CatholicMom.com's March Book Club pick

Maureen McQuerry’s Travelers Market, the second book in her Wolfproof trilogy, has been chosen by Lisa Hendey of the CatholicMom.com’s Book Club as the March fiction selection. Congratulations, Maureen!

News from Idylls Press, January 2009

SITE NEWS: Idylls Press - Catholic Fiction -Catholic Film Reviews - Bardolatry Our apologies that January has seen a few days of wonky-looking Idylls Press-family websites as we moved our sites to a new server. There’s still a bit left to do, but the worst is over! Along with the webdust, however, have come several lovely new [...]

idylls Press at Southern Oregon Book and Author Fair

John and I will once again be participating in the Southern Oregon Book and Author Fair, Saturday, November 15, 2008, selling (at a very nice Fair discount!) and signing copies of our Idylls Press books. No doubt I will also be buying/trading books books from/with other authors as well—I am always impressed by the quality [...]

more on Idylls books in the Pauline bookstores

Pauline Cooperator and Idylls’ friend Rae Stabosz has a lovely blog on the new “Storytelling in the Catholic Imagination” sections of five major Pauline Books and Media Centers. (For store locations, see our previous post.) Above all, how exciting to see Rae’s pictures from the Philadelphia store, with two of our books sitting on the [...]

Idylls Press in Pauline bookstores!

As many of you are aware, one of our biggest challenges here at Idylls Press has been to get our books (and Catholic fiction in general) into Catholic bookstores. Catholic bookstore shelves, as you know, have traditionally been stocked with Bibles, devotionals, religious gifts, and nonfiction books on apologetics, theology, and Church history. Indeed, though [...]

Blogging the Pope's Visit to America

Idylls Press illustrator and book designer John Murphy has copped the enviable job of flying to Washington D.C. and New York this week to blog for GodSpy on Pope Benedict’s visit to America. John’s first post, America: Encounter the Pope can be read here. His latest posts will appear on the GodSpy front page.

Wolfproof on Catholic Radio International

IT’S UP! LISTEN TO A FABULOUS AUDIOBOOK READING BY SYLVIA DORHAM OF MAUREEN MCQUERRY’S WOLFPROOF, NOW ON CATHOLIC RADIO INTERNATIONAL. Great news for Idylls Press readers and audio/bibliophiles: Maureen McQuerry’s Narnia-esque fantasy, Wolfproof, has begun to air on Catholic Radio International. New chapters will appear on CRI’s Cover to Cover program every Monday, Wednesday, and [...]

Updated Reviews

We’ve been having some technical difficulties with our Idyllist blog, so can’t update it for a bit, but there are new posts and reviews on both Catholic Fiction and Catholic Movies Online—the latter on OSCAR present and past. We are majorly rooting for the Coen Brothers’ masterpiece, No Country for Old Men, adapted from (Catholic [...]

John Murphy’s Author Portraits

Flannery O'Connor, by John Murphy

We’ve just added three new Christian author portraits to our Cafe Press page: John Keats, Joseph Conrad, and Oscar Wilde! You can have their familiar faces printed on t-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, aprons, mousepads, journals, postcards, and (my personal favorite) a beer stein. Might make a good Christmas present for the family bibliophile. Of course, if [...]

News

Idylls press (and Clan Murphy) is in the process of moving to beautiful Ashland, Oregon! We are very excited on many levels. Ashland is a mini-mecca for creative people in every area of the arts, and we doubt Idylls Press could find a home more conducive to fostering literary and publishing creativity. But sorting and [...]