Starting today and running through until June 6, 2009, Five Rivers is pleased to announce a special offer on Advance Orders of my newest novel, From Mountains of Ice. For every advance order received through Five Rivers’ secure shopping cart, you’ll receive a free signed copy of my anthology of short, speculative fiction, And the Angels Sang. Bring your order up to $40.00CDN, and you’ll also receive free shipping. This offer is not advertised through…
I’ve just finished signing an agreement with Lightning Source Inc (LSI, the print on demand company we use for all our publications) that will now make available all Five Rivers’ titles through the most innovative piece of printing technology since the Gutenberg Press — the Espresso Book Machine (EBM). What this means to the average person is wherever there’s an Espresso, they’ll be able to order a copy of any book in Five Rivers’ (or…
Many thanks to Patricia Gallant, Secretary of the Headwaters Writers’ Guild (http://www.owg.netfirms.com/), for this image taken during the seminar and signing Paul Lima (http://www.paullima.com/) and I did at Coles in Orangeville, Ontario on May 16. You can catch up with Paul, Saturday, June 20 at Chapters, 2225 Bloor Street (at Runnymede), Toronto, Ontario from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Paul will be doing a free seminar based on his book, How to Write a Non-fiction Book…
The following article by Dr. Robert Runte is reprinted from On Spec Magazine, #76, Vol. 21, no. 1, Spring, 2009. Layoffs. Fear of massive layoffs. It’s the fear, more than the reality, that’s driving the current recession, at least in Canada. And it’s that fear that has allowed corporations to extort massive government bailouts. It is worth noting in the midst of the current crisis that nobody is considering bailing out the arts, even though…
Pre-order your signed, advance copy of From Mountains of Ice today from Five Rivers and win a free signed copy of And the Angels Sang. This offer will be available only for a limited time. From the back cover: Sylvio spent the past decade banished from Simare’s court, stripped of land, ancestral home and title – from Minister of National Security to back-country bowyer. But not any bowyer; Sylvio creates bows from laminations of wood…