We seem to be asked that quite a bit recently: why so many divisions on Five Rivers’ website? Some people seem to think it looks unprofessional to have several seemingly unrelated businesses lumped into one website. Others think it displays a lack of commitment. Allow us to illuminate the subject. Five Rivers is a family owned and operated business dedicated to the pursuit of excellence and individualism. Our partners, Gary and Lorina Stephens, each pursue…
It would seem 2010 is going to be about change, new frontiers and the realization of dreams, at least if the first four days of this new year are any indication. The year here started out very much on a personal note, with a somewhat sudden decision to launch into a full-blown kitchen renovation, precipitated by a Christmas gift of a new dishwasher. The dishwasher wouldn’t fit the old (c. 1960) cupboards and counter, which…
So, I’m sitting here in the loft, scheming new ideas and plot lines for this next novel of mine, The Rose Guardian. Christmas music is playing on iTunes. Over my head the roofers are thumping and bashing and doing a Morris dance, installing a new steel roof on this grand old stone house. On the floor below Izzy, my adopted budgie, squawks and trills, happy he’s been given a new stalk of millet. Doesn’t take…
Reprinted from Goodreads. Lorina Stephens’ Shadow Song is a part-fantasy historical drama/love story, charting the, for lack of a better word, coming-of-age of Danielle Michelle Fleming. The daughter of a beautiful French aristocrat and an English gentleman, and the owner of a gift that European culture/traditions forbids, Danielle is, at the beginning of the novel, feeling her privileged lifestyle slip away, replaced with bitter poverty. The majority of the novel is set in Upper Canada,…
Yesterday Five Rivers reached an agreement to publish the next young adult novel from author Simon Rose, Flashback. The novel is a reincarnation, time-travel story about young Vancouver-based Max, who finds himself a reluctant investigator into a murder that happened decades ago to David Dexter. Max’s dreams and findings lead him to people it would appear he knew in a previous life and in the end transport back in time and body into the dangerous…