Geoffrey Wells is the author of three suspense novels on freedom, also available as The Trilogy for Freedom. His latest novel, Never Less is a middle grade mystery, and is Book One of the Pablo and Mindy Series. He is currently working on the second book in the series, which takes place ten years later and is thus a new adult novel.  

Geoffrey was born in the mining town of Welkom, South Africa. He spent a childhood moving from one mine to another with his mother and mining consultant father who had a passion for literature and read from the classics to Geoffrey and his three sisters. Geoffrey’s mother was the only daughter among seven brothers and was a born storyteller.

Geoffrey’s diverse experience is built on a curiosity for life stemming from family travels, playing drums in a garage band, running cross-country races, climbing Kilimanjaro, and holding jobs as a paper route boy, as an art director for ad agencies, as a gofer in Hollywood (as well as a location scout and assistant to a film director). Between jobs in the movies, he worked as a cashier in a diner, as a room service waiter and also as a waiter at a hamburger joint. These experiences inform everything he does—which is partly why he does anything—and motivated him to begin writing small pieces of fiction and very bad poetry, never believing he would finish and publish a novel.

His middle grade mystery, Never Less, (2022), is a thriller for young readers twelve and up. It will vicariously take older middle-grade readers and their parents through the fear of an existential threat of fentanyl in communities everywhere. Never Less soars in its power to remind readers that loyalty and an unwavering bond of a true friend can overcome even the most difficult grown-up problems.

In his cautionary eco-thriller, The Drowning Bay (2021), based on a water crisis and climate change, Wells looks at what the responsibility of freedom means and how it might lead to finding a belonging in a dying ecosystem.

Inspired by his ascent of Kilimanjaro in 2003 and disgusted by the devastation of elephants, he published, Atone for the Ivory Cloud in 2016.

His career as art director in advertising lured him to commercials, and after immigrating to the U.S. in 1980, he studied producing at the American Film Institute. He paid the rent working the graveyard room service shift at a Beverly Hills hotel, where he served famous and infamous actors and rock stars, including Richard Burton, The Rolling Stones, and others.

The Internet and an ambidextrous brain led him to information technology, where he rose to Vice President and Chief Information Officer for two US-based broadcasters.

A Fado for the River (2011), is based on his experience in Mozambique one year before the Portuguese revolution spilled into the colony. Wells explores the quest for personal freedom, which grew out of a nation struggling for its liberation.

Concurrent with his corporate life, he wrote and produced an award-winning animated film, The Shadow of Doubt, directed by his wife, Cynthia Wells, an animator, and painter. The film showed in 27 film festivals and won 5 awards.

He lives on the North Fork of Long Island where, in 2013 he ran for Trustee, a political appointment charged with managing coastal areas and wetlands—losing by a small margin. With his wife he farmed oysters with Cornell Cooperative Extension, and for five seasons he videotaped and produced a lecture series with farmers and chefs, called Long Island Grown for the Peconic Land Trust.

In 2015 he edited, designed, and published the children’s book, Moonglow written by Peggy Dickerson and illustrated by Cynthia Wells.

He lives on the North Fork of Long Island where he swims the open water of Peconic Bay with his wife and their dog, Luciano.