Five Rivers at When Words Collide Festival

From the Desk of Robert Runte: Five Rivers will have seven authors and two staff attending the When Words Collide Festival in Calgary, August 14-16, 2015. It’s my favorite writers convention because of the high proportion of writers, the cross-genre orientation/cross-pollination, and the high quality of the programming. I missed that Susan MacGregor (pictured below) was going to WWC this year until after I’d already done the poster, but she’ll be there too, and doing…

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Jul 2015

By Lorina Stephensbook launch, Candas Jane Dorsey, Hawk, Hunter's Daughter, J.W. Schnarr, Jill Cabrera, Marie Powell, Nowick Gray, Robert Runte, Susan Bohnet, Susan Forest, Susan MacGregor, When Words CollideComments Off

5 stars for Hunter’s Daughter at LibraryThing

Great review in from a Early Reviewer at LibraryThing for Nowick Gray’s crime drama set in 1960s Ungava. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. I received this through the Early Reviewers’ program. This is by far the best book I have received through Library Thing’s Early Reviewers’ program.A tense crime story, this is not the usual sort of police procedural (a genre I read often and enjoy). The difference was that this is placed…

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Jun 2015

By Lorina StephensHunter's Daughter, Nowick Gray, ReviewsComments Off

Five from Five: Five Rivers’ Book Launch in Victoria BC

Please join us at 3:00 pm, Saturday, June 27th, at Royal Canadian Region Britannia Branch as Five Rivers launches five of our spring releases. It’s a chance to meet and greet (and get your book signed) by our authors: Paula Johanson, Dave Duncan and Nowick Gray. At this book launch, we are proud to present: Nowick Gray’s quintessential Northern mystery, Hunter’s Daughter Paula Johanson’s biography King Kwong: the China Clipper who broke the NHL…

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Jun 2015

By Lorina Stephensbook launch, Dave Duncan, Hunter's Daughter, King Kwong, Nowick Gray, Paula Johanson, The Adventures of Ivor, The Eye of Strife, Tower in the Crooked WoodComments Off

Nowick Gray discusses literature and cultural clash at WarpWorld

Nowick Gray, author of the quintessentially Northern mystery, Hunter’s Daughter, discusses literature and cultural clash at WarpWorld. Full article below: Most stories, fiction or non-fiction, contain some kind of conflict–cultural or otherwise–but what about the actual medium itself? Author Nowick Gray considers the culture clash between corporate media and literature and what that means to society. In my recently published novel of the Arctic, Hunter’s Daughter (Five Rivers, 2015) the very basis of the plot, themes and…

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Apr 2015

By Lorina StephensHunter's Daughter, Nowick GrayComments Off

Michell Plested interviews Nowick Gray on Get Published

Michell Plested, author of the popular YA series, Mik Murdoch, also authors and maintains an informative podcast, Get Published. Recently Michell interviewed Nowick Gray about his newly released murder-mystery which is set in Ungava. The podcast can be found here. And the first reader reviews are beginning to come in. This 4-star review on Goodreads. Hunter’s Daughter is available in print and eBook from online booksellers worldwide, and directly from Five Rivers.

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Apr 2015

By Lorina StephensHunter's Daughter, Interviews, Michell Plested, Mik Murdock, Nowick GrayComments Off