Geoffrey Cameron Fuller
Geoffrey Cameron Fuller has been a writer-editor in West Virginia for over 30 years. He’s written articles for many literary and commercial magazines, from Appalachian Heritage to Dirt Bike magazine. In 2012, he placed first nationally in Writer’s Digest 7th Annual Popular Fiction Writing competition for “Figure-Ground: Proof and Circumstance.”
Along the way, he was the only person in West Virginia awarded prestigious writing fellowships by the West Virginia Commission on the Arts in all three prose categories: fiction, nonfiction, and memoir. He has taught writing privately and conducted workshops at conferences for nearly 30 years.
Author
As a book writer, he is the award-winning author of Full Bone Moon, the co-author of 3 books (The Savage Murder of Skylar Neese, Pretty Little Killers, and The WVU Coed Murders), and his fiction and nonfiction has appeared in 17 others.
In 2014 Fuller co-wrote The Savage Murder of Skylar Neese (#12 on the New York Times bestselling list) and the much more comprehensive Pretty Little Killers about the 2012 murder of Skylar Neese in Morgantown. Those books led to appearances on many television programs, including Dateline, 20/20, and I Killed My BFF.
Nonfiction
The WVU Coed Murders: Who Killed Mared and Karen? Geoffrey C. Fuller and S. James McLaughlin. The History Press, Charleston, South Carolina. To be released in early September, 2021.
In January of 1970, two WVU freshmen, Mared Malarik and Karen Ferrell, disappeared while hitchhiking and were found ten miles south of Morgantown, headless. The public thought state police had too few suspects, but they actually found far too many. The full story of one of the most sensational crimes in West Virginia’s history.
Daleen Berry and Geoffrey C. Fuller. BenBella Kindle Edition. New York Times bestseller. 2014.
Pretty Little Killers: The Truth Behind the Savage Murder of Skylar Neese
The full story of the murder of three high school besties, one murdered by the other two.
Daleen Berry and Geoffrey C. Fuller, BenBella Books, Dallas, TX. 2014.
The Savage Murder of Skylar Neese: The Truth Behind the Headlines
The story of the murder of Skylar Neese by her two best friends, Shelia Eddy and Rachel Shoaf. Pretrial, preliminary book.
Short Fiction
Contains “Threnody,” by G. Cameron and Karin Fuller.
Fed from the Blade: Tales and Poems from the Mountains
Contains “Splinters” by G. Cameron Fuller.
Legends of the Mountain State: Ghostly Tales from the State of West Virginia
Contains “Afterdamp” by G. Cameron Fuller.
Michael Knost, Ed. Woodland Press, Chapmanville, WV. 2010.
Legends of the Mountain State: Ghostly Tales from the State of West Virginia IV
Contains “Spiny Ridge” by G. Cameron Fuller.
A collection of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from writers across the state.
Chris Kuell, Ed. West Virginia Roundtable. 2006
Mountain Voices: Illuminating the Character of West Virginia
Contains “Cheap Is How I feel” and “This Is the Life” by G. Cameron Fuller.
CPrize-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poems from the statewide writers’ organization West Virginia Writers, Inc., 1996-2006.
West Virginia Writers, Inc. 2008
Contains “Circle’s Edge,” a memoir by Geoffrey C. Fuller, and “Caught in the Net,” an excerpt from an eponymous novel by G. Cameron Fuller.
Chapters: Nonfiction
James M. Gifford and Edwina Pendarvis, Eds. Jesse Stuart Foundation. 2016.
Appalachian Murders & Mysteries
Contains the true crime “A Parade of Horribles: The WVU Coed Murders” by Geoffrey C. Fuller and the true crime “Third Wheel” by Daleen Berry and Geoffrey C. Fuller.
Kelly Nickell, Ed.
The Writer’s Digest Writing Clinic: Expert help for improving your work
Contains “Raising the Stakes” by Geoffrey C. Fuller.
Bridging the Gap: College Reading: Annotated Instructor’s Edition. Brenda D. Smith, Ed. Longman Publishing New York, San Francisco, Boston. 2003. Newer editions available.
Contains “A Short Course in Short-Short Fiction“ by Geoff Fuller and Pamelyn Casto.
Noted authors of horror fiction provide tips and techniques for writing horror. The collection was awarded the 2009 Bram Stoker award and the 2009 Black Quill editor’s choice award for nonfiction.
Michael Knost, Ed. Woodland Press, Chapmanville, WV. 2009.
Contains “A Claustrophobic in a Dark Room: Setting in Horror Fiction” by Geoffrey C. Fuller.
Noted authors of science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction offer tools and techniques for writers to enhance their craft.
Michael Knost, Ed. Seventh Star Press, 2013.
Writer’s Workshop of Science Fiction & Fantasy
Contains “How Alien the Alien” by Geoffrey C. Fuller.
Novel
Woodland Press, Chapmanville, WV. 2011.
Crime thriller by Geoffrey C. Fuller.
As Editor
Fuller has worked on over 70 published books, mostly nonfiction.
Podcasts
Mared & Karen: The WVU Coed Murders, series, produced by J. Kendall Perkinson and S. James McLaughlin. Kromatic Media.