Jack’s Blog

Hi, everyone: It’s been a while, it seems, since I was here, but it’s not because I didn’t want to be here… Life has been interesting, for those of you who know the story of the ancient Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times…" I did manage to send an outline of my upcoming…

The diatribe that follows here is one that we will keep as a separate feature page within the website, accessible to everyone, because it deals with what is possibly the most infuriating, incessantly-repeated question I encounter . . . the one dealing with the correct sequence of the titles of my books. I’ve read and…

Monday, September 19th   Just received word this morning, from Penguin Books Canada, that "The Eagle" went to the Printers earlier today, on schedule, so that means everything is in place and proceeding smoothly and the release Date of November 19th is confirmed. I also received word today that three sets of galleys (Advanced Reading…

It's Sunday, September 18th, and it's a glorious day in the early fall here in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. There's an enormous, majestic red-tailed hawk patrolling his property right outside my window, just sailing along in widening loops from east to west, following the edge of the canyon, about a hundred yards away,…

Sunday again, and once more I’m wondering where the week went… I can’t believe it’s been a week since I wrote my last Blog entry, but it’s true, and despite the blur of passing time, a lot has happened in the interim… Let’s see if I can itemize some of the things that have impinged…

Okay, so there’s a blog section on the site now, and nothing in it to this point, which tells me that I ought to be thinking about something to say, to kick this page off. I have no idea what I’m going to write in here, but my understanding is that blogging is like keeping…

…and how many of those are Canadian, as opposed to American? That’s one of the questions I am asked most frequently, and it is one that I sometimes despair of answering intelligibly. So let me tackle it in slices: To this point, in September, 2011, I have published a total of thirteen novels, but I…