, Ontario from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Paul will be doing a free seminar based on his book, How to Write a Non-fiction Book…

July Event Confirmed

I’ll be appearing Saturday, July 25, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. at Chapters, New Fairview Mall, 285 Geneva, St. Catharines, ON L2N 2G1. Readings from And the Angels Sang and Shadow Song will be followed by a question and answer period and book signing. Hope to see you there. To view all of Five Rivers events you can go to the calendar on our website http://www.5rivers.org/contents/en-ca/d91.html, or follow my own events through www.BookTour.com.

Hard Economic Times

The following article by Dr. Robert Runte is reprinted from On Spec Magazine, #76, Vol. 21, no. 1, Spring, 2009. Layoffs. Fear of massive layoffs. It’s the fear, more than the reality, that’s driving the current recession, at least in Canada. And it’s that fear that has allowed corporations to extort massive government bailouts. It is worth noting in the midst of the current crisis that nobody is considering bailing out the arts, even though…