Jack’s Blog

I’ve learned to be cautious about using phrases like “few years ago”, because time goes slipping by so quickly nowadays that what I recall as a recent event too often turns out to be from the distant, shrinking-in-the-rearview-mirror past. I wanted to write about something I remember as happening about five years ago, but now…

America, and by extension, Canada, is a nation  of car lovers. To see the proof of that, all you have to do is sit by your TV and count the number of automotive commercials on television. Irrespective of where you might be on any given night in North America, you will be stunned, once you…

I wrote a post some time ago about what had happened to “The Skystone” because several readers had written to me saying they couldn’t find copies to buy, and some people had even heard that the book was out of print. That last part galvanized me, I admit, because if the book had gone out…

I received a very nice tribute a few days ago from a fellow called Conor Cobban, who wrote to me via hotmail.com to tell me he’s a registered site member and that he recently stumbled, almost by accident, upon the subsection of this site that features the weekly columns I now write for my local…

I heard a report a couple of weeks ago, while I was attending the annual Surrey Writers Conference, that my first novel, The Skystone, had gone out of print. Several people in attendance there had been trying to buy the book from the Chapters/Indigo bookstore on site and had apparently been told that it was…

Some time ago, before we launched into these recent website renovations, I wrote in here about the British version of The Guardians Trilogy and how, yet again, a publisher had changed the title of a series. At that time, two of the novels had been published in Britain, with The Forest Laird renamed to REBEL…

Every now and then, and usually when we least expect to, we’ll stumble across something, somewhere, that reminds us of events about which we have totally forgotten. It happened to me, today, when I was scrolling through some old, archived files. I found an untitled Scrivener folder from 2010 that shouldn’t have been where it was,…

It seems to have taken an unconscionably long time to get this thing going, but it’s finally done and I received confirmation today, from my publishers at penguinrandomhouse.ca, that my original Canadian series, A Dream Of Eagles, which is published in the USA as The Camelot Chronicles and in the UK as Legends of Camelot, is…

A year ago on this day, I had been home from hospital for ten days and I was regally installed in a Laz-E-Boy recliner in my living room, where I would remain for at least the next complete month before I dared to venture beyond my primary comfort zone… Fundamantally, I didn't know next to…