Geoff Hoff has been a creative writer, an actor, an acting teacher, a standup comic and a popular blogger. He studies and writes about the process of creativity and the process of marketing and teaches creative writing and marketing courses on the Internet. His first published book, Weeping Willow: Welcome to River Bend, written with Steve Mancini, started out as an online satirical serial that garnered fans world-wide. He and Steve have been called "gently subversive" by a fan, a description they both find apt.Geoff grew up in a town in Northern New Jersey that no longer exists, graduated from a college in Spokane, Washington that no longer exists and has learned to distrust permanence.