(The above is a picture of John Murphy, the illustrator of Wolfproof and the Idylls Press edition of G.K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday. )
I got the profound sense, talking with folks at the trade show, that there are vast changes underway in the book business and that many publishers and booksellers will not [...]

Last weekend Idylls Press exhibited for the first time ever at a book trade show, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association trade show in Portland, OR. We rented a 4-ft booth to display our first four books, and in particular tried to get the word out to regional booksellers about Farrell O’Gorman’s Awaiting Orders and Washington [...]

Assorted members of Clan Murphy are attending the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Assocation fall trade show in Portland this weekend, shilling our new Idylls Press books and generally trying to learn from the pros and booksellers at hand.
In the meantime, trot over to Godspy to read my (Portland-based) friend Kathleen Lundquist’s little piece (”A Proper [...]

Tags: Flannery O'Connor, Milledgeville

John has posted a very thoughtful review of Walker Percy’s classic Catholic novel The Moviegoer on catholicfiction.net.

Midori Snyder, mythopoeic novelist and artist and co-founder of the wonderful Endicott Studio (an “interdisciplinary organization dedicated to the creation and support of mythic art”) has posted a lovely blog about the Green Man featuring Maureen McQuerry.
Maureen is the author of Idylls Press’ new YA fantasy Wolfproof, which is being published this month and [...]