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A Bloody Habit: News, Reviews, and Interviews!
by Ignatius Press Novels
October 24, 2018 6:42 pm Leave a Comment
Eleanor Bourg Nicholson has had a busy time since the release of her vampire novel A Bloody Habit. In addition to appearing on several podcasts, she’s also written a piece on dating vampires (she’s against it) and has been interviewed in print. The novel has also been collecting stellar reviews,… Read more »
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Video: Michael O’Brien on his novel “The Fool of New York City”
by Ignatius Press Novels
November 15, 2017 2:08 pm Leave a Comment
Clemens Cavallin, himself an artist and author who has written a biography of Michael D. O’Brien titled On the Edge of Infinity, recorded an interview with the novelist at his home. In the video, Michael O’Brien talks about his latest novel, The Fool of New York City. Watch the video… Read more »
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Fiction and murder most foul: A morbid topic for Catholics?
by John Herreid
July 24, 2017 6:26 pm Leave a Comment
Detective fiction and mystery novels have a long pedigree in the Catholic world. This may seem strange: Catholic and Christian authors writing about murder and crime? What’s up with that? Yet when you look at the long list of detective fiction writers, you’ll find many prominent names among them: G.K…. Read more »
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In Catholic World Report, writer K.V. Turley has been doing the great service of interviewing a wide range of Catholic writers and artists. So far, he has spoken with a number of authors including Catholic novelists Michael D. O’Brien and Fiorella De Maria. Here is a complete list of the… Read more »
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Robert Ovies’ first novel, The Rising, was acclaimed by readers as the sort of fast-paced thriller that grabs you from the first page and doesn’t let go until you’ve reached the back cover. His new novel, Barely a Crime, (read the first chapter here) is another spiritual thriller with even… Read more »
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..in this excellent profile of novelist Fiorella De Maria at the Catholic World Report website: During Lent 1998, a teenage girl, having just left an English convent school, knelt at the grotto of St. Jerome in the Holy Land. She prayed fervently, asking that through his intercession she would one… Read more »
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The “Author of the End of the World”?
by Ignatius Press Novels
November 16, 2015 3:27 pm Leave a Comment
The Catholic Weekly, an Australian Catholic newspaper, has released an in-depth interview with Michael D. O’Brien, speaking with him about his views on faith, writing, the end times, and his new novel Elijah in Jerusalem. It’s a fascinating conversation. Here are some excerpts: On the world today: We are now… Read more »
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Michael D. O’Brien is a best-selling novelist, an insightful social critic, and an acclaimed painter. In 1996 Ignatius Press published his debut novel, Father Elijah: An Apocalypse, a powerful story of a Carmelite priest’s confrontation with the Antichrist. Since then, Ignatius has published ten more of his novels. His writing… Read more »
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Fiorella De Maria is a novelist as well as an advocate for pro-life causes. Her novels include Poor Banished Children, Do No Harm, and her latest, We’ll Never Tell Them. She will be speaking in San Francisco later this month at the annual conference of the California Association Natural Family… Read more »
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Piers Paul Read on writing fiction, the Catholic novel today, and more!
by John Herreid
July 20, 2015 2:52 pm 1 Comment
Karl Schmude at The University Bookman has a new interview with Piers Paul Read, author of The Death of a Pope (and many other novels). Read is characteristically thoughtful and insightful in his comments about working as a writer, handling Catholic themes in contemporary literature, the hostility of modern culture… Read more »