Five Rivers’ sibling authors, Nate and Alicia Hendley will be appearing in two separate Ontario locations Saturday, October 16. Nate Hendley, author of Al Capone: Chicago’s King of Crime, will be signing books at Chapters, Festival Hall, 142 John Street, Toronto, Ontario, between 3:00 and 6:00 p.m. The book is a very human look at this icon of the gangster era. View Larger Map Alicia Hendley, author of A Subtle Thing, will appear between 1:00…
Espresso at University of Waterloo Since first it was launched in 2007, I’ve been a staunch supporter of the vision of the Espresso Book Machine. That belief, however, begins to wane of late. Why? Well, there are a series of problems, most of them human, which seem to plague this remarkable technology. I will address those problems, both human and technical. Initial cost investment. Cost would appear to be the major hurdle for…
This time last year we signed a publishing agreement with orphaned authors (part of the Key Porter meltdown) and well-known Canadian gardening gurus Patrick Lima and John Scanlan, to release an updated and revised version of their organic gardening book, aptly named The Organic Home Gardener. We just received the final manuscript late last week. Wow! There is a truckload of new information, recipes and sensible strategies for the home gardener interested in producing their own…
In the coming months we will be pleased to release Nate Hendley’s shocking and insightful book on methamphetamine, Crystal Death. Originally published by now defunct Altitude Publishing under the title of Crystal Meth, we decided to pick up the book when Nate offered it to us in 2009. Nate went back to the computer and completely revised, updated and reworked the book to reflect Canadian as well as American statistics, adding new interviews with addicts,…
We’re very pleased to announce we’ve signed another debut author, Shermin Kruse, and acquired the publishing rights to her novel, Butterfly Stitching. The novel is an honest, at times heart-breaking, window into the world of Samira, an Iranian woman caught in the contradictory and eventually revolutionary world of 1979 Tehran. Ultimately a very female novel, we feel very strongly this story will resonate not only with women on a global scale, but people who struggle…