OLLI Authors: Fiction

Mary Anne Benedetto -
Never Say Perfect
Published: 2012
Publisher: A Writer’s Presence, LLC through CreateSpace
Available for purchase at Amazon, Barnes & Noble (ebook available)
Eyelash
Published: 2006
Publisher: The Troy Book Makers
Available for Purchase from: Amazon (ebook) and T.B.M Books
Genre: Fiction
Author’s Web Website: awriterspresence.com
Author's Blog: maryannebenedetto.blogspot.com
Written: When employed as an accountant/lease administrator for a commercial property management firm
Author’s Note: I teach memoir writing classes and work with individual clients to capture their life stories for the benefit of future generations.
OLLI Affiliation: OLLI at Coastal Carolina University (Member/Teacher)

Bill Boudreau - (4 titles).
Redemption Island ~ An Iraq Veteran’s Journey
Published: 2012 by CreateSpace
Genre: General Fiction
Moments in Time
Published: 2010 by CreateSpace
Genre: General Fiction – Short Stories
Author’s Note: Moments in Time is a collection of 14 short stories dealing with children’s, teenagers’ and adults’ conflicts and resolutions—some good and some bad.
Disharmony in Paradise
Published: 2010 by CreateSpace
Genre: General Fiction
Author’s Note: Disharmony in Paradise is a novella in which a middle-aged man persuades his wife to go on a three-mast sail ship cruise in the Caribbean, island hopping, hoping to mend his troubled marriage.
Olsegon: Wolfwood Forest and Massacre Island
Published: 2006
Publisher: Booklocker, Bangor, Maine
Author’s Note: Olsegon is a Nova Scotia two-mystery novel. The setting is early 1950s. Wolfwood Forest is a story of the search for a kidnapped 14-month-old boy. Massacre Island traces the investigation of the murder of 17-year-old Lisa Surette.
Author’s Websites:www.billboudreau.com
Author's Blog: www.billboudreau.com/blog.html
All books available for Purchase on Amazon
All Titles Written: After retirement in 2000
OLLI Affiliation: Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma

Sy Brandon -
Life Is A Hammock: “mewsings” of a traveling cat
Published: 2010
Publisher: Co-op Press
Available for Purchase from: http://www.lulu.com/
Genre: Fiction – Pets – Cats
Author's Website:http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/life-is-a-hammock/12055872
Author's Blog:http://lifeisahammock.blogspot.com/
Written: After taking retirement
Authors Note: This book is written in the voice Stormy the cat and contains photo cartoons. Proceeds from sales go to our local humane society.
OLLI Affiliation: Yavapai College OLLI of Sedona and the Verde Valley (Member & Facilitator)

Bill Bruehl -
The Wally Weet Stories 
Published: 2005 by Book Surge LLC Available for Purchase from Amazon
Genre: Short Story, Fiction 
Website: http://billbruehl.homestead.com/HomePage.html
Written:
Authors Note: The Wally Weet Stories are a collection of 12 stories chronicling the coming of age of a lad growing up in a petit bourgeois Catholic family in Pennsylvania during the 1930's and 40's.
OLLI Affiliation: Clemson University OLLI in Clemson SC. Member/Instructor

Jay P. Cooper -
Hammurabi's Dagger
Published: December 15, 2012
Publisher: Seaking Press
Available for Purchase from: Amazon
Genre: Fiction / Time-Travel
Web Presence: Orange County Register "Writer's visions are coincidental to character's"
Written: In retirement
Authors Note: Overview: A fast-moving, time-travelling adventure with an historical bent that takes place over a three-week period, and is based on the premise that extraordinary things can happen to ordinary people.
OLLI Affiliation: OLLI at Univ. of California, Irvine. Member and Instructor. In addition, Jay is a volunteer subject at MIND MATTERS, the institute for memory impairments and neurological disorders at the Univ. of
California Irvine.

Judi Culbertson -
A Novel Death
Published: 2011
Publisher: Avalon Publishers
Available for Purchase from: Amazon, Barnes & Noble
Genre: Mystery Novel, Suspense
Website: judiculbertson.net
OLLI Affiliation: Stony Brook University (Member & Instructor)

Lyla Garner (pen name of Lila Marie Niemann Garner) -
A Plausible Diversion
Published: 2011 by Prairie Muse
Available for purchase from: Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com (Also available in ebook format).
Genre: Romance/Women’s Fiction
Author’s Web Link: www.lylagarner.com
Written: After retiring
Author’s note: I’m a dedicated genealogist and the book touches on genealogy but is essentially about family turmoil and triumph. I teach some genealogy classes.
OLLI Affiliation: University of Nebraska-Lincoln OLLI (member)

Dixie Guill Golden -
Unfinished Conversations
Published: 2012
Published in Trade paperback and available at Amazon,
Available for purchase from: Amazon as a Kindle e-book, Barnes and Noble and other Bookstores
Genre: Fiction.
Website: "Golden Times" discusses writing, philosophy, consciousness, ethics, language and life for Seniors daily at dixiegolden.blogspot.com.
Written: After retirement,
Authors Note: I decided to write poems and novels after a career of teaching others to do that. I still mentor other OLLI writers who take my writing classes.
"Wingwalking: Poems" is available from the author.
OLLI Affiliation: OLLI at the University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL (Member & Instructor in Writing, Poetry and other topics of interest.)

