Faith, Fiction, Friends

The Joy of Baseball – Daniel Darling at One Little Word.  Know your rights as an author and don’t get scammed  – Nathan Bransford.   Submerg...

Six years ago, I published the last novel in the Dancing Priest series,  Dancing Prince . A good deal of it is set on a fictitious island na...

Pastor Bill Grandi has three posts last week on his rereading of my  Dancing Priest  series. On Tuesday, Bill discussed  the difficulty of r...

The title for this post is something of a “Well, duh” kind of title. For a story to work well, it’s the characters who have to take over and...

I read a lot of e-books. Reviewing poetry for   Tweetspeak Poetry   means I’m read a lot of collections in pdf or e-book formats. Reviewing ...

The character of David Hughes, twin brother of Sarah Hughes, has been a part of the Dancing Priest series from the beginning. In  Dancing Pr...

In 2012, I had a conversation with my publisher about the future novels planned in the Dancing Priest series.  Dancing Priest   had been pub...

I’ve  talked about how an exhibition at the Tate Modern  plays a critical role in  Dancing Prince . In turn, two paintings in the exhibition...

Some strange things have occasionally happened with the Dancing Priest stories. Strange, as in they anticipated some real news events. ...

It begins and ends with an open door.  “The first line of the book and the last line. It’s so subtle,” said Glynn Young, author of  D...

On July 1, with the publication of my fifth novel, I brought a five-book series to a conclusion. Each of the five was about 93,000 word...

Pastor Bill Grandi has published a review of Dancing Prince  at his blog, Cycleguy's Spin.  "What I want to say deals more wit...

In February, a woman at church asked me if I would be interested in talking with her book discussion club about  Dancing Priest . She h...

An exhibition at the  Tate Modern  plays a critical role in the story of  Dancing Prince .  Jason Kent-Hughes, whom readers first m...

Martha Orlando has published has a lovely review of Dancing Prince today at her blog: "What I want my readers to understand is that...

The first four Dancing Priest novels were about Michael Kent-Hughes. In the fifth,  Dancing Prince , the character who is stage center ...

Dancing Prince  has its first review on Amazon, and it’s a five-star. Thank you, Carla! “What does one say when you have lived so int...

“Did you write this?” My publisher asked me that question after reading the manuscript for the novella  Island . The reasons he ask...

Dancing Prince , the fifth and final novel in my  Dancing Priest series, is published today on Amazon. A mother's last words, a fa...

A mother's last words, a father's final message, and a strange painting: Michael Kent-Hughes faces personal tragedy, one that ...