ABOUT G.F. SHERIDAN.

G.F. Sheridan was born on a dark and stormy, cold and wintry night in1956. The scene was fittingly and fleetingly lit by powerful and blinding flashes of lightning, almost immediately followed by the deafening rapid cannon-fire explosions of thunder. His sweat soaked and red-faced mother glanced down upon her new-born son for the first time with a gentle, smiling and tender look, and then screamed!

Over the next several years G.F. grew and grew until he was enrolled into a brand new High School at St. Ives in Sydney, N.S.W., which looked decidedly second-hand when he left it seven years later. The teaching staff rejoiced and there was much drinking, merriment and dancing in the Quadrangle when G.F. left the grounds for the last time.

G.F then ventured out into the big wide world in search of fame and fortune, or at least gainful employment. Gainful employment he found as a N.S.W. public servant for five and a half years, a self-employed legal clerk working for Solicitors for 19 years and a Lawnmower/ Gardener for ten years until he sacked himself and headed south of the border into Victoria in search of a new life with his woman.

The people of New South Wales rejoiced and there was much drinking, merriment and dancing in the streets. The people of Victoria, however, did not. There was much drinking but no merriment or dancing, just a resoundingly sullen, oppressive and malevolent silence.

G.F. now lurks, lives, writes and hides in the hills above a generally quiet coastal fishing and tourist village called Lakes Entrance. If you ever find yourself down that way and stop in to a pub or one of the other places where the locals gather to drink and you offered to buy them some they may regale you with many tales of sightings of a large hairy creature wandering the hills above the town on nights of the full moon shaking its fist and roaring and howling at that moon, and other strange behaviours. Some of those tales aren’t true.

His first book, ‘Reach for Mars’ has just been published and can be viewed along with the first chapter of the soon to be published sequel, ‘We are Martian!’ at: http://www.authorgfsheridan.com.