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What About Jer3miah?

6.12.09

The final episode of the first season of The Book of Jer3miah is supposed to be posted sometime today. I watched all 19 of the previous episodes earlier this week (each episode is only about 5 minutes long), and I have to say that I think its worth a look.

LDS Market Mystery

5.29.09

Quick: What’s the largest genre in fiction? Among Science Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Espionage/Thriller, Mystery/Detective Fiction, etc., what sells the most books?
And, why is there so little of the largest genre in the LDS market?

A Spoonful of Detective Fiction

4.16.09

Makes the anti-Mormon propaganda go down. Also: putting the sleuth of Baker Street in his place on completely neutral terms unrelated to century-old tribal grudges.

Horror In Happy Valley: “Turn of the Screw” and “Nosferatu”

10.28.08

Something wicked this way comes to Utah Valley in the form of two shadowed shapes, masquerading as highly theatrical plays. The Turn of the Screw at The Covey Center for the Arts, and Nosferatu at Utah Valley University are both superb pieces of theater that deserve sold out audiences and loud applause. They both boast superb casts and visionary [...]

The Art of Friends, Not Rivals: Shannon Hale and Stephenie Meyer

9.06.08

Several months ago my lovely wife Anne and I had the privilege to go to a retreat hosted twice a year by the Mormon Artists Foundation. Founded by James Christensen (rightfully famous for his art of fantasy and his fantastic art) and Doug Stewart (playwright of the groundbreaking Saturday’s Warrior), it’s always one of the [...]

Eugene Woodbury’s new novel — published by Zarahemla, serialized for free

5.27.08

Mormon author Eugene Woodbury is continuing the experiment with giving away his work for free that he and I discussed in an April 20 Q&A. His new novel Angel Falling Softly will be published by Zarahemla Books this fall, but starting next month Eugene will begin posting a chapter of the novel each week.
Here is [...]

Coke Newell’s semi-autobiographical novel and publishing momentum

8.14.07

Dallas Robbins has already posted an announcement about three new titles from Zarahemla Books over at This Mormon Life. I have read one of the new books — Coke Newell’s semi-autobiographical novel On the Road to Heaven — and highly recommend it. The plot itself doesn’t break much ground. It’s the typical conversion/missionary novel thing [...]

BOOK REVIEW: “Brother Brigham” by D. Michael Martindale

11.14.06

Brother Brigham, a supernatural thriller by D. Michael Martindale, is one of Zarahemla Books flagship titles for the year (in fact, one of its first titles). It is a book whose title I have heard bandied about for quite some time, had even read a segment of it which Martindale had put a teaser on [...]