Joyce Sandilands

Writer, Editor, and Small Business Owner in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Joyce Sandilands

Writer, Editor, and Small Business Owner in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

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My husband, J Robert Whittle is a best-selling and award winning author, I am an award-winning editor/publisher of his books. I am also co-author of his singles titles. Robert is a Yorkshireman who came to Canada via Australia and Canada's North in 1970. He and Joyce met in Victoria BC. He had an amazing life over the first 60 years, but one thing was missing ... the discovery of his writing talent at the age of 62. Previous to that discovery, Robert's talents were already numerous and diverse ... one helped keep him alive during his dangerous job as a British Mining Engineer. He is the eldest son of 10 children and a grandfather and great-grandfather, so it's not surprising that this man loves children and so children of history became the willing subjects of his first books (Lizzie and Victoria series). After I published his first book in 1998, compliments persuaded him to write faster. Happily, he soon became prolific and readers continue today to ask for more even though he is 83 years old! When we slowed to take a breather (2008), we found we had published 10 adventure novels, 2 children's books and 4 audio books in only ten years! Ebooks came shortly after. We're an old-fashioned couple who discovered we could work together and when we turned to writing/producing historically correct, family-friendly books, people loved them. With no plans to retire, as busy seniors we've been a writer team for 20 years now and although life tries to slow us down, we are fighting retirement. We sell our books at the Bastion Square Summer Market and numerous Vancouver Island Christmas Shows.

Our collection of 11th novels now includes two mysteries, the most recent being "Silent Destiny" set in modern Scotland with an unexpected twist on the William Wallace story! Our books are only available directly though us, our website jrobertwhittle.com, as POD on Amazon, and as eBooks. You'll find more Bio bits on our website.

  • Work
    • Whitlands Publishing
  • Education
    • Robert - Leeds Uni, Yorkshire, UK
    • Joyce-Victoria High, Victoria BC