Another début novelist to publish with Five Rivers

Susan Bohnet Part of our mandate here at Five Rivers states specifically that we give voice to Canadian authors. Part of that mandate includes giving voice to new Canadian authors. It’s difficult enough as a writer to elicit the notice of publishers, and despite the fact we periodically are swamped with unsolicited submissions, we really don’t want to change that if at all possible. So many presses, whether large or small, close the doors, work…

Small World

About 18 months ago, I (Robert Runté) signed H. A. Hargreaves to reprint his classic 70’s SF collection, North by 2000 (the first SF collection ever marketed as “Canadian SF”.) I wanted the collection because I often give lectures on Canadian SF to English teachers, etc., and often use Hargreaves (especially his, “Dead to the World” story) as the exemplar of Canadian / US differences. In one of my more recent talks, someone had pointed…