Lorina Stephens's Blog, page 39
June 27, 2014
Interview with Prix Aurora nominees, Susan Forest and D.G. Laderoute
Susan Forest and D.G. Laderoute talk about what it means to be short-listed for the Prix Aurora.
Short-listed for Best Fiction
The Gift, by Susan Forest
short-listed for Best Short Story
short-listed for Best YA Fiction
To download the voters' package, and to vote, visit: http://www.prixaurorawards.ca
Short-listed for Best Fiction
The Gift, by Susan Forestshort-listed for Best Short Story
short-listed for Best YA FictionTo download the voters' package, and to vote, visit: http://www.prixaurorawards.ca
June 25, 2014
Dave Duncan's The Runner and the Kelpie available for pre-order
ISBN 9781927400654 $11.99eISBN 9781927400661 $4.99
releases August 1, 2014
The third book of Duncan's Runner series is now available for pre-order directly from Five Rivers and online booksellers globally, in both print and eBook.
In this final installation, the wyrd-woman warns Ivor he's going to meet a monster. He doesn't believe her. He thinks he has worse things to worry about. He's wrong about both.
The cover is once again the inspiration and genius of Five Rivers' Art Director, Jeff Minkevics.
Format Print $11.99 CAD eBook $4.99 CAD
June 23, 2014
Mik Murdoch: The Power Within contest and pre-order
Ever since Michell Plested's debut YA novel, Mik Murdoch: Boy Superhero, released in 2012, fans and readers across Canada, United States, United Kingdom, and Australia have been clamoring for the sequel. If you, like all of us at Five Rivers, are one of those twitching fans, your happy day is about to happen.
releases August 1, 2014
directly from Five Rivers Publishing
and online booksellers globally
Format Print $21.99 CAD eBook $4.99 CAD
The sequel, Mik Murdoch: The Power Within, releases August 1, 2014, and we're pleased to be accepting pre-orders for both print and eBook copies.
In book two, Mik Murdoch has swallowed the magical berry from the guardian of the Cave of Wonders and with it he’s realized his dream to acquire superpowers. He’s also realized what you wish for and what you get are often two different things. While Mik has superpowers, he’s having a really hard time with control. In fact, he’s starting to wonder whether being a boy superhero is a good thing or not.
What’s worse, his weird behaviour doesn’t go unnoticed by his parents, who decide to take him away to the lake for the summer, assuming he needs time to unwind, relax. It’s there, however, Mik uncovers the truth behind an ancient mystery and learns that letting others help doesn’t make him weak.
And there's a contest!So, here's the deal. Get yourself a copy of Mik Murdoch: The Power Within as soon as you're able. Read it. All of it. And while you're doing that remember all your best scouting lessons, because you're going to need them. In fact, mapping skills is what you're going to need. Why? Because there are coordinates you're going to need, and once you find them you have to pinpoint the exact location for us, email us what you've found with your super-mapping powers. If you're the first, you'll win a free digital copy of D.G. Laderoute's fabulous YA fantasy, Out of Time.
So, Mik fans everywhere, stay alert and happy reading!
releases August 1, 2014directly from Five Rivers Publishing
and online booksellers globally
Format Print $21.99 CAD eBook $4.99 CAD
The sequel, Mik Murdoch: The Power Within, releases August 1, 2014, and we're pleased to be accepting pre-orders for both print and eBook copies.
In book two, Mik Murdoch has swallowed the magical berry from the guardian of the Cave of Wonders and with it he’s realized his dream to acquire superpowers. He’s also realized what you wish for and what you get are often two different things. While Mik has superpowers, he’s having a really hard time with control. In fact, he’s starting to wonder whether being a boy superhero is a good thing or not.
What’s worse, his weird behaviour doesn’t go unnoticed by his parents, who decide to take him away to the lake for the summer, assuming he needs time to unwind, relax. It’s there, however, Mik uncovers the truth behind an ancient mystery and learns that letting others help doesn’t make him weak.
And there's a contest!So, here's the deal. Get yourself a copy of Mik Murdoch: The Power Within as soon as you're able. Read it. All of it. And while you're doing that remember all your best scouting lessons, because you're going to need them. In fact, mapping skills is what you're going to need. Why? Because there are coordinates you're going to need, and once you find them you have to pinpoint the exact location for us, email us what you've found with your super-mapping powers. If you're the first, you'll win a free digital copy of D.G. Laderoute's fabulous YA fantasy, Out of Time.
So, Mik fans everywhere, stay alert and happy reading!
