Who knew a decade would fly by so quickly! Indeed it is 10 years since we decided to give voice to Canadian authors. The line-up for 2018 is, quite frankly, very exciting. Five Rivers is releasing a series of great new books, both fiction and non-fiction, starting with the release February 1 of a new installment in Dave Duncan’s wildly popular King’s Blades fantasy series, One Velvet Glove. Duncan, a CSFFA Hall of Fame inductee,…
Seasons Greetings from Five Rivers Publishing! Wishing all our readers, fans, authors and team a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year—good health, contentment and prosperity. And, of course, my favourite Christmas song: The Gloucester Wassail, sun by The Briton Ensemble.
February 1 is quickly coming upon us, and I’m sure many authors who follow Five Rivers are wondering what we’ll be looking for in our 2018 submission window from February 1-14. Here’s a list of what will likely get more favourable consideration. Fiction Historical Fiction: Successful manuscripts will be based on Canadian history, solidly researched, well-defined characters. We will not consider romance disguised as historical fiction. For examples of what we will publish, take a…
Nate Hendley, author of the forthcoming book The Boy on the Bicycle: A Forgotten Case of Wrongful Conviction in Toronto, recently joined the Toronto crime writers at the Toronto Reference Library. Thought our readers would enjoy a video of the full presentation.
The wait is over! A new novella from Lorina Stephens releases March 1, 2018, and is now available for pre-order in both print and EPUB. Lorina says, “I began Caliban in the 1980s, wrote it fast and furiously, and abandoned it for several decades. Originally I wanted to tell a story about a character utterly alien to human sensibilities, a character who, by the standards of his universe, was considered ugly, terrifying, bound by symbiosis…