Your host, John Adcox
"Arise and drink your bliss, for all that lives is holy.”
— William Blake
"As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man I have chalked up many a mile.
I've read dozens of books about heroes and crooks...
And I've learned much from both of their styles."
— Jimmy Buffett
Storytellers make us remember what mankind would have been like,
had not fear and the failing will and the laws of nature tripped up its heels."
— William Butler Yeats
Biography
John Adcox has been a cross-media communications and content strategist, producer, user experience designer, and writer for more than twenty years. Presently, he is the CEO of the story incubator, book publisher, and movie studio of the future: Gramarye Media, Inc.Over the course of his career in advertising, marketing, and new media John Adcox has held a number of titles including Executive Producer, Vice President of Digital Media, Creative Director, Vice President of Marketing and Creative Services, and even CEO.
A few of his clients have included AT&T, Mercedes-AMG, Holiday Inn, Coca-Cola, UPS, SCANA, AutoTrader.com, Time Warner, Disney, Delta Airlines, 3M, Ford, and many more.
In addition, he has hosted a radio show, acted professionally (although not since age 15), designed and written scripts for computer games, written a play for a professional theatre company, taught university astronomy, and written reviews and articles on topics including mythology, psychology, technology, religion, marketing strategy, and fantasy.
John has published three novels Raven Wakes the World: A Winter Tale of Ancient Mystery, Christmas Past: A Ghostly Winter Tale, and The Star in the East: A Winter Tale of Ancient Mystery. Blackthorne Faire is coming in September, 2023 and The Widening Gyre is coming in 2025. Please send a note if you’d like to be notified or follow John on Twitter.
His many, many interests include books and literature (he is insufferably proud of his library), religion and philosophy, mythology, the Arthurian legends, travel, baseball, science fiction and fantasy, marketing communications, Celtic music and lore, new media, theatre, and politics, not to mention astronomy and cosmological physics, as well as the lesser sciences.
John was knighted by the late King Richard Booth of the nation/village of Hay-on-Wye (the famous book town on the border between England and Wales) and was ordained a minister on the Internet (he recently performed his first wedding). So he is properly the Right Reverend Sir John. He is very happily married to the fabulous Carol Bales (Lady Bales of Hay). The couple makes their home in Atlanta.
John is a committed and lifelong member of the United Methodist Church. He was the Lay Leader Inman Park United Methodist Church, and is now a member of Neighborhood Church Atlanta, a progressive, challenging, intellectually-engaging, warm, tightly-knit, and activist congregation that encourages connection, questions, and exploration.
For more information, here are the Top Ten Trivial Facts About John Adcox.
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"Reexamine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, Dismiss whatever insults your own soul, And your very flesh shall be a great poem And have the richest fluency not only in its words But in the silent lines of its lips and face and Between the lashes of your eyes and In every motion and joint of your body."
— Walt Whitman
— Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
