Sequel to Type releases April 1, 2015

The sequel to Alicia Hendley’s suspenseful YA near-future novel Type, entitled Type2, releases April 1, 2015 in both print and eBook formats. ISBN 9781927400852 $19.99eISBN 9781927400869 $4.99 The dynamic cover is by Five Rivers’ Art Director, Jeff Minkevics. We thought fans would be interested to read about the process behind the cover design, and so tapped the depths of Jeff’s prodigiously creative mind. JM: The challenge behind the cover for Type2 was the same sort…

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Mar 2015

By Lorina StephensAlicia Hendley, New Releases, Type, Type2Comments Off

Michell Plested signs contract for third book in Mik Murdoch series

A Crisis of Conscience to release August 1, 2016 Michell Plested Calgary, Alberta author, Michell Plested, signed a publishing agreement this month with Five Rivers Publishing for the third book in his young readers’ series Mik Murdoch. The first novel, Boy Superhero, was released in 2012, in which nine-year-old Mik Murdoch’s ambition to protect his prairie town of Cranberrry Flats reveals his quest to acquire super-powers, and in doing so Mik finds the most awesome power of all lies within…

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Mar 2015

By Lorina StephensA Crisis of Conscience, Boy Superhero, Michell Plested, Mik Murdock, New Releases, The Power WithinComments Off

It’s the third Slackers!

Continuing in the madcap, shredded, reconstructed, irreverent, hang-on-to-your seats series Shakespeare for Slackers, Aaron Kite and Audrey Evans have delved into the boiling, toiling, troubling pot of Macbeth and created a dastardly delightful modern take on The Bard’s dark and legendary work. ISBN 9781927400739 7 x 10 Trade Paperback $17.99eISBN 9781927400746 $4.99 We give you the Slackers version of Act 1 Scene 1: The place: Scotland and England. Though, I guess that’s two places, actually…….

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Feb 2015

By Lorina StephensAaron Kite, Macbeth, New Releases, Shakespeare for SlackersComments Off

Hunter’s Daughter, by Nowick Gray, releases March 1, 2015

ISBN 9781927400777 6 X 9 Trade Paperback $24.99eISBN $4.99 We are pleased to announce the release of a fascinating murder mystery, Hunter’s Daughter, on March 1, 2015, by British Columbia author, Nowick Gray. But to say Hunter’s Daughter is a mere murder mystery cannot begin to encompass what impressed us with this novel: the sharp writing, tense plot, deliciously detailed cultural and environmental surround. This is a tense novel that speaks with authority about the…

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Feb 2015

By Lorina StephensHunter's Daughter, New Releases, Newsletter, Nowick GrayComments Off