We’ve had a fabulous year so far at Five Rivers, releasing seven books, and signing contracts for at least that many more. This fall and winter will continue what we’ve started this year, with the release of eight books, possibly more. What do we have lined up for you? Just take a look. My Life as a Troll, by Susan Bohnet Debut author Susan Bohnet has the second book in our new YA line. My…
Today’s blogging is essentially an update of our progress here at Five Rivers. Oh, we have been busy. One might even say frenetic. Here goes: Mike Fletcher is working on the revision of 88, and should have that to us by the close of April. He says the revision is going well, and that we’ve ruined him for ever again enjoying the act of reading fiction. Apparently phrases like: expository lump, or inconsistent POV, or…
Things are cooking along here at Five Rivers, and just two weeks into 2012. North by 2000+ by H.A. Hargreaves is now available for preorder in print from Amazon and Barnes and Noble and available from them and Smashwords immediately in digital format. It is soon to be available through Apple and Kobo. It can also be ordered directly through Five Rivers. Discounts are available for class sets for schools and universities, as well as…
Five Rivers Chapmanry is an independent micro-publisher of fiction and non-fiction, giving voice to new and established Canadian authors. Five Rivers is committed to bringing publishing back to uncompromising personal editors where it belongs, rather than focus-group marketing. We publish real books by real authors for real readers. We employ print-on-demand technologies as part of responsible management of environmental and financial resources: by printing only the books required, rather than warehousing thousands, we save…
With all the new enhancements Blogger offers, we thought we’d take some time to give ourselves a bit of a sprucing. Along with making the layout a little cleaner and brighter, we’ve added some funky features we hope you’ll like. The first of these is the social network sharing device. Now you can instantly add a post you wish to share to your email, Blogger blog, Twitter, Facebook and Google Buzz. You can also link…