Oct 8 2012
The old question has come up again, this time via FaceBook, from Penny Cunningham who, I have to presume from her letter, lives in the U.K. I’ve answered it before, many times, but time moves on and new readers continue, understandably, to be confused by the names of the different editions of the various […]
Oct 1 2012
That saying came up again in a conversation earlier tonight and, as usual, I restrained the instinct to speak up and throw in my two cents’ worth, but it still won’t leave me alone and so I have to talk it out… I’m pretty sure I’ve told the story in here before, but it’s a […]
Sep 30 2012
I found the attached photographs recently while tidying up some old artwork files, and it occurred to me that some of you might be interested in seeing them, purely for the sake of curiosity. They date from about 2009, around the time when the Marketing folks at Penguin Canada first realized that my domestic Canadian […]
Feb 11 2012
Just received an email from a good friend congratulating me on the new website and telling me he’s never seen anything that comes close to it in his Web travels. He was particularly impressed by the novelty and power of the introductory videos to the various books and the “Fireside Chat” intimacy they captured, but […]
Jan 27 2012
The more things change, the less anything changes… That’s an old saying that has been around for decades, but in recent times the Publishing industry has blown it out of the water… Almost nothing in today’s publishing industry is remotely comparable to what was known and normal fifteen years ago. The arrival of the Electronic […]
Nov 11 2011
I found this piece the other day by accident… I wrote it eight years ago, on November 11, 2003, Remembrance Day, and it's still valid. I’ve always been quite heavily involved, one way or another, in Remembrance Day observances. My father was blinded on D-Day, June 6, 1944, and I grew up with first-hand awareness […]
Nov 3 2011
This is something I just want to get off my chest, because it’s been bugging me for years that I’ve never been able to really define it. And it’s all about books I love to read. I’m putting it up on my site as a Blog entry (which means it will have a “posted” date) […]
Sep 16 2011
Been a long time since I’ve been in here blogging, I know, but I’ve been waiting for several things to happen, all of them resulting in a completely new, upgraded and radically different interface… Trouble is, like everything new, upgraded and radically different, it’s taking more time than we anticipated. But we’re getting there and […]
Jan 4 2011
Apparently my musings on the connection between William Wallace in "The Forest Laird" and the possibility that he might have served as an archetype for the legendary Robin Hood have set the cat loose among some highly flustered pigeons. It's certainly attracting attention in the UK, despite the fact that the novel has not yet […]
Oct 9 2012
E-Books and Audio Books
An update here, for people interested in knowing What's What with the new e-Media and the status of the various editions… Several American subscribers to this website have been wondering what happened to the E-book version of THE EAGLE, which is missing from the available lineup on Amazon et al… Turns out to […]