Author/essayist/blogger ROBERT J 'BOB' Gordon
Hello reader my name is Bob Gordon. My novels display my given name Robert J. Gordon. I first became published as a part-time reporter and columnist for the Ajax Advertiser during a few years of career building in the Toronto area. Career experiences over the ensuing years led in part to the characterization, plots, and action in my novels and short stories.
Working for Northern Ontario’s largest daily newspaper, I traveled the Michigan/Ontario shoreline communities of Lake Huron collecting background information for newspaper articles and stories appearing in an annual tourism publication and used as background scenes in my historical novel Disaster Legacy. While managing a medium sized hotel, plot characterization, action, and subplots formed that are described in my novel Vacation Inn.
A change of career and personal business pressures necessitated a multi-year writing hiatus ending when I was asked to write weekly information columns for a local community newspaper. Finding readers read the columns it was suggested I try my hand at life-experience articles. Within a few months, I was urged to submit some short stories to a book publisher for consideration. Cobalt publisher Doug Pollard of Highway Book Shop sent two of the stories to teacher Fred Manson compiling a couple of Northern Ontario anthologies at Northern College in Timmins. My short story entitled Collapse was published in Northern Ontario Anthology I followed by a radio play entitled Diamond Jubilee in Northern Ontario Anthology II. Shortly afterwards Highway Book Shop published my Mines and Blazing Pines collection of short stories.
For the next twenty years, I wrote and rewrote several novels while editor and publisher of my family’s community newspaper. Part of my responsibility was to act as reporter, feature writer, and columnist as the need arose. Over the years our family experienced camping and fishing in the wilderness timber limits on both sides of the Highway 144 Sudbury to Timmins corridor. Many of those experiences are described in my short story collection Where Rivers Flow North.
Becoming a friend and advocate for local First Nation people, the principle characters and much of the plot in my novel 'The Place' were influenced by aboriginal friends including ceremonial descriptions after an invitation from a local Chief and elder to observe a Council of Elders ceremony on a nearby First Nation Reserve.
Fighting forest fires, a canoe trip adventure in Ontario’s Killarney Wilderness Park, and participating in Sudbury's inter-union dispute in 1960 led to stories in Mines and Blazing Pines.
My historical novel Disaster Legacy recently published by Saga Books Calgary Alberta is available through www.amazon.ca
Vacation Inn published as an e-book and CD novel is available through this web site and www.googlebooks.com.
Another upcoming soon to be released e-novel of epic terrorism thrillers is Merlin's Disguises will be closely followed by my latest terrorist fighting adventure love story The Marauder Woman set in Afghanistan, Canada, the Middle east, Europe, Pakistan and India.
All my novels will soon be available on Amazon.ca in e-book format.
(Click on green page access buttons at the top of this page under the blue sky heading to access all website pages including my blog)
Working for Northern Ontario’s largest daily newspaper, I traveled the Michigan/Ontario shoreline communities of Lake Huron collecting background information for newspaper articles and stories appearing in an annual tourism publication and used as background scenes in my historical novel Disaster Legacy. While managing a medium sized hotel, plot characterization, action, and subplots formed that are described in my novel Vacation Inn.
A change of career and personal business pressures necessitated a multi-year writing hiatus ending when I was asked to write weekly information columns for a local community newspaper. Finding readers read the columns it was suggested I try my hand at life-experience articles. Within a few months, I was urged to submit some short stories to a book publisher for consideration. Cobalt publisher Doug Pollard of Highway Book Shop sent two of the stories to teacher Fred Manson compiling a couple of Northern Ontario anthologies at Northern College in Timmins. My short story entitled Collapse was published in Northern Ontario Anthology I followed by a radio play entitled Diamond Jubilee in Northern Ontario Anthology II. Shortly afterwards Highway Book Shop published my Mines and Blazing Pines collection of short stories.
For the next twenty years, I wrote and rewrote several novels while editor and publisher of my family’s community newspaper. Part of my responsibility was to act as reporter, feature writer, and columnist as the need arose. Over the years our family experienced camping and fishing in the wilderness timber limits on both sides of the Highway 144 Sudbury to Timmins corridor. Many of those experiences are described in my short story collection Where Rivers Flow North.
Becoming a friend and advocate for local First Nation people, the principle characters and much of the plot in my novel 'The Place' were influenced by aboriginal friends including ceremonial descriptions after an invitation from a local Chief and elder to observe a Council of Elders ceremony on a nearby First Nation Reserve.
Fighting forest fires, a canoe trip adventure in Ontario’s Killarney Wilderness Park, and participating in Sudbury's inter-union dispute in 1960 led to stories in Mines and Blazing Pines.
My historical novel Disaster Legacy recently published by Saga Books Calgary Alberta is available through www.amazon.ca
Vacation Inn published as an e-book and CD novel is available through this web site and www.googlebooks.com.
Another upcoming soon to be released e-novel of epic terrorism thrillers is Merlin's Disguises will be closely followed by my latest terrorist fighting adventure love story The Marauder Woman set in Afghanistan, Canada, the Middle east, Europe, Pakistan and India.
All my novels will soon be available on Amazon.ca in e-book format.
(Click on green page access buttons at the top of this page under the blue sky heading to access all website pages including my blog)
