Don Bendell, a four-time primary best-selling creator, would be the featured creator throughout the VFW Put up 4061’s month-to-month Meet the Writer evening from 5-7 p.m. Thursday at 215 N. Cottonwood.
Bendell is a four-time No. 1 best-selling creator whose type has been likened to Louis L’Amour and Zane Gray, a 100% disabled Inexperienced Beret Vietnam veteran and Particular Forces captain, and a 1995 inductee into the Worldwide Karate and Kickboxing Corridor of Fame and retired Grandmaster Teacher in 5 Martial Arts.
Bendell and his spouse personal the Strongheart Ranch south of Florence, named for his No. 1 best-selling western. Most of his books have been printed by Berkley/Penguin-Random Home, with over 3,000,000 copies of his 32 books in print worldwide. In 2011, his writer nominated him for the Pulitzer Prize for his hardcover memoir Tracks of Hope . . . a Fashionable Day Western. Now, most of his books have been republished by Talking Volumes Publishing, LLC https://speakingvolumes.us/ and shortly will even be on Audiobook.
He has a Grasp’s Diploma in Enterprise Management from the Ken Blanchard School of Enterprise, Grand Canyon College in Phoenix, AZ, and a Bachelor of Science in Enterprise from Colorado Christian College. He has six grown youngsters, many grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Bendell is married to Dr. Janet Bendell, a social psychologist and former US Military Captain herself and Vietnam-era veteran who served in Germany throughout the Vietnam Warfare with the eighth Infantry Division. Two of his 4 sons are additionally 100% disabled retired Inexperienced Beret fight veterans with a number of excursions in Iraq and Afghanistan. They grew up in Fremont County. Though not serving in warfare, his oldest daughter, Brooke Bendell Starek, risked her life for a number of years in India and Africa as a Christian Missionary changing Muslims into Christians.
Bendell additionally was very energetic within the movement image enterprise and hopes to land movie offers on a few of his books. He moved to Cañon Metropolis in 1982 and has been in Fremont County since then. He tries to trip his horse, Jubilee, over each foot of floor he writes about.
One of many issues Bendell needs to talk about is his newest novel, Previous Troopers By no means Die, a semi-autobiographical story which takes place throughout Fremont, Custer, Pueblo, and El Paso counties, the Sangre De Cristo Mountain vary, Pike’s Peak, Pueblo Reservoir, and the Mideast. It’s a modern-day thriller about terrorists who need to blow up the Royal Gorge Bridge with a backpack nuclear bomb.
He will probably be talking and signing books on the VFW Put up 4061, the place he’s a Life Member, from 5-7 p.m. Thursday at 215 N. Cottonwood. The occasion is free and open to the general public, and sandwiches, chips and dessert will probably be offered by the VFW Auxiliary.
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