Profile Series: Alicia Hendley

Alicia Hendley came to Five Rivers’ attention when she submitted her debut novel, A Subtle Thing, to us for consideration. We liked what we saw and are pleased to be releasing the novel later this year. As part of your introduction to Alicia Hendley, we thought you might appreciate this interview we recently conducted with her. Q: The Hendley household appears to have been an extremely creative, vibrant and literate one in which to grow,…

Smashwords Discount and Events

Smashwords DiscountFor a limited time Five Rivers is offering a 25% discount on all our eBooks at Smashwords. Simply follow through the prompts and your coupon will be applied. All our books are available in HTML, Javascript, mobi, ePub, PDF, RTF, LRF, PDB and plain text. In short, whatever your reader, there’s a Five Rivers’ eBook version for you.http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/5rivers Espresso Book SigningSaturday, March 27 Lorina Stephens will be the guest author at an Espresso Book…

Profile Series: Deb Salisbury

We’re pleased to present the second author Five Rivers published, Deb Salisbury, editor of Elephant’s Breath & London Smoke: Historical Colour Names, Definitions & Uses. Q: As a little girl, you used to make dresses for your sister’s dolls, which led to an adult love of historic fashion and the recreating of it, so that in 1994 you established Mantua-Maker Historical Sewing Patterns. Was that journey a conscious one, or something that simply evolved over…

Profile Series: Nate Hendley

In our continuing Profile Series, Five Rivers presents, Nate Hendley, author and freelance journalist. Q: You originally majored in Cultural Studies at Trent University. Why Cultural Studies? Nate: The honest answer is that I couldn’t major in Political Science, because I neglected to take some important pre-requisite courses. I really had no idea what I was doing at university and sort of fell into Cultural Studies because it seemed interesting. I didn’t want to major…

Amazon in Canada discussion

As many of you know, Amazon recently announced its intention to place a physical footprint in Canada by applying to the Department of Canadian Heritage to ‘open a new Canadian business’. Since then both independent and chain booksellers have made loud protests against the global giant further increasing its Canadian presence. Publisher’s Weekly reported: Heather Reisman, CEO of Canada’s dominant chain Indigo Books & Music, has said the foreign ownership rules in the book industry…