Chat with Lorina Stephens

In our continuing efforts to allow fans and readers access to our authors, we decided to open another discussion on Facebook with the woman who started it all here at Five Rivers, author and publisher, Lorina Stephens. Here’s your opportunity to query Lorina about any of her books, the writing process, and publishing. The discussion will be ongoing. However, three participants will receive a copy of one of her books, in either print or digital…

Lorina Stephens at Chapters, London

This coming Saturday, November 27, our own publisher and author, Lorina Stephens, will appear at Chapters, 86 Fanshawe Park Road East, London, ON, between 1:00 and 4:00 p.m. Marking the last book signing in her promotional tour for her cultural fantasy novel, From Mountains of Ice, the event will be an excellent opportunity for visitors to pick up a signed copy for either themselves or someone on their gift list. Called ‘an entertaining and original…

Virtual Discussions with Five Rivers Authors

Click through to Kobo Two ongoing discussions are taking place during the next two weeks at Five Rivers Facebook page, and for visitors it’s an opportunity to ask all writing-related questions of Nate Hendley, author of Al Capone: Chicago’s King of Crime and Motivate to Create: a guide for writers, and his sister, Alicia Hendley, author of the debut novel, A Subtle Thing. The discussion with Alicia ends this week, with a draw on Friday,…

Refusing to acknowledge modern publishing

This week the literary world was astonished by news of the Giller Prize winner, Johanna Skibsrud for her novel, The Sentimentalists. Not only is she a relatively unknown debut author, but published by a small, indie house, Gaspereau Press. It’s a coup of legendary proportions, now tarnished by Gaspereau’s own refusal to acknowledge what many indie presses embrace — that the only way we can hold territory in the marketplace is to be sure we can…

In Remembrance

For relatives in the Stephens family: For Duncan Albert Long, June 24, 1915 – March 24, 1944. Served in WWII. RAF pilot shot down over Germany, recipient of Distinguished Flying Medal. For Duncan’s brothers, John and Jim who served in the British army and navy during WWII. For Thomas Cecil Phillips, August 14, 1922 – December, 2008. Served in WWII. Served with the Gloucester Regiment, British Army WWII, Burma, March 1944, and returned for demobilization…