Suzette Standring Interviews Ben Robertson, Author of the Last Generation

Keene, NH, January 7, 2015 (Newswire.com) - ​​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.

I really enjoyed this book... a great new novel. I thought it was really fascinating.

Suzette Martinez Standring, Television host

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 strategy consultant, with his company Menadena Consulting. In 2014, Ben published The Last Generation, an Amazon best-selling young adult historical novel about the Greenland Norse. As an actor, Ben is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and won the New Hampshire Film Festival award for Best NH Performance.

Ben worked in banking and finance for over twenty years, starting his career at The Chase Manhattan Bank and later working in private equity, venture capital, buy-side stock research at a leading small-cap value asset management firm, and sell-side research in Taipei, where he was at ABN Amro Asia, Taiwan’s best equities research team as ranked by Institutional Investor. Ben was a founding partner and CFO of Fuel Bio, which at the time was the largest biodiesel manufacturing facility on the East Coast.

Ben received his MBA from University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he was selected for the Kauffman Internship Program, funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, and led the first place winning team in the Edward L. Kaplan New Venture Challenge. Ben studied Chinese at Northfield Mount Hermon School, Fudan University, Beijing Normal University, and Wesleyan University, where he received a BA in East Asian Studies.

Ben serves as treasurer on the board of the Monadnock International Film Festival and is a screenplay competition judge and social media coordinator for the New Hampshire Film Festival.

Ben lives and works in Keene, New Hampshire.

Learn more at benrobertson.net

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