WRITING & BOOKS
GEFFREY VON GERLACH believes in the experience of travel and feels that the impressions one gathers while on the move in search of romantic destinations, real or imagined, are critical to working as a writer.
He has three novels to his credit. GHOSTPOINTS is a story of adventure, glamour and redemption, in which a once famous man is able to relive his past by employing thirteen mystical points of Acupuncture. BEEHIVE ARIZONA, a supernatural mystery is set in a frighteningly “perfect” Arizona mining town, and HEXE Witches, Warriors, Magic and Murder is a 700 page saga rife with witchcraft and intrigue. DEATHBED KISSES, a collection of short stories expressing a humourous and darker side of love has recently been published.
HEY THERE…..I just finished writing a new book, “Nobody Wants to be the Girl Anymore: Rediscovering the Power of the Female Yin”, on the use of the Taoist Yin and Yang to help writers build characters and define their conflicts and resolutions. Exciting: I have also been interviewed about these concepts for “ the storytelling for social profit summits”. If you like, you can catch the interview at http://everythingstory.org/geffrey_interview . You can also get your own copy of my book at http://www.createspace.com/6873669
EDUCATION
Rhode Island School of Design, B.F.A. in Fine Art and Illustration; The Royal Academy, London; Orson Welles Film School, Boston; Phoenix Institute of Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture, MA. LAc. Southwest Institute of Healing Arts; Certified Life Coach.
PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT
Art Director, Designer for British Vogue, London: American Home Magazine, New York; Seventeen Magazine, New York; Men’s Wear Magazine, Fairchild Publications, New York; GQ Magazine, New York; Store Magazine, the National Retail Merchants Association, New York; Showcase Magazine, the Luggage and Leather Goods Association, New York; Bloomingdales Department Store, New York; California Food Magazine, Los Angeles; Broadway Southwest Department Stores, Arizona; Joseph Magnin Stores, San Francisco; Melissa Foods, Los Angeles; Genre Magazine, Los Angeles; Creative Director for Mediatrends Advertising; Design for Disney.
MUSIC INDUSTRY
Designer for Ria Images, Los Angeles. Clients include: Barry Manilow, Aretha Franklin, Sheena Easton, Huey Lewis and the News, Melissa Manchester, Billy Idol, Charlie Sexton, Cheap Trick and Diana Ross.