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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Publisher, author, editor |
| Location | Chester, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Geoff lives in Chester, UK. A former teacher Geoff has had books published on microclimates. Geoff contributes humorous travel accounts to Cycling World. His love of teaching and the environment is reflected in his Batchelor of Education degree and Master of Science for climatology, research for which he was awarded a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society. His physicist wife is invaluable for her love but also for aspects of Geoff’s science fiction. They have two grown up children, whose intelligence and warmth go beyond Geoff’s expectations. Besides his humour novel, Escaping Reality, he won a Prix d’Argent in 2007 and the Prix d’Or in 2009 for mystery thriller, Hot Air, to be published by a Dutch Arts Academy in 2009, and a Science Fiction block buster, Left Luggage is in the hands of an agent. Geoff’s Exit, Pursued by a Bee science fiction mystery came out in 2008. Geoff is a co-editor for Adventure Books of Seattle, working mainly on Escape Velocity a print and ezine magazine of science fact and fiction. He has been a freelance editor of novels and short stories for several years. Geoff is the 2009 short-fiction judge for the Whittaker Prize. |
| Interests | Cycling, hiking, climate, reading scifi and literary novels, family. |
| Favorite Movies | Monsieur Hugo Goes on Holiday. Space Odyssey 2001, Diva |
| Favorite Music | Wagner, Richard Strauss, Puccini |
| Favorite Books | Tibor Fischer, Julian Barnes, AL Kennedy, Margaret Atwood |
You're wearing a sweater that stretches down to your feet. What color belt do you put on?
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