Why we published: Mik Murdoch: Boy Superhero, by Michell Plested

One of the joys of running a small publishing house is the ability you have to access unknown authors with that gem of a manuscript. It isn’t an every day occurrence, but I’d have to say it’s happy circumstance that Five Rivers has had an embarrassment of riches from debut authors. Such was the case when Michell Plested first approached us in 2010 with a story about a young boy determined to be the guardian…

Why We Published…Susan Forest’s Immunity to Strange Tales

From the Desk of Robert Runte I try to keep on top of developments in the Canadian SF community, and had noticed that Susan Forest was being published in the major short story markets: Analog, Tesseracts, AE Science Fiction Review and so on. Then she won first place in The Galaxy Project a major contest judged by Robert Silverberg, David Drake and Barry Malzberg. That certainly got my attention. Even though I hadn’t had a…