A reader recently wrote in to LDS Publisher asking, “Is there any hope of selling a poetry collection to any publisher?”
The answer, of course, is: No.
LDS Publisher puts it more diplomatically, of course:
The only way you’re going to sell a book of poetry to an LDS publisher is if it’s a gift book, a children’s [...]

The news that Coke Newell’s novel On the Road to Heaven won Best Novel at the new Whitney Awards could have interesting implications for the LDS market, at least in my wishful thinking. Since the novel also won the Association for Mormon Letters’ Novel award earlier this year, Newell’s work is clearly the consensus novel [...]

The theme for this year’s AML Annual Meeting was “Scripture as Literature and Scripture in Literature.”  This theme provided for the usual wide variety of papers, but the marked emphasis on scripture evoked a different atmosphere from other AML meetings.  One attendee I met while I waited to register told me that she had fasted before coming to the conference.    

I was at first hestitant to accept Deseret Book’s offer of a review copy of Mormon Scientist: The Life and Faith of Henry Eyring. I don’t usually review non-fiction titles. And it looked to me like the book would be a fairly mundane biography that prizes devotional discourse over literary value.
I was right.
And yet I [...]

At the risk of beating a topic into the ground, I have one more observation on Minerva Teichert. Last week I again found myself in Provo on a quick trip and ended up with two close college friends to entertain and an hour to kill. So I took them to see Pageants in Paint. They both [...]

The Association for Mormon Letters awards are made to writing, film, and drama published or produced during the previous year and are awarded during AML’s Annual Meeting, usually held in the late winter or early spring of each year. The winners of the 2007 awards are:

Deseret Book’s “Conference Sale” mailing arrived earlier this week. Perhaps riffing off of its Time Out for Woman brand, Deseret Book has themed each of its sections with “A time to [appropriate verb].” It’s an interesting marketing strategy in that it not only extends the idea of women taking time out for themselves (and if [...]

Editor’s Note: The following guest post is from Laura H. Craner, AMV commenter and blogger at LDS Readers.
Notes from a Church Cultural Arts Committee Luncheon
February 2007
I was late. I hate being late and I was late. As I walked into the spacious hall on the top floor of the Church Office building I could see [...]