Aug 31 2010
Calgary, Alberta
Chapters, Shawnessy
Jack Whyte
About Jack Whyte
Jack Whyte has written three highly successful series of Historical adventures: "The Camulod Chronicles", set in 5th-Century post-Roman Britain, "The Knights Templar Trilogy", set in 12th- 13th- and 14th-Century France, and the current "Guardians" series, (re-titled as "The Bravehearts Chronicle" in Britain), which deals with 14th-Century Scotland during the Wars of Independence and features the Scots heroes of those wars: William Wallace, Robert the Bruce and Sir James the Black Douglas. A million-plus bestselling author in Canada, Whyte's works are widely translated into more than a dozen languages and have won him a large and faithful following wherever they appear. He lives in British Columbia, Canada, and his official "home" on the 'Web is www.jackwhyte.com.
Posts by Jack Whyte:
Aug 25 2010
Pender Island, British Columbia
4:00 pm–5:00 pm: Reading and Signing, Talisman Books and Gallery, the Driftwood Mall, 4506 Bedwell Harbour Road.
Aug 24 2010
Summertime, and the Reading Is Easy
Seems like a long time since I last entered anything here, but it's only been a week. I've noticed, though, that weeks pass very quickly, nowadays, so much so that I sometimes find myself wondering where all the Mondays through Thursdays went, because all that seems to be left is Fridays… The last time I […]
Aug 7 2010
This Writing Life
I’m heading off to BC’s Sunshine Coast next weekend (August 12-15) to attend the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts, in Sechelt, and to me that means High Summer and the opening of the annual LitFest and Conference season. I realized that while sitting at my computer early this morning, going through old files, […]
Aug 4 2010
Writing Hath Its Perks…
One of the best parts of being a writer, as far as I’m concerned, is that sometimes you get sneak previews of books that really excite you, and this is the time of year when people send me ARCs (Advance Readers’ Copies) in the mail, hoping that I’ll read them and enjoy them and then […]
Jul 14 2010
The Home Connection…
I was born within a few minutes’ walk of the Wallace Monument in the village of Elderslie, in Renfrewshire, Scotland, and even as a small child I knew the story of Scotland’s greatest Champion. All Scots kids did, of course, but living as close to the Monument as I did, I always had a special awareness […]
Jun 21 2010
Epilogues and epithets…
Courtesy of Kristina Taukkanen Having recently finished my new novel, “The Forest Laird, A Tale of William Wallace“, I’ve been luxuriating in the fact that it’s done, but I recalled, in a conversation with a friend a few nights ago, that I did not come easily to writing about Wallace originally, because the man […]
Aug 31 2010
Red Deer, Alberta
Chapters, Red Deer