Prix Aurora Award nominations

It’s that time of year again, and nominations for the Prix Aurora Award are once again open. This year Five Rivers has several books eligible for nomination. We hope you will register with CSFFA and consider nominating Five Rivers’ eligible titles. Online nominations must be submitted by 11:59:59 PM EST on April 12, 2014. Voting will begin on May 3, 2014. Online votes must be submitted by 11:59:59 EDT on September 6, 2014. The Aurora…

Re-release of Candas Jane Dorsey’s award-winning Black Wine

It gives us great pleasure to announce the re-release of Candas Jane Dorsey’s award-winning debut novel, Black Wine, October 1, 2013. Candas Jane Dorseyphoto courtesy of Vala GrenierBlue Magic photography The story revolves around an old woman hanging in a cage, countered by a young woman who slaves on a rich lord’s estate and struggles to discover and assert her identity in a primeval, barbaric world. From slave dens to merchant cities and isolated mountains,…

Questions for the Mad Scientists

From captivity editors Jeffrey Hite and Michell Plested have been coerced created the following video, which is a collection of questions for the mad scientists who convened and created the handbook now known as A Method to the Madness: A Guide to the Super Evil.  The collection is now available for pre-order. Format Print $18.00 CADeBook $9.99 CAD

Author Michell Plested held hostage

It is rumoured Calgary-based author Michell Plested has fallen afoul of forces greater than he anticipated. The crisis started in 2012 when a conclave of The Super Evil convened 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 international handbook of every evil…

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…