Goodreads Festive Season Sale

Exclusively at Goodreads, all of Five Rivers eBooks are available from now until January 1, 2011 for a mere $1.00. It’s our way of saying thank you to all the people who support and believe in indie presses, and who love interesting and eclectic books. The eBooks are all in ePub format, and so easily read on most readers and computers. If you do avail yourself of this special offer, we’d love to read your…

Five Rivers Authors’ Upcoming Events.

Five Rivers’ sibling authors, Nate and Alicia Hendley will be appearing in two separate Ontario locations Saturday, October 16. Nate Hendley, author of Al Capone: Chicago’s King of Crime, will be signing books at Chapters, Festival Hall, 142 John Street, Toronto, Ontario, between 3:00 and 6:00 p.m. The book is a very human look at this icon of the gangster era. View Larger Map Alicia Hendley, author of A Subtle Thing, will appear between 1:00…

Toronto’s Word on the Street

A day to recuperate and organize my thoughts about Five Rivers’ experience this year at Toronto’s Word on the Street. In a word: fabulous! Last year we had a booth in the Fringe Beat section, nestled amid philosophers of morality and inarticulate sword-masters, of foul-mouthed publishers of twisted dystopia, and hawkers of a better life. We crammed ourselves into a microscopic space of five feet. But it was a start, and we put out the…