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Jan 01, 1962 62 years old
Novelist and poet
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About Geoffrey Mcskimming
- Geoffrey McSkimming (born 1 January 1962) is a children's novelist and poet.
- He is the author of the 19 volume Cairo Jim chronicles and Jocelyn Osgood jaunts and the Phyllis Wong series of mystery novels.
- He has also published three volumes of poetry. McSkimming was born in Sydney, Australia.
- To write his Cairo Jim stories, he travelled to Egypt, Peru, Tanzania (including Zanzibar), Greece, Mexico, Turkey, Italy and Singapore and other locations.
- He is much in demand for author talks, and appears with his wife, the magician Sue-Anne Webster, to promote the Phyllis Wong mysteries series. Geoffrey McSkimming has published more than fifty short stories in magazines and has contributed verse to various poetry anthologies.
- He narrated the Cairo Jim chronicles as audio books for Bolinda Publishing.
- The audio version of his book of verse, Ogre in a Toga and Other Perverse Verses, was shortlisted in the Audie Awards (US) in 2008.
- He wrote five character tours which were performed in the galleries at the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney, Australia, from 2000 through 2013.
- In June 2006 Geoffrey McSkimming undertook an author tour of the UK for Walker Books, who released ten titles in the Cairo Jim series in the UK. Geoffrey McSkimming's 24th novel, Phyllis Wong and the Vanishing Emeralds, was published in 2018 by 9 Diamonds Press.
- He is currently writing the seventh story in the Phyllis Wong Time Detective mysteries series, Phyllis Wong and the Crumpled Stranger, which will be published in 2020. All titles in the Cairo Jim chronicles are now e-published by 9 Diamonds Press, and new print editions of the backlist are forthcoming, starting in 2019.
- A completely new Cairo Jim novel will appear in 2020. Geoffrey McSkimming is represented by Curtis Brown Literary Agency, London.
