The Novels
After closing the door on his syndicated humor column in September 2007, Gordon Kirkland turned his attention to writing full-length novels.
His first novel, The Most Joyous Season, follows a family through a disastrous Christmas season in the early Sixties. One event after another befalls the family, ranging from a father's unemployment, a mistaken arrest, and a blizzard that will not stop, through to an explosive destruction of the Christmas turkey in the oven. The story is fictional, however many of the disasters did happen in the author's childhood home in what he describes as 'the family that put the f-u-n in dysfunctional!" He describes the story as the meeting between A Christmas Story and War of the Roses.
Gordon's second novel came about after Canada's BookTelevision selected him for the cast of their 3-Day Novel television event in 2007. Twelve writers were locked in a large Edmonton bookstore, each with the task of completing a novel in 72 hours, amid the distractions of working in a busy bookstore, and the numerous interruptions by the television crew. Gordon wrote Thou Shalt Kill, a mystery filled with dark comedy reminiscent of a cross between Fargo and Seven.
Gordon is represented by Kelly Skillen of PMA Literary and Film Agency to bring both these novels to publication and to move them forward to films.
Gordon Kirkland received Canada's Stephen Leacock Award of Merit for Humour for Justice Is Blind - And Her Dog Just Peed In My Cornflakes in 2000, for Never Stand Behind A Loaded Horse in 2005, and for When My Mind Wanders It Brings Back Souvenirs in 2006. This site makes extensive use of pdf files, which require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have this software, click here to download it. ©1994-2008 Gordon Kirkland. No part of this webpage may be copied without the written permission of the copyright holder .
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