Join Debra Murphy at the Southern Oregon Book & Author Fair

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The 2010 Southern Oregon Book & Author Fair will be held on Saturday, November 20, 2010 at the Ashland Springs Hotel in Ashland, Oregon. Idylls Press founder and author Debra will be manning a table with her husband, Dan, for Idylls Press. Copies of Debra’s novel, The Mystery of Things, will be among the books [...]

The Mystery of Things reviewed on CatholicFiction.net

The Mystery of Things by Debra Murphy

Award-winning author Ellen Gable has published a review of Debra Murphy’s mystery-thriller The Mystery of Things on CatholicFiction.net. Here’s an excerpt: I have been wanting to read The Mystery of Things by Debra Murphy for a long time. I was fortunate enough to receive a copy of this book recently and, on one rainy Saturday, [...]

Illustrations from The Picture of Dorian Gray

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from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde illustrated byJohn Murphy The Idylls Press edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray contains thirteen new B/W illustrations by our talented young illustrator, John Murphy. Click on the image to see a larger version. Return to The Picture of Dorian Gray main page order the book

Farrell O'Gorman to speak at Christianity & Literature Conference

[N.B. This is the offical press release. Farrell O'Gorman is the Idylls Press author of Awaiting Orders.] Grove City College will host “Pilgrims in Place,” the 2010 Mideast Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature, on March 11-13. The conference seeks to explore interactions between Christianity, literature and notions of pilgrimage and place. The conference will [...]

Catholic Writers Conference Online

Join Idylls Press author and publisher Debra Murphy February 26 through March 5, 2010, for the Catholic Writers Conference Online, organized by the Catholic Writers Guild. Debra will be leading a five-day workshop, “Ten Commandments for Catholic Fiction Writers”, in which she will share some of the insights and resources she’s gleaned from several decades [...]