Writers and Editors Breakfast Meeting

Itching to write a non-fiction book? Successful freelance writer and trainer Paul Lima explains “How To Write A Non-Fiction Book In 60 Days”. No matter what you want to write about, you’ll learn how to take your book from inspiration to completion in days, not years. Complete with practical writing exercises, Lima helps you define your purpose and spells out the process required to move from idea to a detailed chapter-by-chapter outline to a solid…

Website Problems

For those of you out there who have been telling me you can’t place an order on the website, I owe you huge apologies. Turns out there was a conflict with the new Google toolbar on Internet Explorer 7. I found the patch to correc the problem from my software developer, installed it, threatened it, and finally after an entire morning’s fussing and fretting the blasted site is up and working correctly now for all…

Interview with Shireen Jeejeebhoy, author of Lifeliner: the Judy Taylor Story

Shireen Jeejeebhoy was born in London and spent her formative years in India. In 1968, she arrived in Canada where she attended local public schools before attending the University of Toronto, earning a degree in psychology. She has also been deeply interested in medicine, her father Dr. Jeejeebhoy being the doctor who treated Judy Taylor. Her new book “Lifeliner” is about his work helping Judy. Shireen personally knew Judy and is the perfect person to…

On Being Water

Despite having my negotiations and relationship-building of the past year and half with Chapters/Indigo suddenly take a turn south yesterday, I’ve decided to follow my two mantras: Be like water and flow around an obstacle. Margaret Atwood The only failures are those who fail to try. Lester B. Pearson. As a result, I’ve decided to aggressively market Five Rivers books through our own website, while still offering them through all the major online booksellers worldwide….