Look and Listen

Biography

Geoff Nelder has a wife, two grown-up kids, and lives in rural England within an easy cycle ride of the Welsh mountains. Publications: Humorous thriller Escaping Reality in 2005 Award-winning science fiction mystery with hot-blooded heroine, Exit, Pursued by a Bee in 2008 Another thriller, Hot Air, was published in 2010 after receiving an Award d’Or from an Arts Academy in the Netherlands. A science fiction trilogy, ARIA with an original premise is to be published in 2012 by LL-Publications. An urban and historical magic realism fantasy, Xaghra’s Revenge, is in the hands of the Rebecca Pratt Literary Agency. Having had around 50 short stories published, Geoff was chosen to be the short fiction judge for the Whittaker Prize, 2009. Geoff is an editor at Adventure Books of Seattle, and is a freelance editor for other writers. Geoff’s website: geoffnelder.com

Inspiration

My mother joined me (so to speak) to the Children's Science Fiction Book Club when I was four and that kicked me into flights of imagination. In his spare time my dad illustrated science fiction magazines, but then I thought all dads did that. More recently I admire the literary writing styles of Julian Barnes along the humour of Tibor Fischer and marry those with my fantasies and speculative fiction stories.