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What makes for vibrant Catholic literature? Is there something missing in Catholic literature today? A lively discussion on the subject has been unfolding over the past two years. Paul Elie started the discussion with a 2012 piece arguing that we are seeing a decline in serious engagement with faith…. Read more »
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CatholicMom’s The Accidental Marriage Book Club
by Ignatius Press Novels
February 25, 2015 11:07 am Leave a Comment
The Catholic Mom online book club for The Accidental Marriage by Roger Thomas starts this Saturday! Posts go live on Saturday mornings at 8AM Pacific/11Am Eastern time! Visit CatholicMom.com for more information.
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It doesn’t take much perception to see that in modern culture, romantic love is considered magic. Not merely “magical”, in the sense of a pleasant poetic attribute of a relationship, but actual magic, in the full sense that any true magician ever used the term. This is never articulated in… Read more »
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I’m going to run a risk and admit something in public that I’ve hitherto just bandied in private conversations. I do this understanding that I may be marched out to the middle of the hollow square and have my Catholic author’s buttons off and my stripes cut away, but that’s… Read more »
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IP Novels Digest: Thanksgiving Edition
by Ignatius Press Novels
November 5, 2014 8:49 am Leave a Comment
Readers just can’t get enough of Roger Thomas’ new novel! Sarah Reinhard at the National Catholic Register gives an insightful review on Roger Thomas’ The Accidental Marriage: “Love is misunderstood so often, so it shouldn’t be surprising that so many people misunderstand marriage. Marriage isn’t just about love the feeling:… Read more »
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The Freshest Love Story This Season Isn’t a Romance
by Ignatius Press Novels
October 29, 2014 11:52 am 4 Comments
In the wake of the Extraordinary Synod on the Family, there has been a renewed interest in talking about marriage and family—especially marriages and families that are in irregular situations. In Roger Thomas’s new novel, The Accidental Marriage, he traces a coupling that follows a highly irregular path. Scott and Megan… Read more »
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Video: Interview with Roger Thomas, Author of The Accidental Marriage
by Ignatius Press Novels
September 22, 2014 2:47 pm Leave a Comment
You can find The Accidental Marriage details here and buy it online (hardback or ebook). Roger Thomas switches hats from pro-life advocate to fiction writer in this interview. Thomas, who has two books of fiction with Ignatius, is promoting his latest, The Accidental Marriage, which covers an unconventional couple in… Read more »
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Roger Thomas is a lifelong Michigan resident, has been married to his wife Ellen since 1981. They have six grown children and eight grandchildren. He is a self-employed computer consultant. He loves reading, and his favorite authors include C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Rudyard Kipling, and P.G. Wodehouse. He has had… Read more »
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This review was originally published at A Prince of the West. I try to order new novels from my publisher whenever I can afford to, partly to encourage them to keep publishing fiction and partly out of solidarity with my fellow authors. Sadly, the results are sometimes mixed, but lately… Read more »
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Ignatius Press authors reviewing each other! Dorothy Cummings McLean (Ceremony of Innocence) reviews Fiorella de Maria’s Do No Harm for Catholic World Report: Apparently it is unusual for one Ignatius novelist to review another, but I cannot resist chatting about Fiorella de Maria’s excellent legal thriller Do No Harm. This… Read more »