Five Rivers is pleased to welcome layout artist, Éric Desmarais to the crew. Éric Desmarais Éric graduated in 2006 with a BA in Communications and no idea what to do with his life. He decided to narrow his job search to anywhere that would hire him. He luckily found a great position in the federal government as a desktop publisher, which is a cross between a layout artist and a webmaster. Once he’d finished writing his first…
It is interesting to note in recent sales stats which were released by the publishing industry, that although both print and digital book sales have continued to decline markedly with the Big5, sales with retailers, particularly Amazon, have increased. That caused the traditional publishing industry to sit up and ask the question to which every small and indie publisher and author knew the answer five years ago: The increase in sales come directly from said…
Senior Editor, Robert Runté, and former staffer (now gone on to full time writer) Barb Gieger, at the Five Rivers table at Word on the Street Festival, Lethbridge. Five Rivers participated in Lethbridge’s Word on the Street festival this weekend and co-hosted a Bluepencil Café with Editors Canada. Small by comparison to Toronto’s, but still just as enjoyable — great guests, 100 vendors, food trucks, and most importantly, a significant proportion of the population coming…
Five Rivers welcomes Kathryn Shalley to the expanded editorial team as our first Editorial Assistant. Kathryn is a student of English and Linguistics at Mount Royal University (Calgary) and describes herself as a lover of stories. Kathryn says, “Five Rivers is an opportunity to do the work I love and gain valuable experience in the publishing world so that in the future I may continue to smell of ink and coffee—rather than beer and barbeque…
Kim Greyson We’re ever so pleased to welcome to Five Rivers’ editorial staff Kim Greyson. Kim Greyson is a retired high school Social Studies and English teacher. As an educator, he has done numerous presentations on how to engage reluctant readers. As an editor, he has been a beta reader for numerous established authors, and a writing coach for first time writers. He has been part of the Speculative Fiction world for over twenty years…