June 20, 2014
King of Shadows now available for pre-order
The fifth book in Ann Marston's epic fantasy, King of Shadows: The Rune Blades of Celi, is now available for pre-order.
Always a master storyteller, Ann Marston's novels have been delighting fans for years, and we're pleased to bring back this series in its entirety. Next year will see not only the sixth book, Sword and Shadow, return in February, but the addition of a brand new novel in the series, Bane's Choice, which will release just in time for Christmas 2015.
We know you're going to enjoy discovering, or re-discovering this sweeping story of swords, their bearers, and a people striving to overcome annihilation.
Format Print $27.99 CAD eBook $9.99 CAD
Always a master storyteller, Ann Marston's novels have been delighting fans for years, and we're pleased to bring back this series in its entirety. Next year will see not only the sixth book, Sword and Shadow, return in February, but the addition of a brand new novel in the series, Bane's Choice, which will release just in time for Christmas 2015.
We know you're going to enjoy discovering, or re-discovering this sweeping story of swords, their bearers, and a people striving to overcome annihilation.
Format Print $27.99 CAD eBook $9.99 CAD
June 18, 2014
A Touch of Poison now available for pre-order
It's a busy summer here at Five Rivers, and we're pleased to let our fans and readers know Aaron Kite's Wattie Award-winning YA fantasy is now available for pre-order through Five Rivers' website, as well as from online retailers globally.
Gwenwyn is the most miserable princess ever, and for good reason. Merely brushing up against her or touching her exposed skin is enough to cause painful burns, or worse. And if that wasn't enough, she's just discovered the singular reason for her existence: to act as the king's secret assassin, murdering neighboring princes with nothing more than a simple kiss.
This is definitely a fantasy with a twist, and a surprise ending which completely hoodwinked editor and publisher, Lorina Stephens who often cries spoilers much to the chagrin of her friends of colleagues.
Format Print $19.99 CAD eBook $4.99 CAD
Gwenwyn is the most miserable princess ever, and for good reason. Merely brushing up against her or touching her exposed skin is enough to cause painful burns, or worse. And if that wasn't enough, she's just discovered the singular reason for her existence: to act as the king's secret assassin, murdering neighboring princes with nothing more than a simple kiss.
This is definitely a fantasy with a twist, and a surprise ending which completely hoodwinked editor and publisher, Lorina Stephens who often cries spoilers much to the chagrin of her friends of colleagues.
Format Print $19.99 CAD eBook $4.99 CAD
June 17, 2014
Nate Hendley meet and greet at Guelph Chapters
Five Rivers author, Nate Hendley, will be taking part in a “meet the crime author” event at Chapter’s in Guelph, Ontario on Saturday, July 5 from 11 am – 3 pm.
Nate Hendley at Toronto's Word on the StreetHe will be signing copies of his true-crime book, Steven Truscott: Decades of Injustice, about a notorious case of wrongful conviction in Canada.
Hendley will be one of four awesome crime/mystery authors at this event.
All four authors are members of the Crime Writers of Canada, a national organization representing fiction and non-fiction mystery and crime writers.
This meet and greet is free and open to the public.
Chapter’s Guelph is located at 435 Stone Road West, Guelph, Ontario.
Contact Nate Hendley for more information: nhendley@sympatico.ca
June 16, 2014
My Life as a Troll available for pre-order
Susan Bohnet's debut YA urban fantasy novel, My Life as a Troll, is now available for pre-order through Five Rivers' website in both print and eBook, and will be shortly through online retailers globally.
available soon from online booksellers worldwide
My Life as a Troll is a sometimes funny, always engaging, fascinating romp into the world of online gaming, through the escapades of Jared, who is doing everything humanly, and sometimes not humanly, possible to deal with family friction, the school bully and the discovery of that alien counterpart: girls.
We're very sure whether you're 14 or 94, you're going to find this novel a winner.
Format Print $26.99 CAD eBook $4.99 CAD
available soon from online booksellers worldwideMy Life as a Troll is a sometimes funny, always engaging, fascinating romp into the world of online gaming, through the escapades of Jared, who is doing everything humanly, and sometimes not humanly, possible to deal with family friction, the school bully and the discovery of that alien counterpart: girls.
We're very sure whether you're 14 or 94, you're going to find this novel a winner.
Format Print $26.99 CAD eBook $4.99 CAD
June 10, 2014
LibraryThing reviewer 4 stars for Wasps at the Speed of Sound
The following 4-star review appeared on LibraryThing for Derryl Murphy's collection of short eco-fiction, Wasps at the Speed of Sound.
