GEOFF COLLINS was born and raised in England, but managed to escape in his early twenties. After ten years of living in a number of African countries while working as an aircraft maintenance mechan...view moreGEOFF COLLINS was born and raised in England, but managed to escape in his early twenties. After ten years of living in a number of African countries while working as an aircraft maintenance mechanic, he returned to the UK where he spent the next couple of years teaching people to drive and driving mini-cabs at night in London. He then wandered off again, this time following the hippie trail across Europe and Asia, finally ending up in Australia where he became an Australian citizen and trained as a clinical hypnotherapist.
Eventually fate led him to Port Macquarie on the beautiful mid-north coast of New South Wales, where he firmly closed the gate behind him and has refused to move since. In 2004, he began writing short stories with some success in literary competitions, although none of his efforts could truthfully be called literature. A couple of years later, some say when he was horribly hungover, the spirit of a recently deceased little old lady took advantage of his condition and threatened to haunt him forever unless he wrote a book about her afterlife.view less