We asked the same five questions of the authors of the Prime Minister of Canada series. Here’s what Dorothy Pedersen had to say. 5R: There are those who persist in saying Canadian history is boring. Having undertaken to write part of that history, how would you respond to that assertion? DP: Canadian history, as it was delivered in the school system, WAS boring. We never learned about life as it was then, the stories behind…
Michell Plested, author of the popular YA series, Mik Murdoch, also authors and maintains an informative podcast, Get Published. Recently Michell interviewed Nowick Gray about his newly released murder-mystery which is set in Ungava. The podcast can be found here. And the first reader reviews are beginning to come in. This 4-star review on Goodreads. Hunter’s Daughter is available in print and eBook from online booksellers worldwide, and directly from Five Rivers.
Contrary to popular belief, Canadian history is not boring. The Death of General Wolfeby Benjamin West It is true that we have not had as many civil wars, assassinations and riots as some other nations—most of our riots have been over hockey rather than politics or religion—but that does not make our history boring. There is plenty of history in just surviving in our climate, in exploring the continent, and in building a nation; there…
The sequel to Alicia Hendley’s suspenseful YA near-future novel Type, entitled Type2, releases April 1, 2015 in both print and eBook formats. ISBN 9781927400852 $19.99eISBN 9781927400869 $4.99 The dynamic cover is by Five Rivers’ Art Director, Jeff Minkevics. We thought fans would be interested to read about the process behind the cover design, and so tapped the depths of Jeff’s prodigiously creative mind. JM: The challenge behind the cover for Type2 was the same sort…
A Crisis of Conscience to release August 1, 2016 Michell Plested Calgary, Alberta author, Michell Plested, signed a publishing agreement this month with Five Rivers Publishing for the third book in his young readers’ series Mik Murdoch. The first novel, Boy Superhero, was released in 2012, in which nine-year-old Mik Murdoch’s ambition to protect his prairie town of Cranberrry Flats reveals his quest to acquire super-powers, and in doing so Mik finds the most awesome power of all lies within…