Jun 6 2010
I passed another major milestone this weekend and, as milestones tend to do, it fell behind me in silence, unremarked by anyone except me and my publisher’s editorial staff… For an entire year, now, I have been working daily on writing, shaping and crafting another new novel, this one called “The Forest Laird”, and my […]
Jun 1 2010
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 […]
May 23 2010
I remember meeting Bob Dylan in a folk club at Brighton in the south of England in 1964, just when that song was the most talked-about song in the under 25-years-old English speaking world. I got to spend time quite a bit of time with him on that occasion because I operated and owned the […]
May 20 2010
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 […]
May 19 2010
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 […]
May 17 2010
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 […]
Apr 5 2008
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, […]
Aug 1 2006
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 […]
Jul 11 2006
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 […]
Jun 9 2010
Passing Thoughts…
Sitting in the restaurant at my golf club this morning, having a late breakfast, I overheard a guy at another table telling a really bad joke, and at the end of it one of his buds, pretending to be shocked, said very loudly, “We are Not amused!” Made me think of just how easily we can […]