With the acquisition of six books from Nate Hendley, another two in the works, and submissions now becoming quite active, an expansion of not only our book list, but our staff is in order. It gives me great pleasure to announce the addition of two excellent associates here at Five Rivers. In the capacity of Editor I’d like to welcome Robert Runté to the fold. Dr. Robert Runté is an associate professor at the University…
From August 30 to September 29, 2009, I’ll be available at Goodreads for Q&A. Signing up is easy. If you’re already a member of Goodreads, just go to: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/23723.Q_A_with_Lorina_Stephens and join. If you’re not a member of Goodreads, consider creating an account to participate in the discussion. It’s a good book club site, user friendly, very active. I’m open to discussion on the Q&A on just about anything to do with writing and publishing. Some…
Still hoarse from a delightfully verbose afternoon (I don’t get out much) but just wanted to say what a great book signing I had at Chapters in Oshawa, Ontario! I wasn’t expecting the event to go particularly well, but was delighted and inspired by the depth and intelligence of conversation with the people I met. One young fellow, a cellist, walked out with my books after a discussion about art being a mistress of the…
Thought I’d post some of the covers for which I’ve created artwork and have designed. If you have need of cover design work, contact me.
I was not sure what to expect when I picked up Mary Anne Shafer’s novel, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Probably a good read, if the recommendations I’d read meant anything. A good read? Good heavens, yes! I cannot remember being this profoundly affected by a novel since reading Atwood’s The Blind Assassin. Shafer’s novel, written as a series of letters and telegrams post World War II, is simply a work of…