According to a May 31 Deseret News story, Mike Allred’s comic serialization of the Book of Mormon — “The Golden Plates” — is selling well. Vol. I is already in its third printing, and Vol. II came out last week.
It’s hard to say what the benchmark for a series like this should be. But Douglas [...]

Jack Harrell’s novel Vernal Promises is one of the best works of Mormon fiction to appear so far. It’s about Jacob and Pam Dennison — a young couple with Mormonism in their past who find that turning away from their wild life and joining (or re-joining) the fold isn’t easy.
I haven’t felt inclined to write [...]

In spite of his often-expressed distaste for academia, Orson Scott Card has given into the lure of the cushy life as a distinguished professor — he has joined the faculty of Southern Virginia University, an LDS-oriented liberal arts college. He will teach writing and literature courses.
The details can be found in this SVU press [...]

Deseret Book has posted excerpts from its three spring fiction titles on its Mormon Life Web site.
The Mist of Quarry Harbor by Morgan Adair appears to be a typical Mormon romance novel. Or at least a phrase from the excerpt — “a pair of brown eyes above a strong jaw and a rectangular smile that [...]

I can’t resist sharing one more selection from Marilynn Robinson’s Gilead [for previous selections see this Bloggernacle Times column]:
“In every important way we are such secrets from each other, and I do believe that there is a separate language in each of us, also a separate aesthetics and a separate jurisprudence. Every single one of [...]

The LDS Film Festival has announced the winners of its 2005 script competition. First place went to D. Kohl Glass for “The Strawberries of Eldritch” (great title that). Glass is a BYU graduate. His short film “The Promethean” won several awards in 2003/04, including first prize in the 2004 LDS Film Festival film competition. Here’s [...]