Nate Hendley Joins Five Rivers’ Authors

Five Rivers is pleased to welcome Nate Hendley to our community of authors with the 2010 re-release of his horrifically insightful book: Crystal Death: Methamphetamine #1 Killer (formerly published by Altitude Publishing under Crystal Meth.) Crystal Death chronicles the nightmare lives of several North American addicts and producers, backing those biographies with scientific, well-researched documentation about the physical, societal, and medical impact of this most deadly and devastating of drugs. Nate Hendley is a Toronto-based…

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Aug 2009

By Lorina StephensBooks, Information1 Comment

In this Brave New Publishing World, Marketing Vital

Recently there was a discussion regarding the grass-roots revolution in publishing on a Yahoo group to which I subscribe. Don McCauley, founder of Free Publicity Focus Group (http://www.freepublicitygroup.com) and host of The Authors Show Radio (http://wwwtheauthorsshow.com) made the following comment. I reprint it here with Don’s permission. Imagine you own a hardware store. In the state in which you are located there are 200 MILLION other hardware stores. What would you do? Now imagine that…

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Aug 2009

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Alternative Marketing for Indie Publishers

Sometime last year I signed on with Goodreads (www.goodreads.com), a virtual book club where people fill shelves with virtual books and more often than not rate and write reviews. These are not critically acclaimed reviews, and are often disparaged by legacy publishers and authors. To my view, however, the forum Goodreads provides, and the reader reviews posted there, are a grassroots, honest response from the people who count the most in the literary world, besides…

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Jul 2009

By Lorina StephensBooks, Information, Reviews1 Comment

Prologue: From Mountains of Ice

By way of introduction of my new cultural fantasy novel, From Mountains of Ice, and to celebrate my 54th birthday, I’m offering here the prologue for your pleasure. He tried very hard to remain still, to be strong, project the image of the Royal Prince he was. That scream in his throat had a life of its own. He wanted to set it free, let it encompass the room. How could she? He allowed himself…

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Jul 2009

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Catching Up

After almost two weeks of silence from me — my apologies — I finally have a sane moment to update the blog. Technology Trials As in trial by frustration, not testing new products. The first week of July I experienced some rather disconcerting imaging and monitor problems that would have the monitor pixelate, freeze and thereby blocking any interface with the computer. The problem would only resolve by doing a hard restart of the computer….

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Jul 2009

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