Five Rivers Signs Two-book Deal with Matthew Hughes

Matt Hughes Late last week an agreement was reached between Five Rivers Publishing and well-known Canadian author, Matthew Hughes, to reprint his 1997 crime mystery, Downshift, and to release the unpublished sequel, Old Growth. “We’re very pleased to give Matt’s work a home here,” says Lorina Stephens, publisher at Five Rivers. Hughes writes fantasy and science fiction under the name Matthew Hughes, and Matt Hughes for crime fiction. He’s won the Crime Writers of Canada’s Arthur…

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Mar 2012

By Lorina StephensMatt Hughes, PublishingComments Off

Commerce as censor

Once again I find myself stunned by the increasingly moralistic, repressive response we seem to be experiencing in Western society. My astonishment is centred around PayPal’s recent McCarthyistic bullying of Smashwords, among others. The crux of the issue is either Smashwords and other specifically named distributors and aggregators of literary content, revise their censorship policies to comply with PayPal’s views, or face having their accounts shut down. While I personally am not a lover of…

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Mar 2012

By Lorina Stephensfuture of publishingComments Off

John Poulsen to publish Shakespeare for Reader’s Theatre

John Poulsen University of Lethbridge professor, John Poulsen, and Five Rivers have reached an agreement to publish Shakespeare for Readers’ Theatre. Shakespeare for Readers’ Theatre is a Readers’ Theatre collection of three of Shakespeare’s most beloved plays in abridged form. Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, as well as Midsummer Night’s Dream have been trimmed while keeping Shakespeare’s beautiful language. Hamlet can run more than four hours but this Hamlet will run less than 45 minutes while…

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Feb 2012

By Lorina StephensJohn Poulsen, PublishingComments Off

Cover for Things Falling Apart

The cover for J.W. Schnarr’s forthcoming collection Things Falling Apart has just landed in our In Box. Have to say we’re pleasantly creeped out by it. The artist, Gavro Krackovic, is a 22 year old native of Podgorica, Montenegro. From the time he was a boy he’s been in love with visual arts, and while still in secondary school, at the age of 17, branched out into freelance work. Can’t help but admire that kind…

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Feb 2012

By Lorina StephensCovers, J.W. SchnarrComments Off

J.W. Schnarr 5-Star review to North by 2000+

As posted on Goodreads, by J.W. Schnarr If you are like every other Canadian spec fic writer out there and has ever read a science fiction story about places like New York, London, or Hong Kong, and ever wondered what it might be like, just once, to read a story set in a place you actually felt an affinity with…North by 2000+ by H.A. Hargreaves is the book you need to read. In this reprint…

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Feb 2012

By Lorina StephensHargreaves, J.W. Schnarr, North by 2000+, ReviewsComments Off