Jeff Minkevics discusses cover for Type

July 1, 2013 Five Rivers will release Alicia Hendley’s second novel, Type. The novel focuses on the fallout from the Social Media Era, when rates of divorce, crime, and mental illness were sky-rocketing and civilization was at its breaking point. As a result, prominent psychologists from around the globe gathered together to try to regain social order through scientific means. Their solution? Widespread implementation of Myers-Briggs personality typing, with each citizen assessed at the age of…

A Method to the Madness: advance orders and contest

In an almost unprecedented move, a conclave of The Super Evil convened last year at a secret lair in North America to create a guide book for aspiring ne’er-do-wells. The result? A collection of papers known generally as A Method to the Madness: a Guide to the Super Evil, a collection destined to become the handbook globally of every evil genius. It was agreed such an undertaking required hiring of minion editors, as such a…

Alicia Hendley’s Type gaining attention

Alicia Hendley’s forthcoming YA SF novel, Type, is destined, it would seem, for great things. This past summer Hendley wrote a screenplay based on Type, subsequently entered it in the Canada International Film Festival (CIFF), and was notified yesterday by CIFF officials she’s made the cut: “Your…screenplay has been chosen as an Official Selection of the 2013 Canada International Film Festival.” According to CIFF information, Hendley’s screenplay is only one of 23 films and screenplays chosen…

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March 2013

Alicia Hendley’s Type gaining attention