I’m thrilled to announce the release of my new cultural fantasy novel, From Mountains of Ice. Back cover blurb: 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 and human bone, bows that are said to speak, bows known as the legendary arcossi. And now, after a decade,…
Recently a discussion came up among fellow writers about the legitimacy of self-publishing versus legacy publishers. Some of the comments from my colleagues left me, frankly, startled. One writer commented that he had, ‘a deep-seated distrust of all things that smack of self-publishing,’ while another writer commented that ‘…”real” publishers regard themselves as such, and they regard everything from literary presses with two books a year down through small press, ebooks and self-publishing as being…
I’m pleased to announce that Five Rivers is now distributing to Indigo Books the Minute-Men books, by Mike Aragona, published by Savage Enterprises Publishing. The Mysterious Minute-Men Omnibus Not all Superhero Teams are the same, and when it comes to the zany adventures of The Mysterious Minute-Men, the differences are all part of the fun! Funnier than a barrel of monkeys – and probably just as powerful! Minute-Man’s powers are so Mysterious, even he doesn’t…
A simply brilliant novel, one of Atwood’s best, and certainly deserving of the Booker. Comfortable with her skill as a writer, Atwood deftly alternates between sections written from different viewpoints and tenses, creating at first what seem to be disparate stories but which, of course, come together in a tense, sometimes humorous, often oppressive, and always insightful tale of relationships, love, betrayal and atonement. Certainly The Blind Assassin should be required reading for any adult….