Joe Mahoney a hit at The Merril

Joe Mahoney appeared at The Merril Collection Thursday, October 26 to talk about, and sign copies of, his madcap debut novel, A Time and a Place.  The event sold out of books, and Joe is happily dealing with writer’s cramp. This video likely sums up everything you need to know, other than where to buy your own copy of Joe Mahoney’s A Time and Place, which is through your favourite online bookseller, and directly through Five Rivers. Enjoy…

Shadow Song coming soon as audiobook

Shadow Song, by Lorina Stephens, now in production for audiobook, narrated by Susan J. Iannucci Vengeance in the backwoods of Upper Canada Originally published in 2008 as a trade paperback, Shadow Song was later released as an ebook. In March of 2018, Shadow Song will also appear as an audiobook available through Amazon, Audible, and iTunes. An uncle insane with retribution, a midewiwin following a vision, and the girl caught between both worlds, this is the world to which Lorina…

Two new audiobooks forthcoming

Five Rivers Publishing has signed two agreements today to produce audiobook versions of D.G. Laderoute’s 2014 shortlisted Best YA Prix Aurora, Out of Time, and Aaron Kite’s 2012 Watty Award Winner, Most Popular Fantasy, A Touch of Poison. Damien Brunetto produces second book with Five Rivers Voice actor Damien Brunetto, who narrated Dave Duncan’s Eocene Station (due to release as an audiobook November 2017, and shortlisted for the Endeavour Award), is also narrating Laderoute’s Out of Time. Damien is a graduate of…

The Mermaid’s Tale now available as audiobook

D.G. Valdron’s, visceral and gripping novel, The Mermaid’s Tale, is now available in audiobook through iTunes, Amazon and Audible. The narrator of The Mermaid’s Tale Beautifully narrated by Susan Iannucci, the story is one of redemption and identity, what it means to be an individual when all hope of individual assertion is stripped by virtue of what you are. In a city of majesty and brutality, of warring races and fragile alliances, a sacred mermaid has been…

An amazing indie bookstore, featuring Avians

One of the quirky, defiantly independent bookstores carrying Five Rivers’ books is Elizabeth Campbell Books in Kenora, Ontario, specifically Timothy Gwyn’s Avians.. Elizabeth Campbell Books opened in July of 1991 as an indie book shop, but when Walmart came to town a few years later, Elizabeth Campbell realized she needed to adapt to survive. She decided Walmart probably would never get into used books, so she began building a collection that now exceeds a selection…