5-star Review for Kingmaker’s Sword

Found this 5-star review on Amazon this morning for Ann Marston’s Kingmaker’s Sword. 5.0 out of 5 stars Great Adventure – Good Humour, September 6, 2012 By Lin – See all my reviewsAmazon Verified Purchase(What’s this?) This review is from: Kingmaker’s Sword (Rune Blades of Celi) (Kindle Edition) This novel restored my taste for fantasy. I had become jaded with what seemed like so much of same-old, same-old. This book is refreshingly free of cliche! Especially in her depiction of…

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Oct 2012

By Lorina StephensAnn Marston, Kingmaker's Sword, ReviewsComments Off

LibraryThing 4-star review for The Organic Home Garden

Found this 4-star review on LibraryThing this morning for Patrick Lima’s The Organic Home Garden. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. I’ve kept a small vegetable garden in my backyard for the past 20 years. Some years are better than others, but I feel I could do more to have a more consistently successful garden. That’s why I was excited to receive this book from the Early Reviewers program. Also, the author Patrick Lima…

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Oct 2012

By Lorina StephensPatrick Lima, Reviews, The Organic Home GardenerComments Off

October Sale

In celebration of the month of Things That Creep You Out, we’re offering all our fans and readers a special promotion. Purchase any of the print books in our catalogue, and you’ll receive a free print copy of And the Angels Sang, a collection of short, speculative fiction by Lorina Stephens. Highly recommended by Midwestern Book Review, the stories range through horror, strange tales and dark humour. All you need to do when ordering is enter the…

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Oct 2012

By Lorina StephensNewsletterComments Off

John Steckley to publish with Five Rivers

John Steckleyphoto by Emary Johnston In an agreement finalized last week, Humber College professor, John Steckley will publish a middle-school text, The Invisible Ape, with Five Rivers. Steckley has been teaching at Humber College in Toronto since 1983, and has also taught Anthropology at Memorial University of Newfoundland and at Trent University, and Native Studies and Anthropology at Laurentian University. He has published 12 books, including Beyond Their Years: Five Native Women’s Stories (1999); (with Bryan Cummins) Full Circle: Canada’s…

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Sep 2012

By Lorina StephensJohn Steckley, Newsletter, The Invisible Ape1 Comment

Another début novelist to publish with Five Rivers

Susan Bohnet Part of our mandate here at Five Rivers states specifically that we give voice to Canadian authors. Part of that mandate includes giving voice to new Canadian authors. It’s difficult enough as a writer to elicit the notice of publishers, and despite the fact we periodically are swamped with unsolicited submissions, we really don’t want to change that if at all possible. So many presses, whether large or small, close the doors, work…

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Sep 2012

By Lorina StephensMy Life as a Troll, Newsletter, Susan BohnetComments Off

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5-star Review for Kingmaker’s Sword

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