Going Sideways with Gardening Book

This time last year we signed a publishing agreement with orphaned authors (part of the Key Porter meltdown) and well-known Canadian gardening gurus Patrick Lima and John Scanlan, to release an updated and revised version of their organic gardening book, aptly named The Organic Home Gardener. We just received the final manuscript late last week. Wow! There is a truckload of new information, recipes and sensible strategies for the home gardener interested in producing their own…

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Oct 2010

By Lorina StephensPatrick Lima, Publishing, The Organic Home GardenerComments Off

Shocking and Insightful Book from Nate Hendley

In the coming months we will be pleased to release Nate Hendley’s shocking and insightful book on methamphetamine, Crystal Death. Originally published by now defunct Altitude Publishing under the title of Crystal Meth, we decided to pick up the book when Nate offered it to us in 2009. Nate went back to the computer and completely revised, updated and reworked the book to reflect Canadian as well as American statistics, adding new interviews with addicts,…

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Oct 2010

By Lorina StephensCrystal Death, Nate Hendley, PublishingComments Off

Five Rivers Signs Debut Author, Shermin Kruse

We’re very pleased to announce we’ve signed another debut author, Shermin Kruse, and acquired the publishing rights to her novel, Butterfly Stitching. The novel is an honest, at times heart-breaking, window into the world of Samira, an Iranian woman caught in the contradictory and eventually revolutionary world of 1979 Tehran. Ultimately a very female novel, we feel very strongly this story will resonate not only with women on a global scale, but people who struggle…

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Oct 2010

By Lorina StephensButterfly Stitching, Information, Publishing, Shermin Kruse, writingComments Off

Call for Submissions

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…

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Sep 2010

By Lorina StephensInformation, Newsletter, Publishing, writingComments Off

Five Rivers’ Ten Commandments for Writers

I really never thought I’d succumb to this, to the detestable rules and protocols that gird the publishing world to the point of encumbrance and ritual. But here I am, amazed there are so many unprofessional people out there hawking their writing like desperate merchants at a flea market.So here are some cryptic DON’Ts by way of advice to all would-be hopefuls knocking on Five Rivers’ publishing doors. 1. DON’T submit without reading our guidelines…

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Jun 2010

By Lorina StephensInformation, Publishing, Views from the Old Stone House, writing4 Comments