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Benjamin King

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Born

in Jamestown, Tennessee, The United States

Website

http://read-watch-listen.info/read.html#.U0WG87...

Genre

Mystery, Biography, Historical Fiction

Influences

James Lee Burke, Larry McMurtry, Conrad Richter, Max Brand, Robert Hei ...more

Member Since

April 2014

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Benjamin King was a storyteller from his childhood. "Benny has a good imagination," was an excuse for what his parents suspected might be a pack of lies. A product of the JFK era, he volunteered for duty in Vietnam and was twice decorated. Straight English college studies were interrupted by a musical career that spanned a couple of decades, and then chainsaw sculpting took over and Benjamin was added to the roster of Masters of the Chainsaw (a prestigious booking agency in Pennsylvania.) All the while he read every scrap of print he could discover. He also wrote - songs, short stories, magazine articles - finally self-publishing a short story volume and giving a future fantasy novel to a shark under the name Ben King.
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The HONEST Fifteen Minutes of Fame

I'm new to the Ebook scene. I had written a book about three years ago and decided to throw it away, but my wife liked it and persuaded me to polish it a little and have it published. It's a regional piece -set in Tennessee and Kentucky - and the first few people that read it must have been from that area because they went crazy over it. I put it on Amazon's KDP select and gave away a thousand cop Read more of this blog post »

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	When a Lady Lies really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mirror Don't Lie: A Shifty Bill Richards Story it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars