King of Shadows now available for pre-order

The fifth book in Ann Marston’s epic fantasy, King of Shadows: The Rune Blades of Celi, is now available for pre-order. Always a master storyteller, Ann Marston’s novels have been delighting fans for years, and we’re pleased to bring back this series in its entirety. Next year will see not only the sixth book, Sword and Shadow, return in February, but the addition of a brand new novel in the series, Bane’s Choice, which will release…

A Touch of Poison now available for pre-order

It’s a busy summer here at Five Rivers, and we’re pleased to let our fans and readers know Aaron Kite’s Wattie Award-winning YA fantasy is now available for pre-order through Five Rivers’ website, as well as from online retailers globally. Gwenwyn is the most miserable princess ever, and for good reason. Merely brushing up against her or touching her exposed skin is enough to cause painful burns, or worse. And if that wasn’t enough, she’s…

Nate Hendley meet and greet at Guelph Chapters

Five Rivers author, Nate Hendley, will be taking part in a “meet the crime author” event at Chapter’s in Guelph, Ontario on Saturday, July 5 from 11 am – 3 pm. Nate Hendley at Toronto’s Word on the Street He will be signing copies of his true-crime book, Steven Truscott: Decades of Injustice, about a notorious case of wrongful conviction in Canada. Hendley will be one of four awesome crime/mystery authors at this event. All…

My Life as a Troll available for pre-order

Susan Bohnet’s debut YA urban fantasy novel, My Life as a Troll, is now available for pre-order through Five Rivers’ website in both print and eBook, and will be shortly through online retailers globally. available soon from online booksellers worldwide My Life as a Troll is a sometimes funny, always engaging, fascinating romp into the world of online gaming, through the escapades of Jared, who is doing everything humanly, and sometimes not humanly, possible to…

LibraryThing reviewer 4 stars for Wasps at the Speed of Sound

The following 4-star review appeared on LibraryThing for Derryl Murphy’s collection of short eco-fiction, Wasps at the Speed of Sound. ISBN 9781927400432 $19.99eISBN 9781927400449 $4.99from Five Rivers Publishingand online booksellers worldwide This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Before I start down I look one more time in the stream. I can see nothing swimming in it, no fish, no beetle.As I walk, I wish there were still birds to sing to me. Eleven stories…