ISBN 9781927400432 $19.99
eISBN 9781927400449 $4.99
from Five Rivers Publishing
and online booksellers worldwide
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.Before I start down I look one more time in the stream. I can see nothing swimming in it, no fish, no beetle.
As I walk, I wish there were still birds to sing to me.
Eleven stories about the end of the world as we know it. Although the overall theme of the book is ecological disaster, apocalypse comes in many forms, from invading aliens, water shortages, and garbage-covered oceans, to swarms of huge insects and far future earth that is about to be swallowed by the sun. "What Goes Around" is a more light-hearted story and brings a bit of light relief to the book.
The only story I disliked was "Summer's Humans", which was inspired by Nadine Gordimer's story "July's People". The characters were unpleasant and the aliens' constant hair-shedding made me shudder in disgust (although that was probably the point).
My favourite story was The History of Photography, which was subtle and lyrical and poignant. The author said that when this story appeared in a photography magazine, the readers sent in lots of irate letters complaining about inaccuracies, as the magazine hadn't made it clear that it was fiction. "Those Graves of Memory" and "Wasps at the Speed of Sound" make up my top three. (
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ISBN 9781927400432 $19.99eISBN 9781927400449 $4.99
from Five Rivers Publishing
and online booksellers worldwide
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.Before I start down I look one more time in the stream. I can see nothing swimming in it, no fish, no beetle.As I walk, I wish there were still birds to sing to me.
Eleven stories about the end of the world as we know it. Although the overall theme of the book is ecological disaster, apocalypse comes in many forms, from invading aliens, water shortages, and garbage-covered oceans, to swarms of huge insects and far future earth that is about to be swallowed by the sun. "What Goes Around" is a more light-hearted story and brings a bit of light relief to the book.
The only story I disliked was "Summer's Humans", which was inspired by Nadine Gordimer's story "July's People". The characters were unpleasant and the aliens' constant hair-shedding made me shudder in disgust (although that was probably the point).
My favourite story was The History of Photography, which was subtle and lyrical and poignant. The author said that when this story appeared in a photography magazine, the readers sent in lots of irate letters complaining about inaccuracies, as the magazine hadn't made it clear that it was fiction. "Those Graves of Memory" and "Wasps at the Speed of Sound" make up my top three. (
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| flagisabelx | Jun 8, 2014 |
June 4, 2014
Debut novel from Albertan author Susan Bohnet
When Five Rivers' Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Robert Runté heard Susan Bohnet's pitch for My Life as a Troll at Calgary's When Words Collide, he was immediately taken by the concept.
August 1, 2014 sees the realization of several years of hard work from Bohnet and that successful pitch, in the release of a deliciously humorous and captivating YA novel, My Life as a Troll.
available August 1, 2014
from Five Rivers Publishing
and online booksellers internationally
ISBN 9781927400630, 344 pages, 6x9 trade paperback, $26.99
eISBN 9781927400647 $4.99
The premise of the novel revolves around young Jared dealing with family friction, the school bully, and the discovery of girls. As a result Jared seeks refuge in Lavascape, the hottest new Internet game around. But, there’s something creepy about how addicting the game is and how troll-like Jared starts to become in real life.
Susan Bohnet has an Associate Degree in Arts and Letters with a major in psychology from Ricks College and a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in Human Resource Development from Brigham Young University. She lives in Alberta with her husband, five children, and a cute (but rather naughty) Yorkshire terrier. She has written a newspaper column called Family Frenzi for eighteen years and has had two short stories published. My Life as a Troll is her first novel. She can be found at http://susanbohnet.com/
The cover is the genius of Five Rivers' Art Director, Jeff Minkevics, who was going for contrasts and transitions both to reflect the contrasts and transitions in the narrative of Bohnet's novel, and as a visual hook.
My Life as a Troll releases in both print and eBook August 1, and launches at this year's When Words Collide.
August 1, 2014 sees the realization of several years of hard work from Bohnet and that successful pitch, in the release of a deliciously humorous and captivating YA novel, My Life as a Troll.
available August 1, 2014from Five Rivers Publishing
and online booksellers internationally
ISBN 9781927400630, 344 pages, 6x9 trade paperback, $26.99
eISBN 9781927400647 $4.99
The premise of the novel revolves around young Jared dealing with family friction, the school bully, and the discovery of girls. As a result Jared seeks refuge in Lavascape, the hottest new Internet game around. But, there’s something creepy about how addicting the game is and how troll-like Jared starts to become in real life.
