So you’re considering submitting

February 1 to 14 is Five Rivers’ open submission period. What will likely receive favourable consideration this year? Historical and mainstream fiction and non-fiction based on the Canadian experience. It’s that simple. Our catalogue of SF&F is quite full, and any submissions in those genres will have to be truly original and push the envelope. Humour, the likes of A Town Called Forget will most certainly pique our interest, as will mystery of the calibre of Hunter’s…

Forward into 2017

Well look at that. Another new year. What’s in store at Five Rivers Publishing this year? Oh my, such a lot. We’re building on the successes of previous years with a line-up of new releases we think are going to fascinate you. February 1 First up is a remarkable and prodigious work of experimental archaeology in Michelle Enzinas’ Big Buttes Book: Annotated Dyets Dry Dinner (1599), by Henry Buttes, with Elizabethan Recipes. This is a fascinating tome….

Susan MacGregor appearing at Owl’s Nest Books

Susan MacGregor, author of The Tattooed Witch Trilogy, will be appearing at Owl’s Nest Books, Thursday, January 19, 6:30 to 9:30 PM. Susan says: To celebrate the release of The Tattooed Queen, the last book in my Tattooed Witch trilogy, I’ll be heading to Calgary to launch it, with a reading or two at Owl’s Nest Books. Hoping to see as many of you Calgary and southern Alberta people as possible! Come on out and visit! It’ll…