About Two Freedoms, smarts, and home.
Everyone longs for freedom, but which one?
A 5 star review for Atone!
It’s rare to find a novelist who can combine so many moving parts and blend them into a novel that will have you holding your breath and guessing to the last page. Wells has pulled it off!
The climate refugees are coming
Staying under 2 degrees centigrade is the goal, but shouldn’t it be making sure millions of people are not displaced?
CAUGHT IN THE GRID
Pablo and Mindy must decide if they are constructive disruptors or are they just loose molecules, radical and free?
IRONBOUND ELECTRONS
Unless the grid evolves to a state of fairness and cooperation, it will fail us.
INTUITION
What is that frequent intuition telling you? From The Geoffrey Letter: December 15, 2024 As we come to the end the year, I tend to look back and try to assess my most important personal revelations. I’m sure I am not the only one who does this. And no, I’m not going to bore you […]
Do revolutions work?
My historical thriller, A Fado for the River, a story of political intrigue and moral ambiguity has a subtext that reveals the paradox of revolution.
A SCHOOL VISIT
Build your inner home. The power of authenticity… It was raining as our Uber drove to the school. The windows were streaked with droplets furrowing down, racing the rivers of condensation inside. I was excited to have been invited by New York Edge to read Never Less at a middle school in Brooklyn, NY. In […]
It’s all about you
It’s all about curious you. Excerpted from The Geoffrey Letter: October 23, 2023 NEVER IS NOT FOREVER WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN TO PABLO AND MINDY WHEN THEY REACH THE AGE OF TWENTY-TWO? Why, you might ask, do I pass over the YA (young adult) years in between? The answer is twofold: One, is that I […]
SACRED HOPE AND STARDUST
Never Less shows how sacred hope fronts a single-minded fever of purpose.
THE UNTHINKABLE
Mindy and Pablo are empowered to think for themselves.
ARE THE BAYS STILL DROWNING?
“Now we must become the adaptation species.”
NEVER LESS ~ THE BOOK COVER
We all need a safety net, but need a true friendeven more… What does a child go throughwhen a parent is an opioid addict? I write thrillers to help readers with their own pain ~ Geoffrey Wells. WHY I WROTE THIS BOOK I wrote Never Less in the first person entirely from the point of […]
TOGETHER, DESPITE OUR DIFFERENCES
“YOU HAVE FREEDOMWHEN YOU’RE EASY IN YOUR HARNESS.”~Robert Frost Photo by Danny Gallegos on Unsplash TOGETHER,DESPITE OUR DIFFERENCES Communities are like fish; yours might be a grouper, mine a porgy, but they’re all fish. If I have learned nothing else in the past two years, it is that, regardless of how much I deny it, […]
AS FREEDOM RINGS, HEAR ITS ECHO
AS FREEDOM RINGSHEAR ITS ECHO On the 4th of July, America celebrates Independence Day. Inextricably bound to our freedom AN ECHO IGNORED We’ll hear the clichéd phase, “let freedom ring”, and perhaps forget that our nation’s “independence” meant freedom from Britain. But this is not a history lesson. It is a reminder that independence does […]
EARTH DAY DID NOT HELP
THE CRY OF THE OSPREY IS TO WAKE US UP Never, since its start in 1970, has Earth Day been more urgent. Now it’s past… Earth Days have not helped the planet heal, because this “holiday” is for us, for humankind–an oxymoron if ever there was one. The uncomfortable truth is that the planet will […]
IS THIS THE YEAR WE DEFLECT OR INFLECT?
OUR SPECIES MUST STOP DEFLECTING ITS HUMANITY. The human social climate must inflect. With the new spring comes the question: Can the human race finally aspire to belonging in its own ecosystem? As I look forward to getting back to a normal life I realize that I don’t think I can. We’ve moved on. Those […]
CLIMATE: PART II
DEAREST EARTH, YOU’VE BEEN RIGHT ALL ALONG. Equilibrium of ecology and societycan be our gift to the future. CLIMATE: PART II RESPECT FOR DIVERSITYIS KEY TO THE SURVIVAL OF OUR SPECIES. JUST ASK NATURE. The foundation of modern ecology is based on what scientists call the trophic cascade, and is not what we loosely think […]
THE FREEDOM TRILOGY
Why I write about freedom. If you don’t already know this about my writing, I write about tough issues, the most difficult of which is freedom. With me, the devil is indeed in the details. I immigrated to the US in 1980 and belong to a generation of white South Africans who grew up disagreeing with […]
CLIMATE: PART ONE
Back in November, we said if we can just get over this bridge to where everyone is vaccinated, perhaps we can live normal lives. But, that lifestyle has gone forever; as are, tragically, the many lives gone with it. However, there will be a new normal, and in many ways it will be better. Here […]
Themes to Ponder: Family, Altruism and Rebellion
Pondering the themes in The Drowning Bay:Family, Altruism and Rebellion Ponder, or pay… My goal when I was writing The Drowning Bay was to tease out that “aha!” moment when the reader suddenly knows how the themes of the story informs its premise. I don’t want to waste anyone’s time. I want the reader to […]
