Shocking and Insightful Book from Nate Hendley

In the coming months we will be pleased to release Nate Hendley’s shocking and insightful book on methamphetamine, Crystal Death. Originally published by now defunct Altitude Publishing under the title of Crystal Meth, we decided to pick up the book when Nate offered it to us in 2009. Nate went back to the computer and completely revised, updated and reworked the book to reflect Canadian as well as American statistics, adding new interviews with addicts,…

Five Rivers Signs Debut Author, Shermin Kruse

We’re very pleased to announce we’ve signed another debut author, Shermin Kruse, and acquired the publishing rights to her novel, Butterfly Stitching. The novel is an honest, at times heart-breaking, window into the world of Samira, an Iranian woman caught in the contradictory and eventually revolutionary world of 1979 Tehran. Ultimately a very female novel, we feel very strongly this story will resonate not only with women on a global scale, but people who struggle…

Images from Word on the Street

Talented brother and sister, Nate and Alicia Hendley at Five Rivers’ booth at WOTS this past Sunday. Alicia Hendley signing copies of her fabulous debut novel, A Subtle Thing.

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Sep 2010

By Lorina StephensA Subtle Thing, Al Capone, Alicia Hendley, Events, Nate HendleyComments Off

Toronto’s Word on the Street

A day to recuperate and organize my thoughts about Five Rivers’ experience this year at Toronto’s Word on the Street. In a word: fabulous! Last year we had a booth in the Fringe Beat section, nestled amid philosophers of morality and inarticulate sword-masters, of foul-mouthed publishers of twisted dystopia, and hawkers of a better life. We crammed ourselves into a microscopic space of five feet. But it was a start, and we put out the…

Book Trailer, A Subtle Thing

The prologue of Alicia Hendley’s novel, A Subtle Thing, as a book trailer.

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Sep 2010

By Lorina StephensA Subtle Thing, Alicia HendleyComments Off