2011 Oregon Book & Author Fair

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If you’re in Southern Oregon Saturday, November 5, please join Debra Murphy and dozens of other Pacific Northwest writers (and a few publishers) at the 2011 Oregon Book and Authors Fair. Formerly known as the “Southern Oregon Book & Author Fair,” held annually in Ashland, the 2011 Fair, with a new name and under the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

New publishing home for Maureen McQuerry's Wolfproof books

We here at Idylls Press are both sad and thrilled that Maureen McQuerry’s Wolfproof books will soon be moving to a new publishing home, Abrams/Amulet. We are sad, of course, that they will no longer be published in Idylls Press editions, but thrilled that they will find a new audience and wider distribution through Amulet. [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

Join us at Writers Faire, Portland

Maureen McQuerry and Debra Murphy will be manning (womaning?) a table laden with Idylls Press books at the August 2 Writers Faire at the Sheraton Hotel at the Portland Airport. This annual event, sponsored by Williamette Writers and the Oregon Writers Colony, highlights the works of regional member/authors, and kicks off the annual Willamette Writers [...]