Author Visit: Ben Rehder

Did you miss our meeting with Ben Rehder? Aww, I’m sorry you missed it...it was another of our very successful author meeting!. Each author is so very different from the others! In this case, we all kind of suspended our normal reality and read this book about hunters and hunting,called Buck Fever, but we found that it was really about people, and it was quite funny! Ben must have had to suspend his normal reality, too, to meet with the bunch of us! He handled us like a pro! The sense of humor he expressed in the book serves him well in person!

We had lots of good questions for him, and he had fascinating, and sometimes funny, answers for us about his writing, how he got started in advertising, his long-term love of reading, his characters, and where he gets his ideas. He said he gets his characters’ names rather than personalities, from people he knows or meets. He liked Vernie’s name, especially, and even said he might use it in a book sometime So, we all have to keep reading Ben Rehder!. Some of us expressed surprise at how much we liked reading Buck Fever, myself included. Ben was not surprised that we didn’t expect to like the book or that we did like it! He said that when women hear about the book, they tend to expect their husbands to read it rather than to read it themselves. One of the many frustrations of being a writer. Ben has published 4 more books about the same characters in various other mystery adventures. He wouldn’t give too much away, but he did describe the books a little, and they all sound good!

Everyone I talked with had a great time reading Buck Fever and meeting the author!