Ruth Fisher Goodman (Translator) -
Yeshiva Boy: A Story of Piety and Young Love written by Jacob Dineson
Published by E-Booktime, 2012
Available for purchase from: from Amazon
The Jewish Pope: A Yiddish Tale written by Yudel Mark
Publisher: Fithian Press 2006
Genre: Fiction
Available for purchase from: Amazon
Author's Note:
OLLI Affiliation: OLLI at Delaware

Ralph D. Hartman -
Trial By Choice
Published: 2007 by iUNIVERSE, Inc. 
Available for Purchase from Amazon
Genre: Fiction 
Website:
Written:
Authors Note:
OLLI Affiliation:Carnegie Mellon Osher Institute. Member/Instructor

Jeanne Kern (Pen name: Jeanne Bruce) –
Trips and Whales and Puppy Dog Tales
Published: 2005
Publisher: iUniverse
Available for Purchase from: Amazon and via book store order
Genre: Romance Novel
Author's Web Links: Amazon
Written: In retirement
Authors Note: As a retiree and a newcomer to Nebraska, OLLI was a godsend, and the writing classes gave me the push to break out the research I’d done for the book and re-write it. A trip to whale-watch in Baja California, Mexico, convinced me it was the perfect setting for a romance novel.
OLLI Affiliation: OLLI at UNL (University of Nebraska) (Member and Teacher)

Thomas Kochansky (2 titles under Historical Fiction. 1 title under Educational Books)
Man of Action - Peter's Recollection of the Christ.
Published: 2003:
Tribune - A Story of Early Christianity
Published:2005
Published by PublishAmerica
Available for Purchase from Amazon
Genre: Historical Fiction
Website: http://www.growlinggrizzly.com/
Written: Books written since taking retirement.
Authors Note:
OLLI Affiliation: OLLI-USF at Tampa, Florida. (Member & Teacher)

Carol Leonard SeCoy -
The Bag Lady War
Published: 2010
Publisher: iUniverse
Genre: Fiction / Satire.
Available: Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
Website: carolsecoy.com
Web Links: Carol Leonard Secoy Reads From The Bag Lady Wars
Written: In retirement, with two more books to follow.
Authors Note: The story dandles the reader between tears and laughter as three elderly widows take on the “system.” It is a now screenplay awaiting option, and has generated reviews by scores of book clubs.
OLLI Affiliation: OLLI at Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon

Vincent R. Malatesta -
The Abandoned Mill
Published: 2010 by Lulu.com
Lulu.com
Available for Purchase from: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Lulu.com
Genre: Fiction-Mystery-Supernatural and Paranormal.
Author's Web Links:
Website:
Written: After taking retirement
Author's note
'I teach classes in Religion, History, Supernatural and Paranormal.'
OLLI Affiliation: OLLI at Kennesaw State University. (Member & Teacher)

John Charles Miller -
Citrus White Gold (An Alternate History Novel of Citrus County, Florida)
Published: 2011
Publisher: CreateSpace
Available for Purchase from: CreateSpace or from Amazon
Genre: Speculative Fiction -- Science Fiction -- Alternate History
Author's Web Links: Website: quarkspacetravel.com
Written: After retirement
Author's note I teach a course called "Geology for Travelers"
OLLI Affiliation: OLLI-USF at Tampa, Florida (Instructor)

Nancy H. Payne -
Phoenix / Maine
Published: 2003 by Rathaldron Publications. Available for Purchase from Amazon & Sagebrush Valley Book Shoppe at antiqbook.com (antiqbook.com ref #: 090326006)
Genre: Fiction 
Website:
Written: After retiring from the Maine Legislature
Authors Note:
OLLI Affiliation: OLLI at the University of Southern Maine. Member/Instructor

Richard Schwirian - Pen name: Richard Patton -
Neophyte Warrior (Series)
Book 1: 2002 - His Majesty's Envoy
Book 2: 2002 - The Reluctant Commander
Book 3: 2003 - The Lion's Apprentice
Book 4: 2004 - Massacre at the Forks
Book 5: 2005 - Outrageous Interlude
Published by Zumayapublications.com.
Available for Purchase from Amazon
Genre: Historical Fiction
Website: Zumayapublications.com (Go to website and do a search on "Richard Patton.") 
Written:
Authors Note: The Neophyte Warrior series chronicles the adventures, romances and growing pains of a young militia Major named George Washington during the French and Indian War. All books are written under the pen name Richard Patton. 
For reviews of all five books, go to: http://www.readerviews.com/genre_f_Historical-2006.html
OLLI Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon Osher Institute