Meet Kenneth Fenter at Art and the Vineyard Festival July 3&4 In Eugene

     Come see me at Alton Baker Park in Eugene July 3 and 4 at the Oregon Author Table at the 14th annual Art & Vineyard Festival in Eugene. I'll be there along with 34 Oregon Authors with The Ruin, The Bee Tree and Gaijin! Gaijin! Third Edition. I'm really excited to be back in home territory to hopefully see old friends and maybe meet a few new ones. My shift is from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. both days. There will be a variety of authors there with their books and also there will be a poets corner on Sunday afternoon. I'm honored to be there among some of Oregon's most respected authors. Really looking forward to in.
     My books are already in the Eugene Public Library and the Springfield Public Library and when I dropped of The Bee Tree on Wednesday, May 25, The Ruin was checked out that day. I was glad that it was being circulated regularly over there.
     When we lived in Springfield up until 2004, the Art and & Vineyard Festival was a must go event culminated by the fireworks festival at Autzen stadium. On the fourth we quit in time for everyone to mosey on over for a picnic and seating in preparation for the fireworks. 
     Later in the summer I'll also be at the Lane County Fair for three days on the 17, 18, and 19. More on that later. The times on my shifts at the fair are currently set for 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. all three days. 
     For both events watch the newspaper and supplements for a complete listing of authors, times, and sampling of books that will be featured. This summer is shaping up to be an exciting season for the very active Oregon writing and publishing colony.

The Bee Tree, Satisfaction Guaranteed Now Available on Nook

     Arborwood Press is proud to announce that we have joined independent publishers everywhere in publishing our books with Barnes and Noble on the Nook platform. Of course they are also on the Kindle as in the past. 


     E-readers now have a choice: the Kindle from Amazon, the Nook, including the new Color Nook tablet, or the older versions, as well as the IPad and Zoom to enjoy our editions of The Bee Tree, The Ruin, Gaijin! Gaijin! Pee Up a Tree, and Satisfaction Guaranteed: In Chicago. 


     The IPad, Nook Tablet, Zoom, all have aps to run each other's formats. Download them free from either Barns and Noble or Amazon and purchase which ever version you prefer to support. 


     In our case and I suppose most of the publishers we have set the same price and we have uploaded the same file to be converted to the Kindle platform and to the Nook platform.


     I purchased an IPad for my wife for her birthday. I got to see how our Kindle file as well as EPUB files look on it. They were very pleasing, if I say so myself. I have to say it is very enjoyable to read a book on the electronic reader. I still like the feel of a paper book, but for my wife whose hands are now having trouble holding a book, to be able to prop the e-book and touch the screen, is a boon.


Enjoy,
Kenneth Fenter

The Bee Tree officially launched on Cinco de Mayo

“The Bee Tree is a terrific mix of promising adventure and cliff-hanging danger. Social and emotional maturation arise out of friendship and survival. You will be informed and entertained by this multi-cultural, multi-generational narrative.” Jim Henson, LCSW, author of Pee Up a Tree: A Mental Health Memoir 

I asked my friend Jim Henson who can say more in the fewest words of any one I know to sum up my new novel The Bee Tree for me.

The paragraph above is what he came up with. He has been with this project since it was basically a short story consisting only of the main conflict of the story. The novel stripped of the sub plots.

Because of the cross cultural aspect of this story, it is fitting that it is now available on Amazon, Create Space, or Arborwoodpress beginng on May 5, Cinco de Mayo. A large component in the story is the relationship between Cliff, and his nemisis Hector and his growing friendship with Angelina Martinez. I hope you will enjoy this new chapter in the life of Clifton Kelly.

The Bee Tree is available in Kindle and print editions.

Kenneth Fenter

The Bee Tree Available now for Kindle

It's finished! Minutes ago I uploaded the finished novel to Amazon for the Kindle. The print edition proof is winging it's way across the country as I write this. It should arrive on Tuesday. If all is well It will be available the minute I push the "approve" button. The awesome cover is the handiwork of graphic designer Allison Rogers here in Bend. I worked with her at the High Desert Museum from 2006 to 2008 when I stopped taking photos there to devote full time on The Ruin. I admired the meticulous work she and the design team there did with the graphics they did for the Museum. She took my daughter Janelle's quilt rendering of the cliff dwelling and incorporated it into the core theme of The Bee Tree. The thing I admired about the design team at the Museum was the way their minds worked. Totally different than mine. They see the world on such a different level than the rest of us.
I am pleased to have this story launched. I hope that you like it. Cliff and Hector move their relationship forward on a more positive level. Angelina becomes a major force in Cliff's life. A character introduced in the Ruin returns in a more sinister role to threaten the growing friendship between Cliff and Angelina. Don't want to give it away.
Both book and Kindle will be up on Amazon in a day or two and are available on our website as soon as I can get the page functioning.

My best to everyone.
Kenneth Fenter