Susan Bohnet has an Associate Degree in Arts and Letters with a major in psychology from Ricks College and a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in Human Resource Development from Brigham Young University. She lives in Alberta with her husband, five children, and a cute (but rather naughty) Yorkshire terrier. She has written a newspaper column called Family Frenzi for eighteen years and has had two short stories published. My Life as a Troll is her first novel. She can be found at http://susanbohnet.com/
The cover is the genius of Five Rivers' Art Director, Jeff Minkevics, who was going for contrasts and transitions both to reflect the contrasts and transitions in the narrative of Bohnet's novel, and as a visual hook.
My Life as a Troll releases in both print and eBook August 1, and launches at this year's When Words Collide.
May 28, 2014
Mik Murdoch: The Power Within releases August 1
The much-anticipated sequel to Mik Murdoch: Boy Superhero, by Calgarian author Michell Plested, releases August 1, 2014.
Michell Plested has been reading science fiction and fantasy since he was six years old, and writing for almost as long. He is an author, blogger, and podcaster living in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He writes in multiple genres, spending most of his time with science fiction, fantasy, and YA adventure.
He is the host of the writing podcast Get Published, (a 2009 Parsec Finalist) and the science fiction comedy podcast GalaxyBillies, which has been called 'Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets Beverley Hillbillies' by his listeners.
His first novel, Mik Murdoch: Boy Superhero, was shortlisted for the 2013 Prix Aurora for Best YA Novel.
Michell Plested can be found through his website at http://www.michellplested.com/
releases August 1, 2014
ISBN 9781927400678 $21.99
eISBN 9781927400685 $4.99
available from Five Rivers
and online retailers internationally
Mik Murdoch: The Power Within, picks up the story after Mik Murdoch has swallowed the magical berry from the guardian of the Cave of Wonders and with it he’s realized his dream to acquire superpowers. He’s also realized what you wish for and what you get are often two different things. While Mik has superpowers, he’s having a really hard time with control. In fact, he’s starting to wonder whether being a boy superhero is a good thing or not.
What’s worse, his weird behaviour doesn’t go unnoticed by his parents, who decide to take him away to the lake for the summer, assuming he needs time to unwind, relax. It’s there, however, Mik uncovers the truth behind an ancient mystery and learns that letting others help doesn’t make him weak.
The official launch for Mik Murdoch: The Power Within, takes place at this year's When Words Collide. Along with Michell Plested's new release, Five Rivers will feature:
My Life as a Troll, by Susan BohnetThe Runner and the Kelpie, by Dave DuncanA Touch of Poison, by Aaron KiteThe Tattooed Seer, by Susan MacGregorKing of Shadows, Book 5: The Rune Blades of Celi, by Ann MarstonThe fabulous cover, continuing the theme of the first novel, is the work of genius artist, and Five Rivers' Art Director, Jeff Minkevics.
Michell Plested has been reading science fiction and fantasy since he was six years old, and writing for almost as long. He is an author, blogger, and podcaster living in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He writes in multiple genres, spending most of his time with science fiction, fantasy, and YA adventure.
He is the host of the writing podcast Get Published, (a 2009 Parsec Finalist) and the science fiction comedy podcast GalaxyBillies, which has been called 'Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets Beverley Hillbillies' by his listeners.
His first novel, Mik Murdoch: Boy Superhero, was shortlisted for the 2013 Prix Aurora for Best YA Novel.
Michell Plested can be found through his website at http://www.michellplested.com/
releases August 1, 2014ISBN 9781927400678 $21.99
eISBN 9781927400685 $4.99
available from Five Rivers
and online retailers internationally
Mik Murdoch: The Power Within, picks up the story after Mik Murdoch has swallowed the magical berry from the guardian of the Cave of Wonders and with it he’s realized his dream to acquire superpowers. He’s also realized what you wish for and what you get are often two different things. While Mik has superpowers, he’s having a really hard time with control. In fact, he’s starting to wonder whether being a boy superhero is a good thing or not.
What’s worse, his weird behaviour doesn’t go unnoticed by his parents, who decide to take him away to the lake for the summer, assuming he needs time to unwind, relax. It’s there, however, Mik uncovers the truth behind an ancient mystery and learns that letting others help doesn’t make him weak.
The official launch for Mik Murdoch: The Power Within, takes place at this year's When Words Collide. Along with Michell Plested's new release, Five Rivers will feature:
My Life as a Troll, by Susan BohnetThe Runner and the Kelpie, by Dave DuncanA Touch of Poison, by Aaron KiteThe Tattooed Seer, by Susan MacGregorKing of Shadows, Book 5: The Rune Blades of Celi, by Ann MarstonThe fabulous cover, continuing the theme of the first novel, is the work of genius artist, and Five Rivers' Art Director, Jeff Minkevics.
