Hello reader my name is
Bob Gordon. My professional name is
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.
My upcoming soon to be released novel is
an epic terrorism thriller Merlin's Disguises. |
