It is rumoured Calgary-based author Michell Plested has fallen afoul of forces greater than he anticipated. The crisis started in 2012 when a conclave of The Super Evil convened at a secret lair in North America to create a guide book for aspiring ne’er-do-wells. The result? A collection of papers known generally as A Method to the Madness: a Guide to the Super Evil, a collection destined to become the international handbook of every evil…
We now have available review copies of 88 in either PDF or EPUB format. Please contact us with details of where your reviews will be posted, and we’ll be pleased to send you Michael R. Fletcher’s gripping, action-packed debut novel. Five Rivers is also offering 45% discount on all advance orders for the trade paperback version. Instead of paying $32.99, you pay only $19.00, plus shipping. 88 ISBN 9781927400234 $30.99 ADVANCE PRICE $19.00 until May 31,…
We met up with Michael R. Fletcher, author of the debut SF novel, 88, for an interview. Michael R. Fletcher Q: Would you please give us an overview of your novel, 88? MRF: This should be fun. I seem to have injured myself doing handstand push-ups and am currently floating on a lovely cloud of (legal, if slightly beyond their best before date) narcotics. The story takes place in the year 2034 which was about as…
July 1, 2013 Five Rivers will release Alicia Hendley’s second novel, Type. The novel focuses on the fallout from the Social Media Era, when rates of divorce, crime, and mental illness were sky-rocketing and civilization was at its breaking point. As a result, prominent psychologists from around the globe gathered together to try to regain social order through scientific means. Their solution? Widespread implementation of Myers-Briggs personality typing, with each citizen assessed at the age of…
In an almost unprecedented move, a conclave of The Super Evil convened last year at a secret lair in North America to create a guide book for aspiring ne’er-do-wells. The result? A collection of papers known generally as A Method to the Madness: a Guide to the Super Evil, a collection destined to become the handbook globally of every evil genius. It was agreed such an undertaking required hiring of minion editors, as such a…