Growing Up Bronx receives 5-star review

Five Rivers’ autobiographical collection of short stories by H.A. Hargreaves, Growing Up Bronx, has received the following 5-star review on Goodreads. ‘Deceptively simple writing weaves the reader in to stories of the author’s early years in the Bronx. Characters are drawn with clean, deft stokes that bring a remarkable cast to life as richly full, complex, almost heart-breakingly real people, just as their influences mapped out the makings of the author. Hargreaves’ encompassing settings and…

Four great new titles coming

So the reason we’ve been fairly quiet of late is because we’ve been busy little bees. The result of that labour is that Five Rivers now has advance review PDFs available of four of our new titles, all releasing August 1, 2012. If anyone is interested in receiving a copy, please email us and we’ll be pleased to furnish you with a PDF in return for a review. Titles as follows: Immunity to Strange Tales,by Susan…

Susan Forest interviewed on Motivate to Create

Nate Hendley, author of Motivate to Create, Crystal Death, and others, interviewed Susan Forest over on his Motivate to Create blog yesterday. It’s a revealing interview following Nate’s formula of digging inside a writer’s motivational raison d’etre. Susan’s collection of short, speculative fiction, Immunity to Strange Tales, releases August 1, 2012, and launches at When Words Collide.

Amy Bright Book Launch: Before We Go

Five Rivers editor, Amy Bright, is launching her first novel, Before We Go (from noted children’s books publisher, Red Deer Press) Thursday May 24 at the Public Library in her home town of Lethbridge, Alberta. Aside from her editing work for Five Rivers, Amy Bright is an essayist, short story writer, and popular blogger. She was born in Alberta, lived in California and Florida, went to university in New Brunswick and British Columbia, and moved…