Five Star review for 88 at LibraryThing

Over at LibraryThing our first review has come in for Michael R. Fletcher’s 88.  I really liked this book. I was drawn into this edgy futuristic world via the heavy detail and action. Several of the characters became my literary companions as I read more and more pages until I felt like I had known them for months. When the book ended, I wished only for a few more chapters to keep it going ……

K.L. Neidecker of The Blaagh reviews Fletcher’s 88

K.L. Neidecker over at The Blaagh gives a stunning review of Michael R. Fletcher’s 88.  Time for some SF goodness. My day-job has me doing a lot of two things: Dri­ving, and run­ning away from dogs loosed on me after cut­ting some­ones cable off. Good car­dio, that sec­ond bit. While dri­ving, I love to lis­ten to pod­casts via my Android phone. I have no choice, as my area has only three types of radio sta­tions: Clas­sic rock (not bad,…

Publishing in the New Millennium

Any of you who know me, also know I’ve bleated on for some years regarding the profound changes occurring in publishing, how it is the traditional method of publishing and bringing books to market is obsolete and simply not viable in today’s global, technology-driven economy. Over the past five years we’ve structured Five Rivers Publishing so that: We do not rely on sales from bricks and mortar stores As much as a decade ago I…

Glowing review from Britain’s SFCrowsnest for 88

A glowing review showed up today on Britain’s SF Crowsnest for Michael R. Fletcher’s debut SF novel, 88. Rod MacDonald writes: This book, ‘88’, seems to have it all as far as action is concerned. Coming from Canada, we have a novel by Michael R Fletcher, which on first inspection appears to be a little like Vin Diesel’s ‘Babylon A.D.’ with also bits of ‘Resident Evil’ chucked in, such is its flavour, although on closer…

Nate Hendley to appear at Barrie Public Library

Nate Hendley Five Rivers author, Nate Hendley, will appear Thursday, May 16, 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Barrie Public Library, downtown in the Angus Room. He will be discussing his book, Steven Truscott: Decades of Injustice, which chronicles the tragic, and in the end triumphant, story of the wrongful conviction of a small-town Ontario 14 year old boy. Format Print $14.99 CADeBook $4.99 CAD Hendley’s book will be on sale at the end of…