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Summer hiatus

posted July 21st, 2008

Travelers Market by Maureen McQuerryFriends of CMO, Catholic Fiction and Idylls Press, please excuse our recent silence; we’ve been re-locating, both as a business and as a family. As is so often the case, I underestimated how challenging and time-consuming this process would be…will someone please remind me never to move again?

The good news is: we’ve sold our home of twelve years in Salem, and Clan Murphy has moved lock, stock and office to beautiful Ashland, Oregon, our favorite place on the planet.

The bad news is, we’re (literally) up to our eyeballs in boxes and anticipating several more weeks of Total Chaos. Ergo, we will continue to lay low on the internet for a while, though we’ll try to check messages and keep up as much as we can on direct orders, etc.

The other good news is that we’ll soon be anouncing the publication of the second book in Maureen McQuerry’s fabulous Wolfproof trilogy. recently featured on Catholic Radio Inernational’s Cover-to-Cover series. Travelers Market, illustrated by our very own John Murphy, is a wonderful sequel continuing the adventures of three middle-school children caught up in a parallel universe where creatures from Celtic and British mythology come alive to do great good…and sometimes great evil.

Check back in a few weeks!

Blogging the Pope’s Visit to America

posted April 16th, 2008

John Murphy, Idylls Press illustratorCMO reviewer and Idylls Press illustrator 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.

Ebert interviews Hitchcock

posted March 21st, 2008

Over at Roger Ebert’s website, they’re republishing an interview he did with the legendary director, Alfred Hitchcock, in 1969. Very entertaining. Hitch informs us:244hitchcockalfred100206.jpg

My pictures become classics, magically, with age. The critics never like them first time around. I remember when ‘Psycho’ first came out, one of the London critics called it a blot on an honorable career. And Time magazine panned it so badly that I was surprised, a year later, to find them referring to someone else’s thriller as being ‘in the classic “Psycho” tradition.

Here’s the full interview.