BOOKS, STORIES AND OTHER THINGS
This website was established to tell the world about a book we just published, and others we are working on. In addition to marketing the author's books, Benbranch Company performs some environmental services on contract with the US Fish & Wildlife Service for whom the author worked for over 30 years.
The current series of books began as one of the authors other hobbies - model railroading. The author and his teen-age associates constructed an extensive mountain layout based on mid 20th century equipment and characters. Based on this layout, the boys made up stories about people and events which inspired the book.
TABLE MOUNTAIN STORIES
The Rock is a story about Jimmy-Luke (JL) Douglas and his best friend Dennis Johnson, traveling with their Boy Scout troop to a remote area of Montana for a week long camping adventure.
At 11 years old, JL is an outcast – frail and immature with an overactive imagination that often gets him in trouble. Although Dennis steps in time and again as his guide and protector, JL is determined to make his own way, and sees this scouting adventure as the perfect opportunity.
Embarking on an intimidating survival challenge to earn a badge, JL sets off to complete a solo overnight camping experience a half mile away from the troop. As JL tries to set up his tent, a violent storm blows it away into a nearby river. JL is forced to take refuge at the entrance of an old abandoned mansion.
Exhausted , hysterical and entangled in a maze of fear and imagination, the boy slips into a dream world where the mountain (Mr. Rock) speaks to him through the medium of the house. Mr. Rock tells him of a family feud that spans five generations, involving adventure, love, jealousy, hate and murder.
As JL wakes up the next morning, Mr. Rock has left him with the haunting message that he is now part of the story. This haunting message leads JL, his friend and family on a quest into Canada to find JL's place in the family and the adventure.
THE ROCK (ISBN 978-1-4343-9477-4) is available through the publisher, Author House at www.authorhouse.com or through several on line book stores.
NEW!! THE ROCK IS NOW AVAILABLE IN DIGITAL FORMAT FROM BARNES & NOBLE, AMAZON AND OTHER ON LINE SOURCES!
Just click on the Amazon or Barnes & Noble link below and it will take you directly to the book. Locally the book may be purchased from:
Whistlin' Dixie, Folkston, GA
The Charlton County Library, Folkston, GA
The Train Depot Museum, Folkston, GA
The Okefenokee Heritage Center, Waycross, GA
Read Me Again Books, 506 Elizabeth St., Waycross, GA
The author, Ron Phernetton (see contact page.)
Author: Ronald A. Phernetton
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 978-1-4343-9477-4
. . . to be WORTHY: The author is currently working on a sequel to The Rock. Dennis Johnson and Jimmy-Luke are looking forward to a joyful Christmas vacation together. The McDougall and Johnson families are sending Dennis by train from Minot, North Dakota to Cedar Valley, Montana to spend two weeks with his best friend. While Dennis is en route to Montana, Jimmy-Luke is kidnapped and is being held in an old abandoned coal mine under Table Mountain. Dennis tackles some of his personal problems while he and the McDougall family search for Jimmy-Luke. The story title was to be KIDNAPPED, but as the story developed the new name seemed more appropiate.
WORTHY has been sent to the proof reader and will be published soon. It will be available with hard and soft cover and digital format.
COLLIE ADVENTURE STORIES
The Adventures of Stephen Collie: One of the authors associates is 
working on his own series of stories. His first book, The Adventures of Stephen Collie, is a WW II story about a boy and his two cats. Twelve year old Steve, who lives in London, England is being sent by his mother to Tennessee to escape the constant bombing of London. The story has a dual focus, Steve's adventures and the cats' adventures.
Coming EVENTS: