Historical Novel Society Conference: Registration

AUTHOR GUEST OF HONOR

JACK WHYTE is the author of the best-selling, five-novel series A Dream Of Eagles (US title: The Camulod Chronicles), published in
Canada by Penguin/Viking. Uther, an 800-page parallel, companion
novel to the series, was released in hardcover in November 2000 and
sold out the entire first print run of 18,000 copies within five weeks
of its release date. Whyte is currently involved in writing a two-novel miniseries, The Golden Eagle, as a sequel to the Dream of Eagles
novels. The first of the two novels, Clothar, was released in
December, 2003, and promptly went on to Top Ten Best Seller lists
across Canada.

The original series, set in 5th-century Britain, ranges from the end
of the 400-year military occupation of the country by the Romans
in 401 AD, to the completion of the Anglo-Saxon Conquest circa
550 AD. The individual novels examine the laying down of the
individual root elements that would develop, during the next
thousand years, to become the Arthurian legend. The titles,
sequentially, are The Skystone, The Singing Sword, The Eagles’
Brood, The Saxon Shore, and The Sorcerer, which was published
in two volumes: The Fort At River’s Bend and Metamorphosis.
The series has won wide readership for Whyte in Canada and
throughout the former British Commonwealth, and is now being
published, to critical acclaim, by Forge/Tor Books in the USA.

   Estimating that he has one novel remaining to complete his Arthurian cycle of novels, Whyte has been
   researching his next project for the past four years and has recently signed a contract with Viking/Penguin
   Canada for the Canadian rights to a trilogy of novels, to be entitled Knights of the Black and White, that
   will deal with the rise and fall of the mediaeval Knights Templar. The first of these books is scheduled for
   release in the Fall of 2005.

   Jack Whyte was born in Johnstone, in the Scottish county of Renfrewshire, and brought up in Lanarkshire,
Scotland, in the Motherwell and Wishaw area. He emigrated from Britain to Canada in 1967, originally as a teacher
   of High School English. Since then, apart from spending more than ten years of nights as a professional
   musician/entertainer, he has worked in the daylight world as a business and advertising copywriter and a
   consultant in Corporate Communications. By 1995, with the sale of his books into the USA, Whyte was finally
   able to dedicate himself to being a full-time novelist. Throughout all of the time prior to that, he had supported his
   writing career through his work as a singer, actor, poet and public speaker.

   Since 1996 Whyte has lived in Kelowna, British Columbia, with his wife Beverley, and continues to write his novels.
   He has a son, a daughter and four grandchildren, all living in Edmonton, Alberta, and three stepchildren living in
   Vancouver, BC. He considers himself to be a Scot by birth, a Canadian by conviction and an immigrant by sheer
   good fortune.