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Call for Submissions

Five Rivers Chapmanry is an independent micro-publisher of fiction and non-fiction, giving voice to new and established Canadian authors. Five Rivers is committed to bringing publishing back to uncompromising personal editors where it belongs, rather than focus-group marketing. We publish real books by real authors for real readers.   We employ print-on-demand technologies as part of responsible management of environmental and financial resources: by printing only the books required, rather than warehousing thousands, we save…

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14
Sep 2010
By Lorina StephensInformation, Newsletter, Publishing, writingComments Off on Call for Submissions

Five Rivers at Word on the Street

Five Rivers will be at Toronto’s Word on the Street again this year, Sunday, September 26, 2010, from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. This year we’re in the publisher’s section, Booth 327, right at the corner of Hoskin Avenue and Queen’s Park Crescent West, across from an Information Booth, an ATM kiosk and the World’s Food Market. The highlight of our day will be the launch of Alicia Hendley’s debut novel, A Subtle Thing. Alicia…

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10
Sep 2010
By Lorina StephensA Subtle Thing, Al Capone, Alicia Hendley, And the Angels Sang, Events, From Mountains of Ice, Lorina Stephens, Motivate to Create, Nate Hendley, Shadow SongComments Off on Five Rivers at Word on the Street

The Darwinism of Books

It has become almost a tired argument the past three years that print books will suffer extinction. Pundits far wiser than I have expostulated that in this world of immediate gratification and three second attention, of rampant consumerism and the rule of the mob, that books — real, paper-filled and cover bound books — will see a demise in favour of digital information and literature. Certainly that prediction is not without precedent. Just look at…

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02
Sep 2010
By Lorina Stephensfuture of publishing, Views from the Old Stone House2 Comments

Alicia Hendley Reviewed in Kitchener Waterloo Record

The following review appeared yesterday in the Kitchener Waterloo Herald. We thought we’d share the good news. By Jon Fear, Record staffA Subtle Thingby Alicia Hendley(Five Rivers, 200 pages, $25 softcover)Depression can be a painful, soul-destroying burden. And one of the ironies, says Beth, the young woman who tells her own story in this often instructive novel, is that as you wind your way deeper and deeper into self-destructive behaviour, your best friends and family…

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29
Aug 2010
By Lorina StephensA Subtle Thing, Alicia Hendley, ReviewsComments Off on Alicia Hendley Reviewed in Kitchener Waterloo Record