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Geoffrey Wells
Exotic stories for curious minds and forgotten hearts
The latest release by Geoffrey Wells is the middle grade novel, Never Less (Book One of the Pablo and Mindy Series). It is a thriller for young readers twelve and up that will help them deal with the opioid crisis in an adventurous, and relatable way, which will give them agency over even the toughest grown-up problems.
Geoffrey Wells is the author of three novels forming the series titled, The Trilogy for Freedom.
In his eco-thriller, The Drowning Bay, (2021), he looks at the responsibility of freedom and its demands on saving an ecosystem.
In Atone for the Ivory Cloud, (2016), Wells writes about the ivory trade.
In A Fado for the River, (2011), Wells explores the quest for personal freedom, which grew out of Mozambique’s struggle for its liberation.
Wells started writing fiction after a career in IT management at two major US TV broadcasting companies. He also wrote and produced an award-winning animated film, The Shadow of Doubt, directed by his wife, Cynthia Wells. The film showed in 27 film festivals and won 5 awards. In 2015 he published the award-winning children’s book, Moonglow, written by Peggy Dickerson and illustrated by Cynthia Wells.
He lives on Long Island where he participates in triathlons and swims the open water with his wife and their dog, Luciano.
Andrea Rhude
Sky gods have morphed into “chem trails”…
A fantasy/horror/sci-fi writer at heart, Andrea has been writing weird, and apparently unsettling stories for many years. She has always been interested in how folklore, myths, and fairy stories have influenced society and how society, in turn, creates new and variant stories as it continues to evolve. Fairies turn into aliens, and the paths best not to tread have moved on-line, where new wolves and trolls stalk the unwary. Sky gods have morphed into “chem trails” and Fairy-godmothers wear lab coats. To put it in simpler words, we are the mythology of our great great grandchildren.
She joined the North Fork Writers group back in 2013 and was honored to have three of those stories in “Seven Voices Volume two”. She has lived on the North Fork for her entire life, with a short time in Brooklyn while she attended Pratt Institute (1998, Illustration). Andrea worked in the construction/interior design field for twenty years doing everything from framing and sheet rocking to mural painting and color consults. Currently she is spending her time sharpening her painting skills, making hand made lace, and trying to find just the right word to convey the meaning in that pesky sentence.
Dave Porteous
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Home is Long Island’s East End for more than 20 years, now as an Australia-USA Dual Citizen. As North Fork Writers Group’s longest serving member, I’m Dave to a family of friends whose critiques improve my writing. I’ve thought of myself as ‘a writer’ since my teens, when I developed a poetry style that I call ‘Mind Shots’, jotted thoughts on transitory emotional reactions, mine, and others. Some were published in esoteric anthologies, but since joining our NoFo Group, my focus has turned to fiction in novels and stories. That has allowed me to create disparate ‘voices’ for the various genres in which I write.
Before that, I wrote mostly for Marketing Management & Advertising work in both countries. I created multi-media advertising & Public Relations campaigns, Public Service Announcements, and Variety Club Charity Events publicity. My script for a TV Documentary, ‘Birdsville To The Alice’, earned acceptance into the Australian Writers Guild as Full Member # 326… a proud achievement.
My Short Stories appear in both volumes of ‘Seven Voices’, North Fork Writers’ anthologiespublished byThe New Atlantian Library. That company also published my book, ‘Strangers In My Mind’, which the Publisher praised for divers narrative styles and memorable characters’ distinctive dialogue that brings individuals to life. I’m now preparing ‘Mister Sun’, Historical Fiction aboutvicious anti-Chinese riots on Australia’s Lambing Flat goldfields in 1860/61 for publication.
I hope that, if you read some of the work I offer, your mind is enjoyably engaged.
Susan Rosenstreich
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My first book appeared around my third birthday. It was a narrative masterpiece. Every bold stroke of my sister’s crayons bore the weight of injustices visited upon me by my bossy older siblings, of transports of the soul brought on by ice cream and of my grandfather’s devastating disapproval of my fractured English. Bound with a bit of red yarn laced through the ragged holes my older sister had punched out of the pages, the book even had a cover that I decorated with a title: three horizontal stripes of black crayon. No one could read the thing. How can you “read” a bunch of scribbles, squares and circles? But everyone understood that I had a story to tell.
Decades later, my writing life is a 24/7 job, taking in a world that has always been, for me at least, total pandemonium. In successive careers as a teacher of English as Another Language, as a technical translator, as professor of Romance languages, and now as the editor of a journal of research on the Mediterranean region, I still do what a three year-old does with crayons. I take in the sights, the sounds, the smells, the touch of this world to bring forth their stories. In my innocent youth, I imagined that there was one great story at the end of all stories, that all the words of the world culminate in one final Great Word. As an adult guilty of such arrogance, I now accept the fate of the writer, which is to hunt for the one word that tells one story of one moment in the life of a very large, very chaotic, very magnificent world. You don’t get much sleep, but it’s not a bad gig at all.
Joyce deCordova
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Businesswoman, counselor and social worker with master’s degrees in education and social work have been her careers, but Joyce’s passion has always been storytelling.
A member of the North Fork Writers Group, her stories have been published by the New Atlantian Library, in Seven Voices, Volumes One and Two.
A lover of the short story genre and a firm believer that less is better, she has been fortunate to be part of the North Fork Writers Group where camaraderie, intelligent and constructive feedback have played an invaluable role not only in her writing but in her life.
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