Sally McBride We’re pleased to announce Sally McBride has signed with Five Rivers to publish her YA novel Indigo Time. The novel is a story about Marrula Tamara, once Empress of Worlds, who has been exiled for treachery to a planet called Strand. She has one great treasure: the engineered horse Raj’azul. In his blood lies the secret of her immortality, and the seed of her downfall. As her fellow exiles form a primitive society, centuries…
Indeed it has been amazing year at Five Rivers. Never did we imagine when we first started this publishing venture in 2007 it would grow to such an enterprise. This year we published nine new books, bringing our catalogue to 22 publications. We also signed 15 additional authors and have committed to publishing in excess of 50 books over the next four years. We did something we never thought we would have to do: we…
Robert Fletcher It would seem Five Rivers is in the orchard business, if we can borrow from the metaphor of fruit not falling far from the tree. We’ve published sibling authors Alicia and Nate Hendley; mother and daughter authors Lorina and Kelly Stephens (Kelly’s novel, 5000 Kilometre Journey, will release in 2013), and next year father and son authors, Michael R. Fletcher (the son, and author of the dystopian SF novel 88) and now Robert Fletcher….
Many of you will scratch your heads over this post, wondering why Five Rivers is promoting another publisher’s project. It’s quite simple: Five Rivers believes in supporting the arts in Canada, and if that means we give over some of our space from time to time to discuss what we think is a worthy project, well, that’s just what we’ll do. In this case we’re supporting ChiZine Publications and what promises to be a fabulous…
Against my better judgement, Five Rivers applied this fall for a Canada Council Grant, under the Book Publishing Support, Emerging Publishers division. As I knew would occur, our application has been summarily denied. In our application we submitted 22 books, and a line-up next year that would make many publishers examine 50 shades of green. Five Rivers’ application, however has been denied without even cracking the cover of any of the worthies which thus far…