The following 4-star review for Patrick Lima’s The Organic Home Garden appeared on LibraryThing’s website: I grew up helping out in my parents’ large garden, and last year I finally attempted one of my own. Some things worked (delicious bush beans through September) and others didn’t (my poor eggplant and pepper starts never got above 4 inches tall). Reading The Organic Home Garden I now have some ideas as to why some of my plants failed,…
Five Rivers’ author, Michell Plested (Mik Murdoch: Boy Superhero), has a short story up at Every Photo Tells this week. Inspiration photo, forYou Can Never Go Homeby Michell Plested We thought you might enjoy this mood piece, as narrated by Mick Mordet.
We met up with Michael R. Fletcher, author of the debut SF novel, 88, for an interview. Michael R. Fletcher Q: Would you please give us an overview of your novel, 88? MRF: This should be fun. I seem to have injured myself doing handstand push-ups and am currently floating on a lovely cloud of (legal, if slightly beyond their best before date) narcotics. The story takes place in the year 2034 which was about as…
The launch for John Poulsen’s Shakespeare for Reader’s Theatre: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Midsummer Night’s Dream, takes place this evening at 7:00 p.m. at the Round Street Cafe, 427 5th Street, Lethbridge, Alberta, hosted by the University of Lethbridge Bookstore. John Poulsen Here’s a schedule of the evening’s events:6:45 doors open and people will be invited to snack on the Round Street goodies. 7:00 Kate (John Poulsen‘s daughter) will welcome everyone, introduce the evening’s program…
July 1, 2013 Five Rivers will release Alicia Hendley’s second novel, Type. The novel focuses on the fallout from the Social Media Era, when rates of divorce, crime, and mental illness were sky-rocketing and civilization was at its breaking point. As a result, prominent psychologists from around the globe gathered together to try to regain social order through scientific means. Their solution? Widespread implementation of Myers-Briggs personality typing, with each citizen assessed at the age of…