We listened. When we heard the wailing and horror from all our Canadian fans and readers regarding the significant jump in price which occurred earlier this year, due to the falling loonie, we’ve decided to slash our Canadian prices. Effectively immediately on our site you will find all our print books listed at the same price as the U.S. For all our retail partners, a price change is forthcoming from our distributor, Ingram, effective August…

It is too often the case in many of the manuscripts I see, the author is in such a rush to tell his story the entire narrative devolves to exposition. In other words, the author is telling rather than showing. Why avoid exposition? The answer to that is quite simple. When you’re telling your reader instead of showing, you remove the reader from the story. You’re intruding. That suspension of disbelief shatters because all action…

Five Rivers Editor, Amy Bright, launched her first YA novel, Before We Go in Lethbridge, Alberta, Thursday evening (May 24). The book is published by Red Deer Press. Amy talked about the book, her other writing projects, and her development as a writer She also read two brief excerpts from the novel. Amy signing her book. Set in Victoria, one feature of the novel that stands out among YA literature is that it all takes…