Suzette Standring interviews Ben Robertson, author of The Last Generation

Host Suzette Martinez Standring interviews author Ben Robertson about his young adult historical novel, The Last Generation.

Keene, NH - January 7, 2015 - (iNewswire)

Author Ben Robertson recently wrote the Amazon Kindle best-selling teen and young adult historical novel titled, The Last Generation. The book was released on September 4, 2014 by Menadena Publishing, an independent book publisher.

In December 2014, nationally syndicated columnist Suzette Standring interviewed Ben Robertson for  It’s All Write With Suzette, a show about writing on Cable Access TV in Milton, Massachussetts. The 30-minute interview covers a range of topics related to the inspiration and writing of The Last Generation, and can currently be viewed on YouTube at the link below.

About The Last Generation

First time novelist Ben Robertson delivers equal parts action and history, adventure and philosophy in this epic novel of the late the Middle Ages. The Last Generation is set in the Eastern Colony of Norse Greenland in the year 1501, at the onset of the Little Ice Age and the Reformation. The Vikings first settled in Greenland around the year 1000, but now these once free people have given up their freedom to serve a greedy bishop and his English cohorts, who see the opportunity to profit from the booming North Atlantic cod fish trade. 

When the bishop announces that the colony will relocate to Newfoundland, seventeen-year old Bridget Thorsdottir, who lives in the remotest part of the colony at Dyrnes, believes she and her family must flee Greenland . Bridget’s father, Thor, will not listen to her and refuses to abandon the land left to him by his Viking ancestors. Driven by nightmares of the encroaching ice, Bridget runs away with her step-brother Bjorn, hoping to find a new home and return at the end of summer. But when Bridget seeks help from her mother’s people, the nomadic Inuit living to the north, events at home force her back to the colony to confront the bishop and save her family. 

About Suzette Martinez Standring

Suzette Martinez Standring is syndicated with GateHouse Media for her spirituality columns. The Art of Opinion Writing: Insider Secrets from Top Op-Ed Columnists, an Amazon Kindle Bestseller, won First Place in The 2014 New England Book Festival. She also wrote the award winning The Art of Column Writing. A past president of The National Society of Newspaper Columnists, she hosts It’s All Write With Suzette, a cable TV show about writing. She took first place for on-line blogs in the 2013 NSNC competition.

Learn more at www.readsuzette.com

About Ben Robertson

Ben Robertson is an actor, author, and consultant who grew up in many places, including the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky, lower Manhattan, and New England. After studying at Fudan University in Shanghai following his senior year of high school, Ben studied Chinese in college and was an interpreter for CNN during the student protests in Tiananmen Square.

After several years working in business, Ben later became a professional actor under the tutelage of Penny Templeton and Harold Guskin in New York City.

The Last Generation is Ben's first published novel.

Ben currently lives in Keene, New Hampshire.

Learn more at www.benhrobertson.com



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Menadena Publishing
PO Box 591
Keene
NH 03431
United States

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Ben Robertson
6034994590

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