Author and Novelist Glynn Young
By Glynn Young In this fourth novel in the Dancing Priest series, Michael Kent-Hughes confronts a collapsing, scandal-wracked church and a collapsing city government. A trusted advisor finally confronts his own troubled past. Three teenagers ignite a reformation. And Sarah Kent-Hughes finds her long-disappeared mother and ministers to a dying soldier.
The manuscript sits with the publisher. A fifth novel, it’s the last of a series. The story arc that began with listening to an airplane music program in 2002 is coming to an end some 18 years later. You’ve lived with the characters for almost two decades. Sometimes it feels like you know the …
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The four, soon to be five, novels in the Dancing Priest series are set in the near future, at least far enough away from the actual present to avoid any notion that the characters are based on real people. But they’re essentially contemporary fiction, falling into the space between general …
Years ago, more than 40 to be precise, I was reading The Habit of Being, the collection of selected letters by Flannery O’Connor that had been recently published. Checking now, I see that my copy was from the third printing. And the book in various forms is still available on …
The news is rather bittersweet. The sweet news: The fifth novel in the Dancing Priest series is in editorial production. Tentatively entitled Dancing Prince, it’s the story of the youngest child of Michael and Sarah Kent-Hughes. The story covers almost two decades, from the time Thomas …
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The road ahead was not a literal road. But it felt like one. A very long one. My organization had just done what organizations are famous for doing: internal politics. A spectacularly successful initiative had been rewarded by the wrong person getting a promotion, someone not even involved in the …
An award-winning speechwriter and communications professional, Glynn Young is the author of three novels and the non-fiction book Poetry at Work.
