A great review for Patrick Lima’s The Organic Home Garden appears in the Fall 2011 edition of Garden Making magazine, written by Betty Fox, editor. Sage advice for the veg bed Once upon a time, before supermarkets and fast food, we grew most of what we ate, learning how to garden almost by osmosis — everyone in the family pitched in. But for the legions of us who didn’t grow up with a spade in…
Growing up Bronx: A Memoir of my Shapers and Shakers, by H.A. Hargreaves, is a tender, insightful memoir in ten short stories. Two stories of the collection, Requiem for a Bookman, and The Seer of Nanny Goat Hill, both aired on Alberta Anthology, CBCFM in the early 1980s. Today, Five Rivers is thrilled to announce we’ll be releasing Growing up Bronx early in 2013. As Hargreaves indicates in the sub-title, the collection is a tribute…
The When Worlds Collide Festival in Calgary this past weekend was a unqualified success. The consensus of those attending was that it was the best SF convention since Context’91. I highly recommend the convention to any writer, editor, or publisher who can make it next year. (The pilot convention this year focused on SF and some Romance writing, but will be expanded to include all genre’s next year.) It is starting to shape up as…
Five Rivers editor, Robert Runteacute;, will be attending and presenting at Calgary’s When Words Collide convention next weekend (August 12-14). The convention is a new one, but being mounted by a reputable team, and the concept — a convention for genre writers and editors — is very appealing. Might be worth checking out if you live near Calgary.
It’s been a very busy summer here at Five Rivers, and nearly a month since last I updated our blog. Apologies for the silence. There’s just been a lot to do. So what’s the scoop? Why so busy? Well, we’ve released three new books, back to back, in both print and digital formats, and it’s been that latter part, the digital part, that has taken so much time, as always. Now, however, we’re pleased to…