This coming Saturday, May 15, Lorina Stephens will appear at Indigo Books and Music, 259 Princess St., Kingston, ON, between 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. She will be signing copies of her latest novel, From Mountains of Ice, a cultural fantasy set in the Italian Renaissance world of Simare. The novel, Lorina’s fifth publication, tells the story of an unlikely hero, Sylvio di Danuto, a back-country bowyer fallen from grace, exiled, dispossessed, the former minister of…
By January 2010 Five Rivers had signed agreements with eight authors for 18 books. We’ve been very busy here at Five Rivers these past few months, editing, revising, proofing and designing. We’ve gone back and forth with our authors with edits and galleys. The first of those 18 books, (re)Discover the Joy of Creative Writing, by Paul Lima, released May 1, 2010. This is the second in the ‘Workshop in a book’ series, the first…
Saturday, April 24, Lorina Stephens, author of the Italian Renaissance fantasy, From Mountains of Ice, will appear at Chapters, Richmond Centre, 86 Fanshawe, London, Ontario, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. She will be signing copies of not only From Mountains of Ice, but And the Angels Sang, and Shadow Song. For more information about Lorina’s tour schedule, visit Five River’s calendar. You can also become a fan of Lorina Stephens through Facebook. Map is courtesy…
Let’s first deal with the bad news. It would appear there is some confusion at Smashwords regarding their relationship with some of their international clients. While many individuals who use Smashwords as a delivery system for their eBooks are independent authors, there are also many small publishers using Smashwords. Five Rivers is one of those. As a foreign individual using Smashwords (as with Lulu) the IRS requires a 30% withholding tax, unless a requisite ITIN…
We thought we’d share some insight today on the genesis of a cover here at Five Rivers; that is, the process through which we take a design idea. In this instance the subject is Simon Rose’s upcoming YA novel, The Insistence of Memory. The story is targeted for the 14 to 16 age group, an action-packed speculative fiction starting in present day Canada and ending up in the dark machinations of the Cold War Era…