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  1. John Herreid

    Plateaus and Gaps

    April 25, 2014 11:37 am 3 Comments

    When I first started working in graphic design, there was one book in particular that I wanted to design a cover for: Manalive by G.K. Chesterton. I even created some mock covers that have thankfully vanished in the mists of time. I wasn’t ready at that time to design a… Read more »

    Tags: creative process creativity design education

  2. An Interview with Robert Ovies

    April 24, 2014 3:19 pm 1 Comment

    Robert Ovies is the author of the thrilling new novel The Rising, which tells the story of a young boy who mysteriously gains the ability to bring the dead back to life. He also maintains a website about the book. Ignatius Press Novels interviewed him via e-mail. Is The Rising… Read more »

    Tags: author interviews creative process Robert Ovies The Rising writing

  3. Ignatius Press Novels

    A review of “Everywhere in Chains”

    April 22, 2014 6:43 pm Leave a Comment

    James Casper’s novel Everywhere in Chains is reviewed by Lady Rachel Billington OBE, daughter of the famed reformer Lord Longford: When I finished reading Everywhere in Chains, I realised why James Casper had felt indebted to my father’s ideas. It is a book with an unusually strong message and, although… Read more »

    Tags: Everywhere in Chains reviews

  4. An Interview with Michael Nicholas Richard

    April 16, 2014 9:39 am 4 Comments

    Michael Nicholas Richard is the author of the Ignatius Press novel Tobit’s Dog. He has also written another novel, Bogfoke, and a few published short stories, one of which can be found in the anthology Heroic Visions II. Michael also enjoys writing for his blog. Michael lives near New Bern,… Read more »

    Tags: author interviews Michael Richard Tobit's Dog

  5. Dorothy Cummings McLean

    Not a Catholic Novel

    April 15, 2014 8:05 am 12 Comments

    My husband is a convert from Anglo-Catholicism, that tendency in Anglicanism towards Catholic theology and worship, to the Roman Catholic Church, and he retains fond memories of the religious practices of his youth. He was rejected for the Anglican seminary by no less a personage than the wife of a… Read more »

    Tags: A.N. Wilson Anglicanism Catholic literature England Evelyn Waugh reviews

  6. John Herreid

    Enthusiasm Sells Books

    April 14, 2014 12:23 pm 4 Comments

    Working at a small publisher means wearing many hats. When asked by others what I do for a living I usually say, “I’m a graphic designer”. If I’m asked for a job description when filling out forms I usually put “catalog manager.” The reality is that I design book and… Read more »

    Tags: books promotion reading

  7. Why Waugh?

    April 10, 2014 12:07 pm 3 Comments

    If you made a list of writers who are masters at storytelling, masters of humor, and masters of English prose, it would be a short list. One who belongs on this list is Evelyn Waugh. British novelist and journalist, Evelyn Waugh, had three books listed among the Modern Library’s 100… Read more »

    Tags: Catholic literature Evelyn Waugh literature novelists S.S. Van Dine satire

  8. Meryl Kaleida

    To Obscurity and Beyond

    April 7, 2014 5:14 pm 3 Comments

    As this is my first post, I wanted to introduce myself by way of the novels I read. I enjoy the classic authors, some less well known, as well as some more mainstream/pop culture authors. I hope our readers will enjoy these as much as I do. Feel free to… Read more »

    Tags: classics novels recommendations

  9. John Herreid

    Creativity, Art, and the Symphony of Truth

    April 4, 2014 6:42 pm 7 Comments

    A few weeks ago, I took two of my children to the Legion of Honor museum here in San Francisco. My oldest, age six, is on the autism spectrum. We’d been to the museum before. Last time he had been so quickly overwhelmed that we had had to leave after… Read more »

    Tags: art autism creativity Rodin

  10. Dorothy Cummings McLean

    Airplane Books

    April 2, 2014 3:03 pm 4 Comments

    I spend the day in the grip of Agatha Christie’s The ABC Murders. Isn’t that terrible? My father once gave me a lecture on wasting good working hours on reading light fiction, but I couldn’t put my tablet down. I was utterly wrapped up in the mystery–in Hastings’ impatience, Poirot’s… Read more »

    Tags: Agatha Christie mystery reviews

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