Jack’s Blog

This year, 2010, marks the 75th Anniversary of my main publisher, Penguin Books, Canada, or as they are legally known, Penguin Group Canada Inc. To celebrate the anniversary the Penguins are doing a couple of really neat things, one of which is inviting their top-selling authors to take part in a poster campaign in which…

This is just a brief snippet, an afterthought prompted by a memo I just received about an upcoming event in Toronto within the next few months… I've been collaborating for the past few years with a couple of fellows on the writing of a Musical. Their names are Tory Doctor, who is the Librettist (he's…

I have already written this blog entry today–or a reasonable facsimile of it–and then lost it somehow, before I could upload it. I don't know what I did, but I know I was not happy when whatever happened to it happened… I began, I remember, by observing that it's pretty lonely in here at the…

I've never really been sure of the lyrics of that line, or the actual title of the song, although I know it's the official march tune of the US Air Force. But whether the blue yonder we're dealing with here is wide or wild, or both, here we go, into it, with a brand-new format…

Everything seems to be about Time nowadays. I never had any intention of staying away from my own website, but that’s what I ended up doing, simply because I managed to leave myself without sufficient time to do everything I wanted to do. I had just enough time to do what I needed to do,…

Today is the Official Release Date in Canada for Knights of the Black and White, but driving past my favourite local bookstore yesterday I saw an entire window display, a day early! That’s not a complaint, because I stopped and went inside and ended up signing about twenty copies, so we’re off to a flying…

Knights of the Black and White is scheduled to appear on bookshelves throughout Canada and the USA within the first two weeks of August, the official release dates being August 1st and August 8th respectively, and the publishers in both countries–Viking Penguin in Canada and Putnam Penguin in the U.S.–have offered a number of promotional…

It has reached that time when details of book tours and public appearances are beginning to come together, and as they do, I’ll be feeding them into the Calendar section of the site from now on.   In the meantime, however, in order to bring the Calendar Section to your attention (it has remained pretty…

I just received the first copy of Knights of the Black and White, the  first novel of the Knights Templar Trilogy, from Putnam Books in New York. It’s hot off the press and it won’t be generally available until the official release date of August 8th, but I have it here and I have to…

I suppose the best thing about blogging is that it’s something you can do at your own pace, and the resulting blog entries are indicative of the amount of time you have to dedicate to the exercise… It has been a long time since I have shown my face and/or my thoughts in this forum,…