Author, Matt Hughes We recently corresponded with Matt Hughes in his southern France house-sitting gig, to interview him regarding the re-release of his sensational thriller, Downshift, available June 1. Lorina: What was the inspiration for Downshift? Matt: I wanted to be a crime writer and I had a publisher interested in signing me. That deal didn’t work out in the end, but I was lucky to make contact with the late L.R. Wright, one of…
Among the many books crime-writer Nate Hendley has penned, Dutch Schultz: brazen beer baron of New York, is one of the most recent. Factual, gritty, written in a readable, fluid manner, Schultz is now beginning to receive a few accolades. This is a recent 5-star review from a Goodreads reviewer: ‘I received this as a Goodreads giveaway. ‘This isn’t really a book I would normally go for, but the description piqued my curiosity. I went…
Five Rivers’ autobiographical collection of short stories by H.A. Hargreaves, Growing Up Bronx, has received the following 5-star review on Goodreads. ‘Deceptively simple writing weaves the reader in to stories of the author’s early years in the Bronx. Characters are drawn with clean, deft stokes that bring a remarkable cast to life as richly full, complex, almost heart-breakingly real people, just as their influences mapped out the makings of the author. Hargreaves’ encompassing settings and…
So the reason we’ve been fairly quiet of late is because we’ve been busy little bees. The result of that labour is that Five Rivers now has advance review PDFs available of four of our new titles, all releasing August 1, 2012. If anyone is interested in receiving a copy, please email us and we’ll be pleased to furnish you with a PDF in return for a review. Titles as follows: Immunity to Strange Tales,by Susan…
Nate Hendley, author of Motivate to Create, Crystal Death, and others, interviewed Susan Forest over on his Motivate to Create blog yesterday. It’s a revealing interview following Nate’s formula of digging inside a writer’s motivational raison d’etre. Susan’s collection of short, speculative fiction, Immunity to Strange Tales, releases August 1, 2012, and launches at When Words Collide.