News about my writing.
Saturday I’ll be at this book festival in Dallas at the Material Media booth, signing books and networking and whatever else one does at things like this. I want to be honest about something. I don’t really want to do this. But I am trying to be more assertive about my writing and be available…
I could tell you the story of how I found Carl in New Orleans, but it wouldn’t do you any good. Carl moves his shop whenever the mood strikes him. During a stretch of time in 2008 he operated out of the back of a van. If you need Carl, you’ll have to find him…
Foy is now available in several e-book formats. Barnes and Noble and Google Play versions coming soon. Amazon Kindle Kobo ebook apps for most phone platforms iBooks
I thank Mark Isaiah David for reviewing Foy at 2nd Opinion. Back in 2002, a Baptist preacher from Texas launched a blog about faith and life and humorously titled it Real Live Preacher. RLP became an internet sensation, regularly receiving hundreds of thousands of hits, continuously ranking in the top ten most-popular blogs hosted by…
After Real Live Preacher died, I started a blog called Tertium Squid. Most of the writing there reflected my wanderings – still ongoing – through the wilderness on the outskirts of the Church. I wrote there about once a month or so for a number of years. But I think that blog has run its…
TO BE RELEASED MARCH 2017 New Novel by Gordon Atkinson Foy: On the Road to Lost, to be released March 1 from Material Media. Written as a series of connected stories, Foy: A Novel by Gordon Atkinson is where we meet Baptist minister Foy Davis. From boyhood adventures in Fort Davis and Houston, Texas, to his…
The Christian Century will published one of my works of surreal fiction. These are first person fictional stories that take an odd twist at some point, whereupon the reader realizes that we’re not in Kansas anymore. A few years back I wrote a lot of things for the Century. After I left the ministry, I…