Barb Geiger From our humble beginnings in 2006, we’ve now expanded to 11 authors, with 11 books presently published, 12 books in various stages of editing and revision, and another five in negotiation. You might say we’ve been a bit busy. Robert Runte joined us as Editor in Chief three years ago. Earlier this year Amy Bright joined we happy few as an Editorial Intern. We’re now pleased to have Barb Geiger join us here…
A colleague of mine commented on the recent announcements from both Kobo and Amazon morphing into publishers, ‘What if Amazon gives preference to its own titles over other publishers’ titles in its distribution arm.’ In my opinion, given Amazon’s enormous marketing capability, and corporate culture of obfuscating facts, the potential to monopolize the entire beast of publishing, not just the long tail, is something to monitor. Kobo, it should be noted, is the silent but…
In an agreement reached late last week, Toronto-based author, Michael R. Fletcher signed his first novel, entitled 88, with Five Rivers. The novel deals with humanity’s ever-growing need for intelligent machines. Though the dream of artificial intelligence lies dead, biological intelligence, once migrated to a more useful platform, has supplied the answer. Black-market crèches, struggling to meet increasing demand, deal in the harvested brains of stolen children. But there is a digital snake in that fractally modeled…
We’re launching a new eBook only imprint, which will feature short, entertaining works both fiction and non-fiction, from 20,000 to 80,000 words. And we’re calling the imprint: The concept is to capture the commuter and mobile market with quick, easy to read stories, from purely commercial fiction (romance, SF&F, thriller, horror, historical, suspense, but most definitely not porn), to self-help, biographies and the eccentric overview of an arcane subject. We’ll be paying a royalty of…
Formatting the manuscript So now you’ve edited and honed your manuscript into the best possible work you can. And you’re ready to submit. Here at Five Rivers we’re big on less is more. So, pay attention to our submission requirements, which are: email only, no hard copy submissions DOC or RTF format Times New Roman 12 point typeface double-spaced 1” margins Do not under any circumstances use any of Word’s built-in formatting for chapters, headers,…